Slovenia's JEK2 project is for a new one or two-unit nuclear power plant, with up to 2,400 MW capacity, next to Krško NPP which has a 696 MWe pressurised water reactor generating about one-third of the country's electricity.

Croatia does not have nuclear energy capacity in the country, but it is the co-owner with Slovenia of the Krško nuclear power plant close to its border. That plant provides about 16% of Croatia's electricity needs.

Brent rose 23 cents or 0.34% to $67.65, WTI was up 19 cents or 0.3% at $62.52.

In terms of LNG trucking, India is still way behind China. However, it offers good growth potential

The European Climate Law already establishes climate neutrality by 2050 and a 55% net GHG reduction by 2030 (vs. 1990) as legally binding obligations for all member states.

OPEC+ production dipped in January to 42.56 million b/d, a decline of 270,000 b/d compared to December levels and the first monthly drop in 13 months,driven by output cuts in Kazakhstan, Russia, Nigeria and Libya.

UK’s latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, Allocation Round 7 (AR7), has allocated 6.2 GW of new renewable energy capacity (UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero statement, 10/02/2026).

This consent allows the project to build and operate up to 100 turbines with associated infrastructure. Underground onshore cables will transmit power from the landfall site near Anderby Marsh (north of Skegness) to a new substation at Surfleet Marsh in South Lincolnshire.

Brent were down 16 cents, or 0.23%, at $68.88, WTI fell 20 cents, or 0.31%, to $64.16.

Against a backdrop of intensifying Western economic coercion, renewed attempts to weaponize trade, the slowdown in Russia–China bilateral trade, and the U.S.-India oil narrative curbing India’s imports of Russian energy, as well as visible stress fractures in the global energy system, the Putin-Xi dialogue emerged as a crucial strategic calibration for Russia and China.

Globally, over 666 million people do not have access to electricity. If those without electricity were a country, they would be the third most populous on earth.

Global electricity demand is forecast to increase at a brisk average annual rate of 3.6% over the 2026-2030 forecast period, supported by rising consumption from industry, electric vehicles, air conditioning and data centres.

Paks has four VVER-440 units, commissioned in the 1980s, and two new VVER-1200 units are being built by Atomstroyexport, a subsidiary of the Russian Rosatom.

Winter Storm Fern (January 23–27, 2026) was a severe, multi-day arctic outbreak that brought record-low temperatures (as low as –43 °F in Minnesota), ice accumulations up to 0.80 inches, snowfall of 6–13 inches in the Ohio Valley, high winds, and widespread freezing precipitation across a vast corridor from northern Mexico through the Southern Plains, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast.

The Chinese power group CHN Energy (CEIC) has commissioned the first 660 MW of its 2,640 MW Zhongwei coal-fired power plant project in the Gobi Desert, in the Autonomous Region of Ningxia, in northern China (CEIC press release, 03/02/2026).