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2010

• 11 December 2010: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline.
• 9 December 2010: Belwind, the largest wind farm in Belgium starts operating.
• 30 November 2010: Ernst & Young's latest "Country Attractiveness Indices" report shows China leads as the most attractive country for renewable energy investment.
• 22 November 2010: Construction of the third and fourth units of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station starts.
• 17 November 2010: Construction of the third unit of the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station starts.
• 9 November 2010: The International Energy Agency publishes its World Energy Outlook 2010, which for the first time in its history presents a scenario that takes account of commitments to tackle climate change.
• 27 October 2010: The 370 MW Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, located in California's Mojave Desert, becomes the world's largest solar thermal power plant currently under construction.
• 27 September 2010: The first unit of the Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant's second phase starts commercial operations.
• 24 September 2010: Brazilian oil company Petrobras sets the all times record in a public offering selling new shares worth US$67 billion.
• 17 September 2010: California licenses the world’s biggest solar thermal plant, the Blythe Solar Power Project.
• 1 September 2010: EU ban on 75W bulbs comes into force (Wikinews)
• 31 August 2010: Nuclear power giant Exelon bought John Deere Renewables, and is moving into wind power.
• 29 July 2010: Construction of the world's largest wind project, the 1,550 MW Alta Wind Energy Center in California, starts.
• 27 July 2010: Israeli company S.D.E. Energy starts building a large-scale Jaffa Port sea wave power plant.
• 14 July 2010: Archimede solar power plant, which combines molten salt heat transfer and storage technology and combined-cycle gas facility, is commissioned.
• 28 June 2010: The drilling rig operator Noble Corporation enters into a definitive agreement to buy Frontier Drilling for US$2.16 billion
• 25 June 2010: Shareholders of XTO Energy approve a merger with ExxonMobil.
• 17 June 2010: Swedish Parliament passes a law allowing a replacement of the existing nuclear capacities of Sweden with new reactors first time after the nuclear moratorium of 1980.
• 11 June 2010: Bulgaria terminates the Burgas–Alexandroupoli pipeline project due environmental concerns.
• 11 June 2010: Dutch gas transportation company Gasunie joins the NEL pipeline project which will transport natural gas from the Nord Stream pipeline to the German gas grid.
• 10 June 2010: The first natural gas liquefaction plant in South America, Peru LNG, is inaugurated.
• 9 June 2010: APX-ENDEX, Belpex and Nord Pool Spot agree to create a cross-border intraday electricity market, which include Nordic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
• 9 June 2010: The Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company cooperates with Spain's Abengoa Solar and France's Total S.A. to build the Shams solar power station, the largest solar power station in the world.
• 9 June 2010: The Russian uranium producers ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. takes control in the Canadian uranium mining company Uranium One.
• 1 June 2010: After 24-year delay construction of the Angra III Nuclear Power Plant restarts.
• 31 May 2010: Market regulators approve an acquisition of the Nordic financial energy market Nord Pool by NASDAQ OMX.
• 20 May 2010: E.ON Ruhrgas becomes a partner in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project.
• 13 May 2010: The Aban Pearl drilling rig sank when drilling at the Dragon 6 gas field on the Mariscal Sucre complex off the coast of northeastern Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
• 29 April 2010: The Swedish government has approved a plan to increase the electrical generating capacity of Unit 2 in the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant.
• 25 April 2010: Construction of the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant starts.
• 21 April 2010: Government of Finland decides to allow construction of the sixth and seventh nuclear reactors in Finland.
• 29 April 2010: The oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico reaches the Louisiana coast.
• 13 April 2010: Memorandum on construction of the Azerbaijan–Georgia–Romania Interconnector is signed.
• 9 April 2010: Construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is launched.
• 7 April 2010: Ambassador of Turkey to the European Union Selim Kuneralp is appointed the chairman of the Energy Charter Conference.
• 24 February 2010: Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station restarts after last years accident.
• 24 February 2010: RasGas, a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil, starts its seventh LNG train ensuring the Qatar's position as the world's biggest producer of liquefied natural gas.
• 5 February 2010: The start-up of production from Shtokman field is delayed three years to 2016.
• 3 February 2010: Bulgaria ratifies the intergovernmental agreement on Nabucco pipeline.
• 3 February 2010: The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that in 2009 the world capacity of installed wind turbines grew 31% to reach 157.9 GW.
• 6 January 2010: President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow inaugurate the Dauletabad – Salyp Yar pipeline between the countries.