Utilities in South Korea are turning to cheaper alternatives to their main source of coal, Australia, as prices there hit an 18-month peak and have stayed high, industry sources said on Friday.

• May 15, 2010

Russian diplomacy has been on a roll in recent months, the revival of ties with Ukraine being the most dramatic manifestation. But a string of successes, major and minor, sung and unsung, has been notched up below that high point - in Poland, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Norway and Syria.

• May 15, 2010

China and other key world powers, except the US, have keen national interests at stake as far as Teheran is concerned

• May 14, 2010

Investments that yield energy savings will reward the banks who provide crediting

• May 14, 2010

Turkey is still considering whether its prime minister should go to Iran for joint talks with Brazil's president over Tehran's nuclear program, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Thursday.

• May 14, 2010

Last week China's Dongfang Electric Corporation signed an agreement on building the Stanari thermo-electric plant in the Serb Republic whose investor is the EFT [Energy Financing Team] group.

• May 13, 2010

The electricity industry is spending billions on building new, transnational power lines to harness electricity from renewable energy sources. The intelligent grid is designed to make distribution more reliable and efficient, but are consumers playing along?

• May 13, 2010

His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday received Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip as the two countries finalised a "historic" oil shale agreement.

• May 13, 2010