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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German government has agreed to pay four nuclear operators nearly 2.6 billion euros ($3.1 billion) in compensation for forcing them to shut their nuclear plants early in response to the Fukushima disaster, ministries said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The remains of a cooling tower at RWE's Muelheim-Kaerlich nuclear power plant are pictured in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported on Thursday that a sum of 2.4 billion euros will be made available from the general budge...

The German government has agreed to pay nuclear operators 2.4 billion euros ($2.86 billion) in compensation for forcing them to shut their nuclear plants early in response to the the Fukushima disaster, ministries said on Friday.

The German government has agreed to pay nuclear operators 2.4 billion euros in compensation for an early nuclear shutdown after the Fukushima disaster, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily reported on Thursday, citing government sources.

By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German utilities and gas transport lobbies said on Wednesday the government was hampering a rapid transition to using carbon-free hydrogen by proposing a phased-in approach for transporting the fuel to consumers. Germany wants to scale up the use of “green” hydrogen - extracted from water via electrolysis powered by wind and solar energy, and phase out “grey” hydrogen - extracted mostly from natural gas - to get closer to carbon neutrality in the coming decades. The government, trying to boost efforts to meet climate targets, last year...

Germany is set to to take the first step towards using carbon-free hydrogen fuel in the transport sector, with the phasing in of the new energy source a boost to efforts to meet climate targets.