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Vahreholt advocates for a return to nuclear energy (using subsidy billions to build new plants), the use of domestic shale gas, and the continued operation of coal-fired power plants...

Robert Habeck says world has moved on from weaponising energy to using tariffs, technology and more to inflict harm

While in 1990 one-third of Europe’s energy came from nuclear, today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was as strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back...

Prospect of Trump easing US sanctions on Russian oil is a nightmare for the bloc as nations work out how to respond

If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were

Coalition government agrees to remove parts of controversial law and allow homes to rely on fossil fuels

Baseload power sources — whether nuclear or coal — were dismissed prematurely with pie-in-the-sky magical-thinking that a renewables-centric system could replace them quickly...

Germany’s energy woes were compounded by the country’s move away from coal and nuclear power as part as its transition to green energies. According to Spiegelsperger, “We have switched from nuclear and coal now mainly...

Politicians, media lying about “harsh winter” being the cause of the shortage… Reality: Mismanagement is to blame…Germany was never even prepared for a WARM winter!

The country’s chemical industry once symbolised the triumph of science, industry and energy harnessed in service of human progress. Its current decline symbolises something else entirely: the delusional triumph of ideology...

Repeated snowfall and freezing rain have coated the open-air insane asylum known as Berlin in a thin sheet of slippery ice since the beginning of January...

Britain among 10 nations to build 100GW grid in North Sea linking countries through subsea cables

Germany desperately needs to pray for a warm February miracle if the country is to avoid an energy disaster and a state of emergency. 

If Germany’s cold January continues as forecasts suggest, natural gas rationing will be likely. 

By Jo Nova Don’t call these fossil fuel generators — they are baby hydrogen plants! Facing industrial death, Germany has finally decided it needs dispatchable reliable electricity...