Germany Investigates Using Train Lines to Transport Wind Power, an Industrial Info News Alert

Photo: Deutsche Bahn AG. A Deutsche Bahn ICE-1 high speed train- nationalcorridors.org

Researched by Industrial Info Resources Europe (Galway, Ireland) -- In the wake of Germany's shutdown of seven nuclear reactors, the German government has been forced to rethink the 'energy revolution' announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel last year. Those reactors are likely to be permanently taken off the grid and an accelerated phase-out of nuclear energy in Germany is in the offing.

As an alternative to developing a new energy grid, Germany is considering using the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) (Berlin) electricity grid for the German National Railway as a means of distributing electric power.

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