Germany

German wind turbine maker Nordex more than doubled quarterly EBITDA and grew order intake 32 percent, confirming its full-year 2026 guidance.

Ucaneo and Siemens opened a 150-ton-per-year electrochemical DAC plant in Berlin's Marzahn district, Germany's first project to combine direct air capture with permanent geological CO2 storage.

Ember data shows solar supplied 25 percent of EU electricity in June 2026, a record 52 TWh that outranked nuclear, gas, wind, hydro, and coal for only the third month ever.

The German state has moved 5,000 employees off Microsoft SharePoint onto a self-hosted Nextcloud platform, with a long-term goal of 50,000 users as part of a digital sovereignty push.

Vattenfall began offshore construction on its 1.6 GW Nordlicht cluster north of Borkum, setting the first of 68 monopiles for the 980 MW Nordlicht I phase, with both wind farms slated to enter operation in 2028.

Fraunhofer ISE data put renewables at 61.8 percent of Germany's net public electricity generation in the first half of 2026, with record solar output of 43.2 TWh, while a separate ZSW and BDEW assessment finds renewables covered a record 57.7 percent of electricity consumption.

Germany's Focused Energy raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A, with utility RWE expanding its stake and offering the decommissioned Biblis reactor site as a home for laser-driven fusion.

Qilin ransomware group claims attack on German political party Die Linke, threatening to leak 1.5 terabytes of internal data in what the party calls a hybrid warfare operation.

Munich-based Proxima Fusion, RWE, Bavaria, and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics have agreed on a two-stage, multibillion-euro roadmap to build a demonstration stellarator and a grid-connected commercial fusion plant at the decommissioned Gundremmingen reactor site.

Germany's first industrial AI cloud delivers 0.5 ExaFLOPS from a converted bank building cooled by the Eisbach river, marking Europe's boldest bid for AI independence from US hyperscalers.