Our weekly Dispatches provide an overview of the most relevant recent and upcoming developments for the shift to climate neutrality in selected European countries, from policy and diplomacy to society ...

The biggest lever for cutting costs is to use existing lines more effectively, Agora Energiewende concluded. “The guiding principle for grid planning should be: innovation where possible, expansion ...

Germany’s economy ministry is considering giving oil majors the option to return offshore wind sites they had agreed to paid billions for in auctions but now wish to exit, Tagesspiegel Background ...

Germany’s subsidy to lower electricity expenditures for energy-intensive industry could cost the state significantly more than planned, according to calculations by business daily Handelsblatt.

With six months to go before the French presidential election, contenders are turning their attention away from this summer’s severe drought and wildfires and towards addressing rising fuel prices ...

France aims to become climate neutral by 2050, yet emission reductions lag behind targets. The country has been experiencing budgetary difficulties since the onset of a political crisis in July 2024.

As the German federal government struggles to provide relief to people facing rising energy costs, it has so far left one source of funding, a multi-billion-euro EU pot, untouched, Tagesspiegel ...

Germany installed 91 percent more new battery storage capacity in the first nine months of 2026 than in the same period a year earlier, according to the German Solar Association (BSW-Solar).

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The shortage of skilled labour is “one of the most serious structural problems” facing the German economy and represents a major obstacle to implementing key policy aims, including the energy ...

Industrial reinvention and next generation technologies, as well as resilient energy systems are two of five growth areas identified – alongside AI, core infrastructure, and security and defence – in ...

Poland is one of the EU's largest economies and the only country in the bloc that still produces over half of its electricity from coal. The fuel's share in the energy mix has dropped significantly in ...