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

Russia is waiting for an invitation to participate in the construction of a power transmission system from Central Asia to South Asia, and it is ready to invest into the project hundreds of millions of dollars, President Dmitry Medvedev said after a meeting with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

• September 2, 2011

A deal for Turkey’s first nuclear plant to be built by Russia’s Atomstroyexport will make the country more dependent on Russia, a US diplomat says in a leaked cable

• September 2, 2011

The entire international community should be responsible for the safe and reliable operation of nuclear plants, both within the EU and outside it, the Lithuanian president stressed in a Wednesday meeting with the EU commissioner for climate action in Vilnius.

• September 1, 2011