<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Brian Parkin - ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brian Parkin - ]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ADUM8StTlG8/brian-parkin</link><image><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.png</url><title>Brian Parkin - </title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ADUM8StTlG8/brian-parkin</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:14:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2025 BLOOMBERG L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ADUM8StTlG8/brian-parkin.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Town in Germany Juices Effort to Create Battery-Making Hub]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-09/tesla-coming-to-town-bolsters-german-state-s-battery-ambitions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-09/tesla-coming-to-town-bolsters-german-state-s-battery-ambitions</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stefan Nicola]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isMZ4v0VGd7U/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isMZ4v0VGd7U/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Joerg Steinbach</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Day Europe’s Power Grid Came Close to a Massive Blackout]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/green-shift-brings-blackout-risk-to-world-s-biggest-power-grid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/green-shift-brings-blackout-risk-to-world-s-biggest-power-grid</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesper Starn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iu2.eLRs32oU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iu2.eLRs32oU/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Power lines in Germany. Photographer: picture alliance/picture alliance</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Paid Record $38 Billion for Green Power Growth in 2020]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/germany-paid-record-38-billion-for-green-power-growth-in-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/germany-paid-record-38-billion-for-green-power-growth-in-2020</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:02:59 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i37oSEPwy6tM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i37oSEPwy6tM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Wind turbines at a wind farm during sunset in Nauen Brandenburg, Germany, on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. It was a pivotal year in the transition toward renewable energy, underpinned by massive government spending pledges and corporations working to burnish their environmental, social and governance credentials. Photographer: Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.K. Risks China Spat With Boris Johnson Attack on ‘Demented’ Medicine]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/u-k-risks-china-spat-with-johnson-attack-on-demented-medicine</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/u-k-risks-china-spat-with-johnson-attack-on-demented-medicine</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jess Shankleman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:02:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany to Sell Record Debt of Up to $576 Billion in 2021]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/germany-to-sell-record-debt-of-as-much-as-576-billion-in-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/germany-to-sell-record-debt-of-as-much-as-576-billion-in-2021</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:00:34 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifyeH1NpOhVY/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ifyeH1NpOhVY/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A crowd of shoppers wearing protective face masks in Mannheim, Germany, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. The pandemic will cause slightly less damage to Germany’s economy than expected this year as government aid helps offset the effect of virus- containment measures, the country’s top advisers said.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU to Conduct Safety Review at Belarus Nuclear Plant This Month]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/eu-to-conduct-safety-review-at-belarus-nuclear-plant-this-month</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/eu-to-conduct-safety-review-at-belarus-nuclear-plant-this-month</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Milda Seputyte]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:35:52 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isYqzUZg_tHE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/isYqzUZg_tHE/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo, a view of Belarus&apos;s first nuclear plant, near Astravets, Belarus, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. Belarus&apos; first nuclear power plant stopped generating electricity the day after it was formally opened by President Alexander Lukashenko and some of its equipment needs to be replaced. A Belarusian official told The Associated Press on Tuesday Nov. 10, 2020 that the Russian-built and financed Astravets plant stopped producing power on Sunday because some electrical equipment broke down. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pipeline Sanctions in Defense Bill Could Take Effect Quickly]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/pipeline-sanctions-passed-in-defense-bill-on-path-to-become-law</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/pipeline-sanctions-passed-in-defense-bill-on-path-to-become-law</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Flatley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:01:19 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4s6_9D9MeBc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i4s6_9D9MeBc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An employee at the pig receiving station for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nord Stream 2 Work Resumes Despite U.S. Efforts To Stop It]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/german-lawmakers-weigh-sanction-proof-structure-on-nord-stream-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/german-lawmakers-weigh-sanction-proof-structure-on-nord-stream-2</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Vanessa Dezem]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:53:02 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOE3Kw_rs4Uc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOE3Kw_rs4Uc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Sections of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline at the Baltic port of Mukran in Sassnitz, Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s district on the Baltic coast was the site of the last major Soviet military project in communist East Germany and is now at the center of a deepening rift between Cold War allies. Photograph: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla’s German Factory Faces New Snag After Court Halts Logging]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/tesla-s-german-factory-faces-new-snag-after-court-halts-logging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/tesla-s-german-factory-faces-new-snag-after-court-halts-logging</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:47:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iTQJvKSboUIQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iTQJvKSboUIQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An automobile assembly hall stands on an area of cleared forest land at the Tesla Inc. Gigafactory site in this aerial view in Gruenheide, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. The plant that underpins its European expansion plans is slated to start production in the summer of 2021.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Is Unlikely to Save Angela Merkel’s Pet Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[The EU’s signature $11 billion gas link to Russia is fraying transatlantic alliances.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-25/nord-stream-2-joe-biden-is-unlikely-to-save-angela-merkel-s-pet-project</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-25/nord-stream-2-joe-biden-is-unlikely-to-save-angela-merkel-s-pet-project</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Tirone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 05:00:33 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ilz4_1yRqAis/v4/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ilz4_1yRqAis/v4/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Russian pipe-laying vessel &apos;Akademik Cherskiy&apos; awaiting duties at Mukran Port.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Green Power Targets Wobble in Merkel Policy Revamp]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-20/german-green-power-targets-wobble-in-merkel-policy-revamp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-20/german-green-power-targets-wobble-in-merkel-policy-revamp</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:05:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Examines Ammonia to Deliver Green Fuel for Industry]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-05/germany-examines-ammonia-to-deliver-green-fuel-for-industry</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-05/germany-examines-ammonia-to-deliver-green-fuel-for-industry</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:08:20 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iP0RSJNt7Mew/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iP0RSJNt7Mew/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>BERLIN, GERMANY - JUNE 10: A hydrogen pumping station for hydrogen-powered cars stands on June 10, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. The German government is to announce a new national hydrogen strategy later today that includes the development of a five gigawatt electrolysis capacity to produce &quot;green&quot; hydrogen by 2030. Hydrogen, which lends itself as a means for storing energy produced by renewable energy sources, is to become an important part of Germany&apos;s overall renewable energy plan. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Europe</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s Debut Five-Year Green Bond Meets Tepid Demand]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-04/germany-uses-new-green-bonds-to-fund-past-environmental-spending</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-04/germany-uses-new-green-bonds-to-fund-past-environmental-spending</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Gledhill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iAWvH4ZqDpdI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iAWvH4ZqDpdI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Solar panels operate at an energy generating facility operated by Entega AG in this aerial photograph taken near the northern Bavarian village of Thuengen, Germany, on Monday, July 30, 2018. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel&apos;s new coalition has pledged a speedier switch to wind and solar, pushing the share of clean power to 65 percent of total generation by 2030, some utilities have been left wondering whether gas will be needed at all. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Green Grid Price Tag Increases to $111 Billion]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-03/german-green-grid-price-tag-increases-to-111-billion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-03/german-green-grid-price-tag-increases-to-111-billion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:13:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iPFgwZOBZJQw/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iPFgwZOBZJQw/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Solar power in Germany. Photographer: Rolf Schulten/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Pig Backlog May Cram 1.2 Million Extra Hogs on Farms]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-28/german-pig-backlog-could-cram-farms-with-1-2-million-extra-hogs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-28/german-pig-backlog-could-cram-farms-with-1-2-million-extra-hogs</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan Durisin Albery]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:51:10 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iExAg36HZa4E/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iExAg36HZa4E/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A worker uses a paddle to guide pigs towards a truck ahead of slaughter, at a livestock farm in Ohrenbach, Germany, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Despite its relatively small size compared with producers like China or the U.S., Germany is a heavyweight in the global pork trade -- accounting for 15% of the world’s exports in 2017. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germans Face Leap in Green Power to Meet Higher EU Ambitions]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/germans-faces-leap-in-green-power-to-meet-higher-eu-ambitions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/germans-faces-leap-in-green-power-to-meet-higher-eu-ambitions</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:22:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/irIkAmR8HCPA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/irIkAmR8HCPA/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>BERGHEIM, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 16: Electricity pylons and wind turbines stand beside the RWE Niederaussem coal-fired power plant while Steam rises from cooling towers on February 16, 2016 near Bergheim, Germany. Germany is maintaining ambitious goals for transitioning itself away from its traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear towards renewables, such as wind and solar. In 2015 Germany produced approximately 30% of its electricity from renewables, by 2025 it hopes to attain 40-45% and by 2035 55-60%. (Photo by Volker Hartmann/Getty Images) Photographer: Volker Hartmann/Getty Images Europe</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Faces Clear Path for German Plant, State Premier Says]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/tesla-has-clear-path-for-first-german-plant-state-premier-says</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/tesla-has-clear-path-for-first-german-plant-state-premier-says</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Colitt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5kw1.MrigGs/v253/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i5kw1.MrigGs/v253/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Seeks Atomic Waste Dump After Contentious Site Dropped]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/germany-seeks-atomic-waste-dump-after-contentious-site-dropped</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/germany-seeks-atomic-waste-dump-after-contentious-site-dropped</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Parkin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:22:55 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icedcJIrt3uE/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icedcJIrt3uE/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A warning sign hangs on display at the entrance to an underground shaft at the Gorleben salt mine, in Gorleben, Germany, on Thursday, June 16, 2011. German authorities are probing the Gorleben salt dome to determine whether the location is suitable for a planned nuclear waste storage facility. Photographer: Michele Tantussi</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Lifts Year-End Debt Sales, Plans Second Green Bond]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/germany-lifts-fourth-quarter-debt-sales-plans-second-green-bond</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/germany-lifts-fourth-quarter-debt-sales-plans-second-green-bond</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jill Ward]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Plans Record Bond Sales in 2021 to Help Stem Crisis]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/germany-plans-record-gross-borrowing-in-2021-to-help-stem-crisis</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/germany-plans-record-gross-borrowing-in-2021-to-help-stem-crisis</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Birgit Jennen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:07:24 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>