Value proposition

Clean Energy Wire produces and facilitates top-quality journalism about the energy transition in Germany & beyond.

Clean Energy Wire CLEW produces & facilitates quality journalism about Europe's move to climate neutrality. Drawing from 10 years of expertise in covering all relevant topics of Germany's Energiewende, we collaborate with our global network to create the media sphere to support evidence-based, fair, democratic and globally connected climate action.

Nearly 6,000 subscribers have signed up for a CLEW newsletter, 2,700 of them get the daily briefing.

Our user survey showed the journalists who use our website are experienced professionals from all types of media, mostly focusing on energy and climate topics. Our other users work for a wide range of employers, from companies and business associations to NGOs and government agencies and diplomats.

Clean Energy Wire CLEW covers the big stories and news on Germany's Energiewende and provides regular updates on the EU and key member states with well-researched, fact-based and nuanced reporting and background information. As a foundation-funded non-profit outfit, we are independent of business, political or other special interests.

We help with research, dig out data, and establish contacts with relevant players in governments, businesses and civil society. We offer research tours and workshops that put international journalists right at the heart of the key energy transition stories.

The CLEW Journalism Network is a platform run by and for journalists for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and for collaborative projects on climate and energy.

CLEW can offer its services free of charge to journalists thanks to its funders, Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation. The CLEW team also runs award-winning German-language climate science communication site klimafakten.de.




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