Handelsblatt Green & Energy - Der Podcast rund um Nachhaltigkeit, Klima und Energiewende

Handelsblatt Green & Energy covers the energy transition as a working economy, not as a set of abstract climate goals. Its episodes start from pressure points that households, companies, and politicians can feel immediately. Fuel prices rise. Solar support changes. Grid costs become contentious. Electric cars look cheaper on one spreadsheet and uncertain on another. From there, the show follows the mechanism. A conversation about rooftop solar turns into a discussion of self-consumption, smart meters, dynamic tariffs, bonus models, and the risk that a policy shift could slow small PV installations for years. A discussion of electric vehicles stays close to purchase reality. It asks when higher petrol and diesel prices actually change behavior, why young used EVs may matter, and how subsidies, supply, technology, range, and consumer confidence all sit in the same calculation. The Mercosur episode widens the frame. Customs, European exports, rainforest concerns, pesticides, farmers, legal uncertainty, and strategic industry interests all appear in the same debate, giving the listener a sense of why the agreement is so politically hard to settle. Energy prices are treated with similar restraint. The show connects oil and gas shocks to the Strait of Hormuz, German industry, food prices, inflation, and the long-standing problem of fossil dependency. It does not pretend that renewables remove every dependency either. Rare earths, lithium, uranium, China, and damaged domestic solar capacity all complicate the argument. The anniversary episode adds perspective by measuring early climate optimism against slower electric mobility, fossil resilience, and the gap between corporate targets and market results. Grid planning brings the most technical version of the show’s method. Monitoring, connection contracts, compensation mechanisms, network expansion, and climate-neutral electricity demand are explained as sequential choices rather than expert fog. The pacing is deliberate. Interviews proceed by clarification, counterpoint, and practical consequence. The result is sober business journalism for listeners who want climate and energy news with numbers, trade-offs, and institutional texture. It suits people who care less about moral performance than about what actually happens when Germany tries to rebuild its energy system under market pressure.