The United Nations atomic energy agency today pledged to play a central role in restoring public faith in nuclear power after this year’s disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant, which is projected to slow the growth in the use of such electricity generating reactors.

• September 13, 2011

"Due to the trusts we won during cooperation with our Iranian colleagues, we declare on behalf of Russia that Russia will join power plants' development ventures in Iran and we support them. Talks with Iranian side on the issue have been started since long time ago and were never stopped," he said in the inauguration ceremony of the power plant.

• September 13, 2011

Year 2012 is shaping up to be another year when the developments in the Pacific Basin will be the key determinants of Coal demand. With US demand muted by low gas prices and EU demand kept in check by expansion in renewable generation and poor macroeconomic prospects, Asia will be the sole source of market impetus, says Barcalys in a report.

• September 12, 2011

The Futaba district of Japan's Fukushima prefecture was once defined largely by its farmers and its fishermen, as well as by its vast nuclear complexes that funneled power to Tokyo.

• September 12, 2011

Turkmenistan supplies electricity to Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey, and the electricity expert volumes are growing steadily, Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammadov said in his address to the Turkmen energy sector employees on the occasion of their professional holiday

• September 11, 2011

Sri Lanka and India here on Tuesday signed the much delayed 500 million to 700 million U.S dollar coal power plant in eastern Sri Lanka.

• September 7, 2011

Russia isn’t currently planning to build any new nuclear stations in Iran after operations start at the Persian Gulf state’s first atomic plant in Bushehr, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, Bloomberg reported.

• September 7, 2011

L&L Energy Inc , a U.S.-based company with coal mining and distribution businesses in China, said it plans to buy 14 metallurgical coal producing mines that could yield about $500 million in revenue.

• September 6, 2011