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| Michał Kędzierski
On 22 October, Germany’s regulatory authority, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA), granted final approval for the draft of the proposed hydrogen core network (Wasserstoff-Kernnetz). This network will establish the…
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| Michał Kędzierski, Aleksandra Kozaczyńska
On 10 September, Volkswagen’s executive body terminated the collective labour agreements previously signed with the IG Metall trade union, affecting employees at VW car manufacturing facilities in Germany. This decision enables the company…
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| Michał Kędzierski
On 24 July, the German government adopted a strategy regarding the import of hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives (German: Importstrategie für Wasserstoff und Wasserstoffderivate). The document estimates that the German economy’s demand for…
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| 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.…
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| 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…
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| 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. The German…
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| Michał Kędzierski, Agata Łoskot-Strachota
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…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| Michał Kędzierski, Sebastian Płóciennik
Germany the Constitutional Court deprives the government of €60 billion earmarked for transformation
On 15 November the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Karlsruhe ruled that the reallocation of the unused debt from the pandemic support measures to the Energy and Climate Fund (currently known as the Climate and Transformation Fund;…