"Energiewende" is Germany's energy transition policy, marking a shift from coal and nuclear towards green power sources. The project has divided citizens over rising costs and negligible benefits for ...

Germany's energy revolution has become the perennial punching bag of American energy policy. In particular, American pundits have lampooned German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to phase out the ...

For two decades, Germany has tried to steer its energy system from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This strategy, called Energiewende, is widely derided in the United States. It’s seen as expensive, ...

The Energiewende (energy transition) is an internationally recognised example of Germans’ love for compound nouns, where two previously unconnected words are joined at the hip. It conveys a package of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about energy and the environment. Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, ...

In the American press, there has been much discussion of Germany’s Energiewende—a plan that not only aims for a nearly carbon-free economy by 2050, but also seeks to achieve this ambitious goal with ...

In 2015, Germany added more renewable power than ever before, but now the government is putting strict limits on future renewables growth. As Germany’s Energiewende slows, some surprising competitors ...

Europe is slowly reducing its dependancy on fossil fuels. A report co-published by Ember and Agora Energiewende, two think tanks focused on clean energy, has revealed that the continent generated more ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Gillian Tett writes (“Shale is lighting up a new era of American optimism”, October 10) that shale gas ...

The XL pipeline’s south leg has been fixed, but the north leg is on hold — even while the EPA makes proposals that effectively promote natural gas. Meanwhile, Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition ...

The Energiewende (energy transition) is an internationally recognised example of Germans’ love for compound nouns, where two previously unconnected words are joined at the hip. It conveys a package of ...