Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız on Friday said Turkey will have three functioning nuclear power plants by 2023.

• Date: 19.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from todayszaman.com

Despite tightening international economic sanctions, Iran is driving to boost its energy industry, including a natural gas pipeline to Iraq and Syria that may even run to southern Europe and another to run through Turkey to Europe.

• Date: 19.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from upi.com

Jordan and Turkey have agreed to share their nuclear expertise and explore the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.The nuclear cooperation agreement signed Thursday entails exchanging of expertise and cooperation in operation, renewal and maintenance of nuclear reactors, Xinhua reported.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from thaindian.com

Korean companies are flocking to the UAE as they see business opportunities following the $20billion UAE nuclear power projects deal and other energy and heavy industry projects recently obtained by big Korean companies.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from emirates247.com

The prime ministers of Estonia and Lithuania met Tuesday in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to wrestle with the Baltic states' "energy island" status within the European Union.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from topnews.in

The United States will continue to expand its civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, including reactor development and security of radioactive materials, a top U.S. nuclear official told

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Ukraine aims to attract private investment in government-run coal mines to increase production, Deputy Coal and Energy Minister Ihor Popovych said. The government has drawn up investment plans for state mines in 2011 envisaging 5.5 billion hryvnia ($691 million) of spending, Popovych said in an interview published today by official government newspaper Uryadovyi Kurier.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Poland will probably import electric energy from the Russian nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Oblast which is currently under construction

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from warsawvoice.pl