More than 200 coal miners were killed and many others were injured at an explosion that occurred Tuesday night at a mine in western Turkey.
Category: Europe
EU Energy Security: Putting Eggs into More Baskets
Russia has always had important geopolitical interests on the European continent. Since Moscow launched the Nord Stream pipeline in 2011, the country has been entrenched
Estonia’s Become the 29th Member of International Energy Agency
Estonia has officially become the 29th member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) as the country completed the final steps towards full membership, IEA Executive
G7: Energy Should Not be Used As a Means of Political Coercion
The Energy ministers of the seven most industrialized countries in the world have agreed that “energy should not be used as a means of political
General Electric to Buy France’s Alstom for $17 billion
General Electric (GE), a US company, is considering buying the French engineering company Alstom for about 16.9 billion USD. GE is not the only major
UK Eco-Friendly Undersea Project Approved
The European Union has decided to approve the United Kingdom’s White Rose carbon capture and storage project (CCS), whose aim is to capture carbon dioxide
Russia’s Energy Firms Wither as Sanctions Grow
The rating agency Standard&Poor’s (S&P) cut the credit ratings for some of Russia’s major energy and transportation firms as more sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s
Global Demand for Lignite to Rise by 5.4 pc by 2020
Global demand for lignite is expected to go up 5.4 percent by 2020, warns the International Energy Agency which fears the return of dirty coal
‘Energy Union’ to Boost EU’s Energy Security
Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, has put forward a proposal suggesting that the EU member states should establish an energy union to secure their supplies
EU Supports Low-Carbon Power Technologies
The European Union will support the CCS plants to be built across in Europe by 2020. European financial institutions say they are willing to fund