BERLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Germany is set to become the first country to drop both nuclear and coal power under a landmark agreement to compensate workers, companies and regional governments as it ...

The German Economy Ministry on Wednesday contradicted claims by US President Donald Trump that portrayed Germany as a model for restoring coal power plants. Germany will phase out coal by 2038, a ...

FRANKFURT, Feb 3 (Reuters) - German energy firm HH2E and brown coal miner and power generator Leag plan to cooperate on green hydrogen plants at sites in the eastern German states of Saxony, ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined an estimated 6,000 protesters in Germany who marched through rain and mud to voice their opposition against the expansion of a coal mine on Saturday. The ...

(Bloomberg) -- The protest started cheerfully enough on Wednesday, with music blaring and flags flying even under the driving rain. Then the police arrived, decked out in riot gear and backed by ...

Coal-fired power generation in Germany hit a one-year high this week as renewable energy output continues to struggle amid low wind speeds. German coal power plants generated 8.1 gigawatts (GW) of ...

The Schwarze Pumpe power station has long been part of the landscape in the German state of Brandenburg - Copyright AFP Findlay KEMBER The Schwarze Pumpe power ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - RWE <RWEG.DE>, Germany's biggest power producer, will cut about 6,000 jobs, or nearly a third of its current workforce, by 2030 as the country moves to phase out brown coal as an ...

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 power generator RWE on Monday said it is preparing three brown coal-to-power production units, Neurath C and Niederaussem E and F, for a restart under a relevant law to help ensure enough ...

FRANKFURT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Swedish utility Vattenfall's German unit started up a new coal-fired power station on Thursday in a rare departure from the country's strategy to focus on renewable ...

The cutting of Russian gas supplies to Europe has led Germany to step up coal use, despite its goal to phase it out by 2030. An excavator working at the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine in Germany in ...