European Union leaders are set to keep pressure high on Russia at a summit this week when they will underline that work continues on sanctions.

The 190,000 tons shipped in May brings the year-to-date figure to 380,000 tons, nearly 1,000% higher than the same period in 2021.

State-controlled Verbund, Austria’s biggest utility and most valuable company, was ordered late Sunday to prepare its mothballed Mellach coal-fired station for operation.

The German government is preparing to fire up more coal plants to keep the use of gas at a minimum.

The UK aims to keep a reserve of coal-fired plants available this winter rather than shutting almost all of them as planned

The companies are looking at options to build a 1-gigawatt wind farm to power operations in the Troll and Oseberg oil and gas fields in the North Sea.

The world’s biggest base-metals bourse will require members to disclose all over-the-counter positions of their clients on a weekly basis starting on July 18.