The European Commission’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Monday signed off on the German government’s plan to subsidize chemical giant BASF’s efforts to generate green hydrogen at its headquarters in Ludwigshafen starting in 2025.

Sixty-seven percent of people aged between 17 and 19 in Japan make power-saving efforts on a daily basis, apparently driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

…If Japan quickly restarts its huge fleet of mothballed nuclear reactors, said IEA head Fatih Birol, the world’s biggest importer of LNG will need to ship in considerably less of the stuff, leaving more (…

In a rare softening of hostile relations, Venezuela has freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the United States releasing two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro’s wife who had been jailed for years on drug smuggling conspiracy convictions, the White House said Saturday.

The nation is now preparing for the long haul in a changed world.

In the Bulgarian capital Sofia, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday (1 October) that a Greece-Bulgaria gas interconnector was a “game changer” bringing “freedom from Russia” to the region.

The European Commission will put forward a proposals to tackle high gas prices “soon”, the Czech EU presidency said after an extraordinary meeting of energy ministers on Friday (30 September).

…economic management overturns the convention that Labour governments blow up the public finance s, and Tories put them back together. That switch in the voters’ minds…

EU ministers on Friday (30 September) agreed on new emergency measures to tackle the energy crisis, including a mandatory target to reduce electricity consumption by 5% at peak hours and two new revenue-creating levies to help protect consumers.

EU ministers on Friday agreed cuts to peak-hour power consumption and windfall levies on energy companies in an urgent effort to bring down sky-high energy prices.