Georgia is waiting for many-billion investments into its power economy: it wants to build 15 hydroelectric power stations and become the largest electrical energy exporter in the region, Business-Georgia reports.

• February 8, 2011

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• February 7, 2011

In late 2011 - early 2012, the Czech 'Energy' engineering and construction company will begin construction of new power plant and coal mines in Tkibuli (Georgia).

• February 5, 2011

A delegation from Turkmenistan’s state-owned gas company will be coming here on Monday for bilateral discussions on the gas sales purchase agreement (GSPA) for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) pipeline.

• February 5, 2011

European Union leaders are holding their first ever energy summit today (4 February) but the policy agenda looks likely to take a backseat to pressing issues such as Egypt and the eurozone debt crisis.

• February 4, 2011

India and Iran have resolved a dispute over how it pays for Iranian crude oil with New Delhi agreeing to set up a new mechanism that will route payments through a German bank, a finance ministry official said Friday.

• February 4, 2011

President Barack Obama signed ratification documents for America's new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia on Wednesday, clearing the way for the two powers to put the landmark accord into effect.

• February 3, 2011

Greece expects that Azerbaijan will become a major gas supplier, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis said today in Baku during the third meeting of an Azerbaijani-Greek intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

• February 2, 2011