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UK: Floating Solar Farm Prepares To Power Up

UK: Floating Solar Farm Prepares To Power Up

No turbines or chimney stacks, just 23,000 solar cells silently bobbing on the water. Europe's largest floating power station is near completion. When the £6.5m solar farm goes fully online, it will help power water treatment works on the outskirts of London

Brussels Attacks: At Least 26 Dead at Zaventem and Maelbeek

Brussels Attacks: At Least 26 Dead at Zaventem and Maelbeek

At least 26 people have been killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station. Twin blasts hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT, killing 11 and injuring 81, the health minister said

Germanys Osram Starts Building 23 Mln Euro Plant in Bulgaria

Germany's Osram Starts Building 23 Mln Euro Plant in Bulgaria

Germany's light manufacturer Osram will launch on Tuesday the construction of a 45 million lev ($25.9 million/23 million euro) plant in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv, the country's economy ministry said on Monday

Oil Producers Want to Prop Up Prices

Oil Producers Want to Prop Up Prices

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC members will meet on April 17 in Doha in a bid to stabilise falling crude prices, Qatar’s Energy Minister Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada reportedly said on March 16

SunEdison Delays Release of 2015 Annual Financial Report

SunEdison Delays Release of 2015 Annual Financial Report

Another chapter in the increasingly compelling page-turner that is SunEdison’s operations was written today following the company’s announcement that it is delaying the filing of its 2015 financial report

EU Wants Gazprom Anti-Trust Answers Over Bulgaria Gas

EU Wants Gazprom Anti-Trust Answers Over Bulgaria Gas

The European Commission sent Russian gas monopoly Gazprom a formal request in February to provide information in connection with an alleged violation of antitrust legislation in gas supplies by its affiliated companies in Bulgaria, Interfax quoted Gazprom as saying on March 15 in a memorandum for a new Eurobond offering

OPEC Trims 2016 Outlook for Its Oil

OPEC Trims 2016 Outlook for Its Oil

OPEC expects lower demand for its oil in 2016 than it previously forecast. The oil cartel's crude demand forecast was revised down by 100,000 barrels per day for the full-year, slightly lower than its estimate last month, according to a report released Monday

Putin Orders to Begin Withdrawal of Russian Forces from Syria Starting March 15

Putin Orders to Begin Withdrawal of Russian Forces from Syria Starting March 15

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued an order to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria starting from March 15. "I think that the tasks set to the defense ministry aregenerally fulfilled. That is why I order to begin withdrawal of most of our military group from Syria starting from tomorrow," Putin said on Monday

IEA Sees Signs Oil Prices Might Have Bottomed Out

IEA Sees Signs Oil Prices Might Have Bottomed Out

Crude-oil prices may have "bottomed out” as Iran’s return to the market has been less dramatic than the country promised, and OPEC production fell in February, the International Energy Agency said on Friday

5 Years After Fukushima Disaster, the Commission Clears EDF – CGN Nuclear Partnership

5 Years After Fukushima Disaster, the Commission Clears EDF – CGN Nuclear Partnership

A discussion over decommissioning funds was raised during the Midday briefing, as the European Commission announced the approval of merger between Électricité de France (‘EDF’) of France and China General Nuclear Power Group (‘CGN’) of China in relation to the development, construction and operation of three nuclear power plants in the UK at Hinkley Point, Sizewell and Bradwell

TAP Awards Onshore Construction Contracts for Albanian and Greek Pipeline Sections

TAP Awards Onshore Construction Contracts for Albanian and Greek Pipeline Sections

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has awarded the contracts for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of approximately 760km of cross-country onshore pipeline - 48 inches (1.2m) in diameter - in Greece and Albania. TAP’s construction is split into five lots (or sections) – three lots in Greece and two lots in Albania