China is currently the best country in the world for renewable energy investment, while India has the strongest potential for conventional power investors, according to a new report.

The Algerian minister for energy, Yousef Yousfi says his country plans to build its first nuclear power plant by 2025.

The UK energy secretary, Ed Davey and the deputy prime minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich this week signed an agreement that could ease the way for Russian-state owned Rosatom to begin building nuclear power plants in Britain.

The European Commission has proposed new legislation, allowing nuclear power plants to be tested every six years, in a bid to improve safety in the sector.

An Estonian renewable energy developer has opened the biggest wind farm in neighbouring Lithuania, the $76.5m Ciuteliai plant.

The Deputy CEO of Rosatom says his company is keen to build nuclear power plants in Brazil.

At the closing reception of POWER-GEN Europe in Vienna on Thursday, the best conference speakers were honoured for their contributions during the event.

The European Union’s decarbonisation strategy has all the right intentions but it is taking the wrong path to that destination.

Money that has in recent years been spent on the manufacture on new forms of decarbonisation would have been better spent being ploughed into R&D for those projects.

An insight into the state of the nuclear power generation industries in Russia, Slovakia and Switzerland was provided at the POWER-GEN 2013 event in Vienna on Wednesday.

There was disappointment for renewable power generation firms on Wednesday when the House of Commons in London voted against a bid by green energy businesses to decarbonise the UK’s electricity generation by 2030.

Turkey is expected to double its energy infrastructure in the next 10 years and is “willing to integrate fully with the rest of Europe”, its Deputy Energy Minister said today.

Negotiations between EDF and the UK government regarding the development of the Hinckley Point nuclear power plant appear to have made some marginal progress this week.

Enel SpA says it may have to halt work on nuclear power development in Slovakia unless the government approves a plan to increase financing for the project.

The UK energy secretary, Edward Davey, says the country will urge the EU to adopt a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 per cent by 2030. However Mr Davey called mooted EU plans to increase renewable power generation as “inflexible and unnecessary.”

Two nuclear reactors have been temporarily suspended in South Korea and two more reactors have been postponed, after allegations involving the supply of fake parts were made.

Vattenfall has upgraded the nuclear reactors at its Forsmark and Ringhals power plants in Sweden.

Danish company Vestas has deployed three ZephIR 300 Lidar systems at the 420 MW Macarthur wind farm in Australia - the southern hemisphere's largest wind project.

Among the most demanding and potentially hazardous aspects of decommissioning liquid metal cooled reactors is dealing with the coolant.