Iran's Oil Minister said at a press conference on Monday (September 7) that Iran hopes to develop the EU's natural gas business by shipping liquefied natural gas to Spain.

In the next 10 years, Germany plans to shut down all domestic nuclear power plants. At the same time, France, one of the world's leading countries in nuclear power, plans to reduce nuclear power generation from 75% of the country's total power generation now to 50% in 2025. At present, the country has not announced specifically which reactors will be shut down.

EnergyTrend estimates that the total global solar installed capacity will reach 52GW in 2015, and China, the United States, and Japan will account for 63% of the world's installed capacity. In the first quarter, EnergyTrend calculated that the global installed capacity exceeded 12GW, and the full-year target should be achieved.

According to Japanese media reports, the Kawakawa Nuclear Power Plant located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, has previously passed the review of relevant departments and became the first nuclear power plant in Japan to comply with the new national control standards.

Oil prices reportedly jumped to their highest level so far this year yesterday, approaching $70 a barrel, accelerating a sell-off in global debt markets.

Gazprom President Miller said on the 2nd that the price of Russian natural gas supplied to Ukraine in the second quarter of this year was US$247.18 per thousand cubic meters.

People who buy electric cars in France will benefit from government subsidies. The French government is currently planning to further increase the purchase subsidy for electric vehicles, and plans to significantly increase the subsidy for pure electric vehicles from 6,300 euros to 10,000 euros.

The clarion call for a rebound in oil prices is sounding. Although there are still differences in the industry's judgment on the market outlook, Brent crude oil futures and U.S. crude oil futures have risen strongly by about $9 in the past four trading days, a cumulative increase of 19%.