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A burgeoning row between France and Germany fired by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines threatens to spill over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders on Thursday (23 March). A row erupted between two of the European Union’s biggest economies after Berlin upset some of its …

Germany has avoided a gas shortage this winter but “things could be different” next year and there’s no time for complacency, a top energy regulator said. “We can’t rule out a gas shortage situation for next winter,” Klaus Mueller, president of the federal network agency BNetzA, told the Rheinische Post. …

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has joined forces with Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, to develop a new ammonia cracking technology. The collaboration between the two companies will see Linde Engineering and Aramco’s experience and capabilities being …

A meeting in Cairo aiming at steering the committees of the Egyptian-German green hydrogen project partnership, along with Egyptian officials has set up a joint roadmap to support hydrogen production companies and encourage hydrogen transportation and marketing, according to the embassy. The meeting, which was attended by Egyptian Minister of …

Berlin is planning to introduce a special industrial electricity tariff ranging between €0.05 and €0.09 per kilowatt-hour in order to boost the country’s competitiveness and push back against US and Chinese subsidies. Electricity has always been pricey in Germany – a 2015 study by the Fraunhofer Institute found that the …

Germany needs to use all energy options available to bring down high prices and protect certain sectors of the economy, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Wednesday. “We need to change our energy policy to be adapted to the new realities,” he said at an event organised by the BVMW …

The system of main oil pipelines of the KazTransOil national company started receiving Kazakh oil for transportation to Germany on Feb. 23, said Shyngys Ilyasov, director of the public relations and internal communications department at KazTransOil, in a press statement. According to the oil supply schedule approved by the Kazakh …

Norwegian energy company Equinor on Friday said it joined Germany’s EnBW to develop wind farms off the German coast, part of a growing regional energy shift. The German government increased its target for offshore wind energy capacity from 20 gigawatts to 30 GW by 2030, with eyes set on 70 …

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. made the first LNG delivery from the Middle East to Germany, with the UAE’s national oil company calling it a “milestone.” The delivery of 137,000 cu m of LNG is the commissioning cargo for the Elbehafen floating LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel, ADNOC and utility RWE …

By 2030, renewables should produce 80% of German electricity, according to the government’s plans. Recently, Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave out the order to construct “four to five onshore wind turbines a day” by 2030 and promised to check in with Germany’s 16 states “every month” to verify “how far they …