Germany gets less sun than the entire continental US, and yet almost a fifth of its electrical generation was done by solar ...

Solar power has quietly pulled ahead of coal and gas in Germany’s electricity mix, even though the country is better known ...

Robert Habeck Vice-Chancellor and German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, speaks into a microphone. Habeck says the nation's power supply is more independent than before the ...

Officials in Germany are scaling back their plans to develop more natural gas–fired power plants, as the government wants to ...

ESSEN, Germany — In a coal heartland of Germany stands a monument to the source of its economic might: a giant mine more than a half-mile deep that once produced the largest amount of coal in the ...

IBBENBÜREN, Germany — The Germans have a word to describe the long goodbye. Abschiedsstimmung — which translates roughly to “the lingering feeling of saying goodbye or farewell” — could describe the ...

Even green Europeans would rather tap coal than face the reality of overdependence on unreliable renewable energy. Late last month, Germany’s energy regulator said the country needs more coal power.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ...

FRANKFURT, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Germany's hard coal importers lobby VDKi on Wednesday urged the government to extend a deal that made an additional 6 gigawatt (GW) of coal power available as a back up ...

Germany’s coal demand rose last year for the second year in a row, coal importers association VDKI warned this week—and the country will hang onto its coal usage for longer than the German government ...

German police continued a crackdown on anti-coal protesters who are camped out in an abandoned town slated to be demolished for the expansion of coal production. A large force of German police ...