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At last, the world’s first hydrogen-powered trains have made their global debut in the northern countryside of Germany. As of Monday, two Coradia iLint locomotives have been transporting passengers back and forth to the...

Two trains built by the French train maker Alstom are now operating on a 62 mile stretch of line in northern Germany

Occupiers protesting against coalmine expansion in Hambach forest call for mass mobilisation

With summer still in full swing and heatwaves gripping countries around the world, breweries across Germany have been scrambling to keep up with the beer demand from hot and thirsty customers...

A UFO-inspired house may be one of the last things you’d expect to find in a quaint Italian village, but this Space Age mountain chalet fits surprisingly well in its forested surroundings...

King’s College London ‘lending appearance of neutrality’ to businessman with energy links

German authorities slapped Volkswagen (VW) with a one-billion-euro fine — that's around $1.16 billion — for diesel emissions cheating. The fine follows a 2017 plea agreement in the U.S.; the car company then agreed to...

The top administrative court in Germany has issued a ruling that empowers municipalities to ban older diesel vehicles, effective immediately, in pursuit of cleaner air...

Foreign secretary says Nord Stream 2 could leave Europe reliant on ‘malign’ Russia

This narrow rental home, nestled in Oberaudorf — a village in Bavaria, Germany — is the perfect place to refuel and find inspiration. Architect Markus Eck designed the house, named Gut Feeling, as a green vacation home...

Offshore wind turbines could soon provide more electricity for Germany — to the tune of 1,610 megawatts (MW). The country recently held an auction for companies that want to build offshore wind projects, ultimately granting...

Deutsche Telekom just announced plans to convert distribution boxes in Germany into electric vehicle chargers - and the move will double the size of the nation's charging infrastructure with 12,000 new stations...

The latest article in our new economics series looks at what happened when a German utilities contract expired, and one man thought his neighbours could take over

Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to Iris Degenhardt-Meister, who is part of a cooperative energy company that runs the electricity grid in Wolfhagen, Germany, and asks Prof Andrew Cumbers from the University of Glasgow if such...

The latest article in our new economics series looks at what happened when a German utilities contract expired, and one man thought his neighbours could take over