German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Norwegian Energy Minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg have officially opened the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
read more... 17/04/2019
Spanish oil major Repsol said Thursday its shale gas production in the Marcellus Shale play could grow by 50% by the end of 2020, Kallanish Energy learns.
read more... 07/12/2018
The Russian gas giant of Gazprom and the Austrian OMV company signed on Wednesday a basic agreement on the sales of assets following the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Gazprom said in a statement.
read more... 04/10/2018
Subsidies to help persuade Germans to buy electric vehicles have helped boost demand but cannot go on forever, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, Reuters reports.
read more... 28/09/2018
The German cabinet has agreed to grant compensation of up to EUR1 billion (USD1.17 billion) to the utilities forced to shut down their nuclear power plants by the Energiewende, or energy transition, that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan in March 2011. At that time, Germany was obtaining around a quarter of its electricity from 17 nuclear reactors operated by EnBW, EOn, RWE and Vattenfall.
read more... 28/05/2018