A new £9.5m ($15m) wave and tidal energy centre is to be opened in Scotland.

State-owned Dena Energy Agency says that utilities operating in Germany should not be permitted to close unprofitable gas-fired power plants to safeguard supplies.

There was further bad news for the 1300 MW Visaginas nuclear power plant in Lithuania, as the project is now predicted to cost $2.6bn more than originally expected.

E.ON has announced the sale of its Open Grid Europe gas distribution network in a deal worth €3.2bn ($4.06bn).

UK Energy Minister Charles Hendry has conceded that part of the government’s Electricity Market Reform plans could fall foul of European Commission state aid rules.

Denmark has joined the Global Smart Grid Federation, an international group of technology associations.

German utility E.ON AG plans to shut down three large gas-fired power plants in southern Germany, because the plants don't operate profitably.

International engineering and construction company M+W Group, Stuttgart, has signed a contract to acquire Reliable Plant Solutions (RPS) GmbH based in Schkeuditz near Leipzig, Germany.

The new CEO of Franco-Belgian Solvay, has accused Germany, France and Belgium of acting in isolation on nuclear and gas policy and failing to come up with a coherent strategy to keep Europe’s companies competitive.

RWE has begun constructing its fourth wind farm in Poland.

Lithuania's government have given its final approval to the development of a new nuclear power plant which could cost up to $9.10bn to build.

US-based Invenergy LLC, a renewable-power developer, has completed three wind farms using General Electric Co. turbines in Poland, in conjunction with local company Enerco.

The Maltese government is part of an international consortium that has recently submitted a proposal to the European Commission to be eligible for the funding of a €30m research project dealing with deep offshore wind farms under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The world’s largest carbon capture and storage demonstration project was launched in Norway yesterday.

Pulse Tidal Limited has been awarded a lease for deployment of its commercial scale tidal power machine on a shallow seabed near Lynmouth in Devon, on the south coast of England.

Swedish power company Vattenfall is claiming a successful first quarter of 2012 after posting profits of SEK 13.6bn ($2bn), a rise of 92.4 per cent on the same period last year.

Scotland would refuse to pay for all the decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants on its soil if it were to win independence from the rest of the UK.

Denmark’s grid operator Energinet and its UK counterpart National Grid want to build the first electricity interconnection between the countries.

Vestas has signed a wind farm service agreement in Italy for 268 MW.