The topics of the stations are: Determination of combustion heat, power of a heat engine (steam engine), power generation with a heat engine (Stirling engine), solar energy, wind power, fuel cell (electrochemical power generation) and hydropower. Other stations deal with ergometry (bicycle ergometer), energy use (gas burner, heating plate, immersion heater, microwave), storage of energy (accumulators), chemical energy (determination of the energy of chemical reactions), passive house, radioactivity, sound energy, thermoelectricity and light energy.

The Energy Trail was created by a collaborative working group of teachers and scientists. Dr. Günther Entenmann came up with 11 experiments. The 16 different experiment stations are each stowed away in aluminum boxes and contain everything necessary for experimentation.

The Energy Trail is primarily used by school classes in grades 9 through 13. In addition, the Energy Trail has been an important tool in teacher training. Students developed and revised experiments and supervised groups of pupils. Since 2015, the Energy Trail has been in use at the TH Bingen under the supervision of Christina Neubert (c.neubert@th-bingen.de).