Despite record high natural gas prices and a worldwide energy crisis, global coal-powered generation fell in the year’s first half, defying forecasts of high coal consumption in the electricity sector.
Czech citizens are more in favour of negotiating energy imports with Russia than completely cutting ties despite the resulting high costs and necessary savings, a Kantar survey published by Czech Television on Sunday has found.
Despite the decades-long efforts of both foreign and domestic companies, and prodding from international governments, the effort to make use of Albania’s prodigious wind has stalled again and again.
A French ferry company has launched what it claims is the first vessel that uses filters to capture almost all air pollutants from the boat’s exhaust fumes, sparking praise from campaigners and local authorities.
EU energy ministers on Friday (9 September) called on the European Commission to cap gas prices amid growing urgency to tackle skyrocketing bills hitting consumers and businesses.
…terminal at Eemshaven was officially opened late on Thursday with the first LNG shipment arriving from the US gulf, said Dutch gas grid operator Gasunie…
Austria cannot support the initiative to introduce a price cap on Russian gas now, the country’s Federal Minister for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology Leonore Gewessler said on Friday.
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom is set to rake in 85% higher revenues this year, to around $100 billion, as natural gas prices surged following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the significant cut to Russian pipeline gas exports to Europe, an analyst told the Financial Times on Friday.
The European Union is planning to boost financial support to its military mission in Mozambique, as Islamist attacks threaten gas projects meant to reduce the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy.
The share of German houses built with gas heating dropped by nine percentage points in the first half of this year, although Russia’s war on Ukraine did not accelerate the downwards trend.