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OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
Germany’s seaports are facing a crisis. Their freight traffic volumes have been decreasing for years, and last year they dropped to levels not seen in two decades.
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 26 April, the Bundestag passed an amendment to the Climate Change Act (German: Klimaschutzgesetz), which sets out the objectives and mechanisms of Germany’s climate policy; the ruling SPD-Green-FDP coalition voted in favour of it.…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 26 April, the Bundesrat approved the amendment to the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz), which the Bundestag had adopted two weeks earlier. The main part of this amendment was the regulation for financing the establishment…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
Germany has launched the implementation of a new, innovative programme to support the decarbonisation of its energy-intensive industries. The use of the so-called carbon contracts for difference will, for the first time, make it possible…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
The German electric car market has seen a rapid growth over the past few years, with the country becoming the undisputed electromobility leader in Europe. This success has largely been possible thanks to generous subsidies for electric…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 7 March, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) announced a third extension of the trusteeship over Rosneft Deutschland (RND) and RN Refining & Marketing (RNRM), this time until 10 September.
Analyses |
| Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Michał Kędzierski
On 4 March, the meeting of the EU Energy Council addressed the issue of the German gas storage levy (Gasspeicherumlage) and the need for greater coordination at the European level as requested by delegations from Austria, the Czech…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
It took many weeks of negotiations for the leaders of the SPD-Greens-FDP coalition to reach a compromise on the strategy for building new power plants, which are intended to complement renewable energy sources (RESs) and enable the final…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 19 December 2023, Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), a German state-controlled gas company, signed a long-term contract with the Norwegian Equinor energy company to supply 111 TWh of gas annually in the period from 2024 to 2034 (which…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 10 November the Bundestag adopted an amendment to the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz, EnWG), a crucial part of which were regulations regarding the planning and approval of the so-called core hydrogen network (Wasserstoff…