In Paris they met Eric Besson, France's minister of industry and energy, and took part in a round-table discussion with both countries' energy and industrial leaders aimed at exchanging experience and developing partnerships. One result was the creation of a high level group jointly chaired by GDF-Suez CEO Gérard Mestrallet and Guillermo Luksic of the wide-ranging Quiñenco conglomerate.

Under the RCUK programme, Nanoscience through Engineering to Application, the EPSRC and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) are investing in four industry-led collaborative research and development projects that will address challenges in building the supply chain and scaling up technologies.

Trong khuôn khổ chương trình của hội đồng nghiên cứu Anh RCUK, Khoa học Nano từ nghiên cứu tới ứng dụng, Hội đồng nghiên cứu kĩ thuật và khoa học EPSRC và Viện chiến lược công nghệ (TSB) đang đầu tư vào 4 dự án hợp tác nghiên cứu và phát triển đầu ngành. Các dự án này đã chỉ ra các thách thức trong việc thiết lập chuỗi cung ứng và phát triển công nghệ.

France's consumption rose by 7% – and in Europe only Denmark and Ireland used less energy per unit of GDP than UK.The EU energy commissioner, Günther Oettinger, is expected to recommend member states are set individual targets on efficiency improvements.The UK is one of the top performers in Europe on energy efficiency, according to a European commission report.

The UK government has formally announced that it intends to set up a new independent statutory body to regulate nuclear power in the UK, taking over regulatory functions currently performed under the auspices of two different bodies.

UK regulator, the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA), has issued the subsidiaries of two major oil companies with penalties for not meeting biofuel standards. Under the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), companies supplying over 450,000 l of petrol or diesel to the UK market have to register with the RFA and match their supply with a percentage of biofuel, as well as providing information on its carbon intensity and sustainability.

Benbole Energy Farm, between St Kew and St Mabyn near Bodmin in North Cornwall, has been granted permission by Cornwall councillors following an application to develop the 10-acre site. It means the farm will provide up to 800 homes with green energy. Renewable energy consultants Silicon Valley Limited, who successfully applied for planning permission, say construction work will begin in January.

Ngày 26/01/2011, tại trụ sở Bộ Công Thương đã diễn ra Lễ ký kết Ý định thư hợp tác giữa Bộ Công Thương và Tổ chức phát triển công nghệ công nghiệp và năng lượng mới Nhật Bản (NEDO) trong lĩnh vực năng lượng tái tạo, tiết kiệm năng lượng và công nghệ Cộng đồng thông minh.Tham dự buổi lễ có Thứ trưởng Bộ Công Thương Hoàng Quốc Vượng và Tổng Giám đốc NEDO Takefumi Fukumizu cùng đại diện các cơ quan liên quan.

The Indian state of Gujarat has approved Asia’s first commercial-scale tidal power project in the Gulf of Kutch. The 50 MW tidal current power plant will be developed by UK company Atlantis Resources Corporation in partnership with Gujarat Power Corporation, with construction starting as early as 2011.

Li Keqiang, the top official tipped as China’s next Prime Minister, has begun a four-day visit to the UK with the announcement of a £6.4m licensing deal between Scottish and Sino-Scottish companies on clean energy development. Waste-to-energy technology developed by Scottish company W2E Engineering will be licensed to Sino-Scottish firm Shanghai Huanan Boiler and Vessel Cochran (SHBV Cochran) under the agreement.

A statement from the department on Saturday said that IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was in the country from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11, where he met senior officials from Philippine government agencies involved in the implementation of technical cooperation projects in various nuclear applications.

Cũng theo thông tin từ bộ ngoại giao Philippin, trong 3 ngày, từ 8 đến 11 tháng 12, Giám đốc IAEA, ông Yukiya Amano đã có chuyến thăm và gặp gỡ các quan chức cao cấp của chính phủ nước này về các vấn đề liên quan tới việc thực hiện những dự án hợp tác kĩ thuật trong các ứng dụng hạt nhân.

The UK Government today publishes its Energy Bill, which lays out the details of how the proposed Green Deal will work to make energy efficiency available to all. The bill confirms that businesses as well as homes will be able to participate in the Green Deal, when it starts in 2012.

PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas), the biggest liquid gas supplier in Vietnam intends to sell 15-20 percent of its shares to foreign investors to earn US$600 million. Chitrapongse Kwangsukstith, the chairman of PTT International Company Limited, a member of PTT Corporation in Thailand, said that his company pays a special attention to buying share of PV Gas.

According to information from the British Embassy, from November 22th to 26th, a trade mission of the Energy Industries Corporation of the UK (EIC) will come to Vietnam to explore investment opportunities in the oil industry. In HCM city, representatives of companies will have meeting with PetroVietnam and companies which were already established and operating in Vietnam market such as Chevron, Conoco Phillips, JVPC and Worley Parsons. The delegation will also visit and work with companies operating in the field of oil and gas in Vung Tau.

Quỹ Công nghệ sạch (CTF), 1 trong 2 quỹ đầu tư thuộc CIF sẽ hỗ trợ 14 nước gồm Algeria, Ai Cập, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Maroc, Philippines, Nam Phi, Thái Lan, Tunisie, Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, Ukraina và Việt Nam đầu tư xây dựng các nguồn năng lượng tái sinh quy mô lớn với tổng tài trợ lên tới 4,5 tỷ USD.

Các nước đang phát triển hối thúc Cơ quan Năng lượng Nguyên tử Quốc tế (IAEA) có biện pháp khuyến khích sử dụng năng lượng hạt nhân vì mục đích hòa bình trong các lĩnh vực như điện nguyên tử, y tế, an ninh lương thực và bảo vệ môi trường. Lời kêu gọi trên được đưa ra trong bối cảnh Đại hội đồng Liên hợp quốc (LHQ) đang triệu tập cuộc họp để đánh giá báo cáo đầu tiên của Tổng Giám đốc IAEA Yukiya Amano, kể từ khi ông nhậm chức vào tháng 9/2009.

The project was launched three years ago by Sanderson, a London-based marketing entrepreneur who is confident that it will attract the £15.5 million needed to be completed. Sanderson came up with the idea of an electric GT ten years ago at a motor show, inspired by the project’s technical director, Arthur Woolstenholme.

IPT (Induction Power Transfer) is the name of the world’s first commercially-available wireless electric car charging system, just launched in London. The brainchild of UK start-up HaloIPT wishes to electrify the England’s M25 motorway by using magnetic induction, a principle discovered in the 1800s.

Floating wind turbines are a little more complicated and require higher initial costs. But a new study, Project Deepwater, by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) in the UK has found that due to their greater ability to access stronger and more consistent winds deeper out at sea, they are more economically efficient in the long term.