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Focused Energy, a U.S.-German start-up pursuing laser-driven fusion power, has signed a non-binding agreement with the largest German electric utility RWE and the state of Hessen to build a fusion research and development facility in Germany, Focused Energy’s CEO Scott Mercer told Reuters on Monday. Focused Energy plans to have …

Ideas to resurrect the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to Germany are the “wrong direction of discussion”, Germany’s outgoing economy and energy minister Robert Habeck said on Monday. “The Ukrainians are still under the aggression of Russia. So I think talking about the potential of Nord Stream 2 or …

Germany is undergoing a major political shift that will have sweeping implications for the nation’s energy sector. As Europe’s biggest economy, Germany’s energy policy does not just bear impact on a national level, but will reverberate throughout the European Union and then the world. In last month’s election, German politics …

The new German government that will be formed following this weekend’s elections will face an uphill battle to lift Europe’s largest economy out of two consecutive years of recession. Bringing energy costs down will be key to Germany’s economic recovery after three years of spiking and highly volatile power and …

Germany’s year-ahead power futures prices fell this week to the lowest level since the beginning of the year amid falling European natural gas prices as talks on a peace deal in Ukraine began. In recent months, Germany has become more dependent on fossil fuel-powered generation amid low wind speeds that …

Trading Hub Europe GmbH, the German natural gas market area manager, is holding “intensive discussions” with Germany’s authorities to potentially receive subsidies to refill gas storage sites amid fast-depleting inventories and rallying forward gas prices. “We are still in talks with the ministry as well as the regulator, and as …

The Romanian business of Austria’s energy giant OMV has reached an agreement with German firm Uniper to supply natural gas to Germany from a Black Sea project from 2027, sources with knowledge of the deal have told Reuters. Austria and Europe as a whole are looking to secure alternative gas …

Germany’s solar boom has slowed to a trickle and turned into a bust for domestic manufacturers of solar panels and PV system installers and providers. Following a breakneck surge in solar power installations in 2022 and 2023 at the peak of the energy crisis, German solar capacity additions slowed toward …

A EUR 4.06 billion ($4.24 billion) direct grant by the German government for four gas storage and regasification units (FSRUs) has received state aid rules clearance from the European Commission. Germany chartered the FSRUs December 2022 and created Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) to manage the liquefied natural gas (LNG) …

Intraday power prices in Germany jumped and natural gas-fired electricity generation rose to a two-year high this week as low wind speeds continue to depress wind power output. Natural gas use for power generation rose on Wednesday to its highest level since December 2022, as a wider power supply gap …