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

ISSUE #29
09/05/2011
On 5 August 2011, a Kiev district court resumed the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, the leader of the opposition Fatherland party. It is well known that Tymoshenko is accused of exceeding her powers when she signed gas contracts with Russia in 2009. READ MORE

• September 12, 2011

Moldova sees Azerbaijan as a strategic partner, the ambassador of Moldova to Azerbaijan, Igor Bodiu, said.

• September 11, 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

India has assured its willingness to support Kyrgyzstan in strengthening its defence and security apparatus. The details of the support was discussed by the Indian Defence Minister, AK Antony and the visiting Kyrgyzstan Defence Minister, Major General Abibilla Kudaberdiev

• 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