Greek energy regulator RAE has called for an excise tax on natural gas and electricity - which has "led to distortions on the market" and upwardly spiralling...

New Albanian laws could push large energy customers away from the state-owed incumbent and towards the liberalised market, a source active on the Albanian...

Austria has suspended plans to auction off 200,000 EU allowances (EUAs) until next year after the carbon spot price fell below the minimum price set for...

In the story headlined "Spanish hydroelectric stocks 11% above five-year average", in the headline please read "Spanish hydroelectric stocks 11 points above five-year average". Available Spanish...

A second consecutive weekly drop in French hydroelectric stocks in week 48 has had little impact on wholesale electricity prices, with ongoing mild weather...

Irish energy regulators CER and Utility Regulator are considering demand-side restrictions to natural gas consumption as a mitigating measure to address...

Kansai Electric shut down its 826MW No 2 reactor of its 3.39GW Takahama Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on Friday last week, leaving only three of the company's...

In the week to 28 November, European gas in storage decreased by 1.3 billion cubic metres (Gm³), according to Gas Storage Europe (GSE). This is the largest...

Prices for delivery to Japan in January and February saw a slight recovery on Tuesday. While there were no reports of a fundamental change in demand profiles,...

Polish natural gas incumbent PGNiG has submitted plans to energy regulator URE to push ahead with the legal unbundling of its storage assets, it said late...

Polish competition authority UOKiK has approved Polish natural gas incumbent PGNiG's planned purchase of Vattenfall Heat Poland (VHP), the regulator said...

The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) is close to taking over the Polish Power Exchange PolPX before the end of the year, according to a source. Market participants...

There has been a "significant overestimation" regarding the volume of power produced by the UK's wind farms on the part of investors for a number of years,...

Hungarian energy regulator MEH has awarded a licence to power exchange HUPX to operate the country's planned natural gas bourse, the CEEGEX, regulator documents...

Russia's natural gas producer Gazprom and Belarus's incumbent Beltransgaz on Monday signed an annex to their 2007-2011 supply agreement regulating prices...

Russian natural gas is still the greatest source of imports for Italy despite the reopening of the Italian-Libyan pipeline GreenStream, according to monthly...

The UK government is giving £250m (€293m) to energy-intensive industries to alleviate the indirect costs caused by the carbon price floor and the EU Emissions...

UK coal stocks held by electricity generators rose to their highest level this year in September, as imports and domestic production increased while consumption...

Pressure from a number of UK business lobby groups for heavy emitters has seen the UK offer rebates to help with the pass-through costs of the country's...

Bids for unconventional gas exploration licenses in the UK are expected to soar, when the UK's 14th onshore licensing round takes place in early 2012, despite...