Iran's First Vice President Dawudi attended the opening ceremony of the new nuclear power plant facilities in Bushehr on the 3rd. He said in his speech that "putting the nuclear power plant into operation has been Iran's long-standing and ambitious goal."

According to The Statesman in Ghana, the Ghanaian government has recently enacted tighter power rationing regulations. Recently, Tony Oteng-Gyasi, Chairman of the Association of Ghana Industries, called at a press conference that the government should actively start formulating a long-term development plan for the power industry and take measures to open up the domestic power supply market to prom

Optimistic about the development prospects of the clean energy market, the Singapore Economic Development Board announced on the 26th that it will allocate an additional S$180 million (approximately US$118 million) to develop new clean energy products and focus on cultivating clean energy talents in the next five years.

Agriculture and mining have long been the two main economic pillars of Namibia. Mining is the main source of foreign exchange earnings, while employment opportunities mainly rely on agriculture. In view of the unstable prices of agricultural products and copper, today's focus: diamonds, gold, lead, uranium and zinc, the Namibian government is vigorously developing energy and striving to diversify

According to Ethiopian media reports, India's Enercon suddenly withdrew from the final stage of contract negotiations with the state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power Company for a 24,000-kilowatt wind power plant project, causing the project to abort.

Russia plans to significantly increase its nuclear power generation capacity by building two nuclear reactors per year by 2015 and increasing their number to four per year by 2020. According to the federal government plan, Russia will build two 10-gigawatt nuclear reactors every year.

The European Commission proposed on the 13th to gradually narrow the differences in consumption taxes levied on diesel for trucks among member states to prevent drivers from detouring to countries with low tax rates to reduce costs and cause unnecessary environmental damage.

The International Energy Agency on Tuesday raised its 2006 oil consumption forecast for the second consecutive month but kept its consumption forecast for this year unchanged due to weak oil demand in January.