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

Iran and Russia will next week open the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Tuesday.

• September 6, 2011

The project to build a second Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria's Danube town of Belene is strategic and must be launched again as soon as possible, according the presidential hopeful, Ivaylo Kalfin.

• September 3, 2011

China has put the brakes on oil and gas investments in Iran, drawing ire from Tehran over a pullback that officials and executives said reflected Beijing's efforts to appease Washington and avoid US sanctions on its big energy firms.

• September 3, 2011

State support and investments are required to develop the "green economy" and alternative energy sources, Deputy Chief of the Azerbaijani State Agency for Alternative and Renewable Energy Jamil Melikov said at a workshop on the "Regional analysis and dialogue on the legal framework, system and prospects for "green economy "in the member countries of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation ".

• September 3, 2011

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych remained at loggerheads on Monday over the price of gas sold to Ukraine, with Kiev asking for reduced rates and the Moscow side refusing.

• September 3, 2011

Energy ministers from the 18-member East Asia Summit will pledge to boost cooperation in nuclear safety, the draft of a statement they plan to issue says.

• September 2, 2011