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| Are the big gas producers setting up a cartel à la Opec? Most experts argue that the structure of gas markets makes the gas business much le...

| While the US and Europe compete for Shtokman gas, China is increasingly asserting as an attractive market for Russian energy. Yet, in the en...

| The gas conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not what it appears to be in the western media, argues Jérôme Guillet. It has been going on f...

| President Dmitry Medvedev’s close affiliation to Gazprom has until recently been a source of strength for both. With energy prices slipping,...

| European Union institutions have managed to push through the difficult adoption of an ambitious legislative package on energy and climate ch...

| The European Commission has produced a new roadmap aiming to ‘guarantee secure and sustainable energy supplies’. Stakeholders in the energy...

| France, which used to be a pioneer in solar technology, produces only a fraction of the solar output of market leader Germany. But new, attr...

| Thanks to generous subsidies, the development of solar power has taken off in Belgium. Many players even fear that ‘oversubsidising’ could l...

| Scientists, plant manufacturers and module producers in Saxony are working on new technologies that can be used to produce solar electricity...

| More and more solar technology companies are establishing themselves in the eastern German state of Saxony. The conditions in the state prov...