After excluding 7 bids due to formal errors, the regulator selected 119 proposals with prices ranging between €7.24c/kWh and the maximum permissible value of €7.35c/kWh. The volume-weighted average reached €7.34c/kWh (+25% compared to the previous round).

The U.K. and U.S. announced the Strategic Energy Dialogue (SED) in June 2021 as the primary bilateral forum to enhance and expand cooperation across shared energy security and resilience, clean energy, and net zero objectives.

"Nuclear energy is one of many tools to achieve our climate goals, to generate base-load electricity and to ensure security of supply," the French ministry noted.

The selected projects aim to tackle specific challenges linked to the commercialisation of fusion energy, from novel fusion materials and manufacturing techniques through to innovative heating and cooling systems, all needed for future fusion power plants.

The Indian conglomerate Essar has announced that it will invest US$3.6bn in the United Kingdom and in India over the next five years through a new entity, named Essar Energy Transition (EET), with the goal to drive decarbonisation.

At the same time, Russian LNG imports into the EU rose by around a third to 14.1 million mt (19 Bcm), but it was LNG from other sources -- the US in particular -- that helped fill some of the gap left by lost Russian gas.

Even though Europe has significantly cut its reliance on Russian gas, a lot of the storage that they used to cut the reliance was actually Russian gas from the past.

Overall gas use in the 27-nation European Union plunged by 19.3% from August to January compared with the five-year average for the same period,

At the end of 2021, offshore wind represented 14% of Denmark’s installed capacity with 2.3 GW (4.7 GW for onshore wind).

Uzbekistan will allocate US$15.4bn to the development and building of these renewable projects.

Preliminary production figures for January 2023 show an average daily production of 1 979 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

Gas markets are in “better shape than many expected one year ago,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. “But the reality is that winter 2023-2024 is likely to be the real test.”

Benchmark futures are now trading just above €50, near the lowest levels since September 2021.

The UAE's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and India's Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar agreed to establish a formal trilateral cooperation initiative last September

Ukraine, whose largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, has been under Russian military control since early March 2022, has been calling for the sanctions to include the nuclear energy sector.