07.07.2014
- Europe could eventually get a tenth of its power needs from shale gas if it can overcome reservations such as those voiced in recommendations from two German cabinet ministers, a...
22.05.2014
- A British plan to compensate certain energy-intensive industries for higher energy costs resulting from its carbon price floor is in line with EU state aid rules, the European...
15.04.2014
- European utility companies are filling up gas storage sites to prepare for a potential Russian supply cut to Ukraine, the news agency Reuters reports. Russia says it is now owed...
31.03.2014
- BASF oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall plans to drill up to five test wells in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with an eye to carrying out hydraulic fracturing, or...
02.02.2013
- Germany's upper house of parliament passed a resolution on Friday urging Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to tighten the rules for controversial modern drilling techniques, or...
25.09.2012
- Germany must rein in the runaway costs of subsidising electricity from renewable sources or risk overburdening consumers, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on...
