The ageing reactor fleet across Europe is reaching its 40th year in many countries and decommissioning of these plants is inevitable.

By August production of crude oil had risen to 10.6 million b/d in the United States,

The UAE's Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) and Saudi Arabia's Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission (NRRC) have agreed to cooperate in nuclear and radiation regulatory matters, and to form topical working groups.

Qatar currently has an LNG production capacity of some 77 million mt/year, but has plans to boost it to 110 million mt/year by 2025 with the addition of four more trains and to 126 million mt/year by 2027 with the addition of two further trains.

The pressure on Energy Solution Providers has been building for quite some time. Instead of backing coal, new finance is getting behind renewable energy and putting shareholder pressure on forcing decisions on those still involved in the fossil fuel areas.

For the offshore wind sector in general, 2020 is shaping up to be a very successful and promising year.

The main question is how to design a better system of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Energy, with low carbon, without reducing the reliability and without imposing undue and unnecessary costs.

"Nuclear power is enjoying a sustained growth in capacity at the fastest rate in 25 years,"

EIA forecasts wind’s share to reach 10.3% in 2021.

Goldman Sachs predicted that green hydrogen will become a $12-trillion market by 2050.

The global oil demand forecast for 2020 is revised down by 0.3 mb/d. For 2021, oil demand growth is expected to grow by 6.2 mb/d, y-o-y, representing a downward revision of 0.3 mb/d compared to last month’s assessment.

"If you look at it in terms of energy efficiency, nuclear energy is not the most efficient way of developing electricity. Solar energy probably offers better efficiency in the long-run, while in the short-run because of the depressed price of oil, countries are finding it more economic to just import oil."

President Xi Jinping said China's carbon emission will peak by 2030 and it will attain carbon neutrality by 2060, and thus make a huge contribution to the global fight against climate change.

Annual investment in renewables would need to almost triple from an average of just below USD 300 billion in 2013-2018 to almost USD 800 billion through 2050.

In sharp contrast to all other fuels, renewables used for generating electricity will grow by almost 7% in 2020.