Even as China has dramatically ramped up wind and solar in recent years, its power demand, including from electric vehicles, continues to outpace new supply, creating an ever greater need for fossil fuels.

The acceptance of Sovcomflot tanker by the country’s largest refiner carries significance as it could embolden other smaller refiners to also use the Sovcomflot vessels for their oil purchases from Russia.

China has the world’s largest nuclear fleet and aims to produce 10% of its electricity from nuclear power by 2035 and 18% by 2060 to enhance energy security and advance decarbonisation goals.

Vietnam, which gets most of its power from coal, is rushing to avoid a repeat of last year, when a shortage of the mineral, blistering hot weather and drought forced it to cut electricity to northern industrial parks that house many multinational companies.

The US and Japan have a long history of collaborative activities in the area of fusion, including exchange programmes, joint research and joint planning covered by the Coordinating Committee on Fusion Energy (CCFE).

India's overall oil and gas output rose 1.3% on the year to 1.15 million boe/d in 2023. China's upstream story sounds relatively more promising at this stage.

Russia, which prior to invading Ukraine had an insignificant role in India’s oil basket, has seen exports to India swell since the start of the war and consequent Western sanctions, becoming the country’s top supplier.

The opening of these research facilities and testing platforms by China to the world is expected to promote the development of nuclear technology worldwide.

«Сегодня российский ТЭК играет ключевую роль в мировой энергетике. Россия занимает 2-ое место в мире по добыче нефти и газа, 4-ое — по производству СПГ, 5-ое — по добыче угля. От реализации энергоресурсов на экспорт зависит очень многое: это даёт нашей экономике дополнительную гибкость и позволяет нам конкурировать на мировом энергетическом рынке»,

Japan’s government is ramping up an effort to secure local approval to resume operations at the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, according to a report, amid a wider push by the nation to restart its idled fleet of reactors.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which has cited energy security concerns and low per-capita emissions to defend India's coal dependence, has been trying to attract private investment to boost its coal-fired capacity by 80 GW by 2032

The deal will further facilitate Australia's exports of coal and liquefied natural gas to Vietnam, the ministry said in a statement, noting that Australia is now a key coal supplier to Vietnam, accounting for 44% of its total coal imports.

South Korea has 25 nuclear power reactors with a total capacity of 24.7 GWe at the end of 2023. According to the state-run utility Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, in 2022, these plants generated nearly 30% of all electricity, up from 23% in 2018.

Deputy Prime Minister and OPEC+ envoy Alexander Novak drove home the official line that sanctions make Russia stronger when he said in October, referring to the redirection of exports, "the main consumption of energy resources will in future be in [the Asia-Pacific] region... We would have to do this anyway. We just sped up a bit."

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) held a conference in Hanoi on February 22 to deploy Vietnam's hydrogen energy development strategy to 2030 with a vision until 2050.