Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi announced that the country is willing to further develop its cooperation with Russia in building more nuclear power plants.

• August 30, 2011

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigursdottir. They discussed possibilities for strengthening bilateral cooperation, NATO issues of concern, Iceland's eurointegration process. Much focus in the meeting was on alternative energy.

• August 29, 2011

Ukraine is seeking to buy natural gas from Azerbaijan and boost its own output to cut Russian fuel imports in five years, Kommersant-Ukraine reported, citing an unidentified official from the Energy and Coal Ministry.

• August 29, 2011

A former top diplomat vying to become the next prime minister proposed Saturday that Japan stop building new nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster and phase out atomic energy over 40 years.

• August 27, 2011

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has agreed to earmark some dollar funds from foreign exchange reserves, reversing its earlier stance, to partly fund the government's strategic wealth fund that will buy energy assets overseas, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

• August 27, 2011

China has "vastly increased" the risk of a nuclear accident by opting for cheap technology that will be 100 years old by the time dozens of its reactors reach the end of their lifespans, according to diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Beijing.

• August 26, 2011

India expects investments of 300 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) in renewable energy projects in the current financial year, the minister for renewable energy said Friday. India plans to add 3,400 megawatt.

• August 26, 2011

The country is planning to expand its gas production at the Black Sea shelf as well as to develop shale gas production with the help of foreign partners.

• August 26, 2011