The Chinese government is considering plans to subsidize the use of energy-efficient materials and renewable energy technologies in new buildings and is encouraging provincial and municipal governments to impose stricter efficiency standards than the national minimums, Chinese officials said Wednesday.

• Date: 15.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from nytimes.com

Russia's state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has sent the entire technical documentation on the build project of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region, the news agency Regnum reports.

• Date: 15.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Slovenia the westernmost successor state of the former Yugoslavia has been an attractive target for more than 120 Swiss firms and investors.

• Date: 15.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.06.2011  |  External Relations  |  from expatica.com

SENIOR US officials have warned that the Fukushima nuclear emergency is far more serious than the Japanese government has acknowledged, as America moves to bolster Japan's faltering response and avoid a full-scale meltdown.

• Date: 13.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.06.2011  |  Markets  |  from theaustralian.com.au

Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov met on Thursday with his Turkish counterpart Taner Yildiz in Kayseri, Turkey, where they took part in the signing of the Project Support Agreements (PSAs) between Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH and the responsible ministries of the pipeline's five transit countries.

• Date: 11.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from balkaninsight.com

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to achieve new progress in bilateral ties.

• Date: 11.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 11.06.2011  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Agricultural products from Kyrgyzstan are classified as 2nd class in Russia, as Sergei Golenko, advisor to Minister of Agriculture of the KR, said at meeting in Government House adviser.

• Date: 10.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2011  |  Markets  |  from 24.kg

Russia's state-controlled power trader Inter RAO UES cut on Thursday electricity supplies to Belarus by 200 MW from the current 400-500 MW over delayed debt payments

• Date: 09.06.2011  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru