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The article reports on the energy policy being advanced in the European Union (EU) promoting natural gas and nuclear fission as sustainable and Germany's opposition of nuclear power due to safety and nuclear waste concerns. Other topics include the campaign in Germany to shutter nuclear power plants, and the decision by former German chancellor Angela Merkel to end nuclear power by 2022 following Japan's Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

The article discusses nuclear energy in Germany as of June 2012, focusing on the country's decision to phase out its use of nuclear power by 2022 following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, and it also provides a chart which depicts the stock share prices of several German utility companies in 2011-2012. The potential use of offshore wind farms as an energy source is also examined.

The article looks at Jürgen Grossman, president of the German power company RWE, focusing on his opposition to Germany's policy on nuclear energy. Grossman feels that Germany needs nuclear power to meet its targets for greenhouse-gas emission mitigation and reduction. He has also challenged the three-month moratorium on nuclear power plants which were enacted following concerns over the nuclear plant accident in Japan in March 2011.