Nord Pool Spot, the Estonian transmission system operator Elering and the Finnish system operator Fingrid are finishing their preparations for Estonia to join the intraday market Elbas. Target date for the launch is October 19, 2010.

• September 29, 2010

Russia and China broke the ice in their long-cool energy relationship on Monday as they prepared to open a pipeline that will bring Siberian crude oil to China, but a similar agreement on gas proved a bridge too far.

• September 28, 2010

Belarus' hardy autocratic ruler, Aleksander Lukashenko, is set to suffer a small blow to his image ahead of upcoming elections when the EU renews its travel ban on the President and 35 of his officials next month.

• September 28, 2010

One of the biggest producers of wood granules in Estonia – Graanul Invest – is planning to invest hundreds of millions of kroons in Estonia and in the other Baltic states in coming years in order to establish a total of five combined heat and power plants, LETA/Eesti Paevaleht writes.

• September 28, 2010

Russia has massive stores of natural gas and its economy needs a cash infusion from sales to get it through the economic downturn that has crimped oil sales.

• September 28, 2010

China and Russia celebrated the expansion of their economic and political ties with more energy deals on Monday, one day after Russian President Medvedev said the two nations had forged an "indestructible" friendship that was "sealed by blood" in their wartime alliance.

• September 28, 2010

China last Tuesday stepped up its efforts to boost energy conservation across the country, enforcing new rules that demand energy-saving assessments be carried out on new fixed-asset investment projects.

• September 26, 2010

Belarus' oil company said Friday that it was negotiating Venezuela crude imports via Latvia's ports of Ventspils and Riga.

• September 26, 2010