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2008

 * December 23, 2008: Gas Exporting Countries Forum met in Moscow to finalize and adopt a charter of the organization.
 * December 22, 2008: The largest-ever coal fly ash release in the United States occurs when a coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee, releases more than one billion gallons of fly ash slurry into the surrounding area.
 * December 11, 2008: Barack Obama announced he will nominate Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, to be the United States Secretary of Energy.
 * October 28, 2008: The British government announced that it will mandate smart meter installations for all households (up to 47 million) by 2020.
 * August 6, 2008: An explosion on the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline has halted the oil supplies through one of the biggest pipelines in the world.
 * July 22, 2008: The world's second-largest utility company GDF Suez was formed by the merger of Gaz de France and Suez.
 * July 11, 2008: The world largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Sheikha of Qatar.
 * July 1, 2008: Russian electricity holding company RAO UES completed the corporate reorganization and ceased to exist after its merger with and into UES FGC, the Federal Grid Company of Russia.
 * June 20, 2008: The Chinese government announced an increase in petrol prices of more than 16%, reducing the subsidies available under its policy in reaction to globally rising oil prices.
 * June 15, 2008: European Wind Day 2008 organized by EWEA, with over 100 wind farms across Europe, opens to the public.
 * May 28, 2008: Indonesia announced decision to quit OPEC.
 * May 27, 2008: An unplanned shutdown at Sizewell B nuclear power station causes power outages in London.
 * May 18, 2008: The annual Greasestock festival was held in Yorktown, New York, showcasing alternative fuel vehicles.
 * May 13, 2008: Australia elected to limit solar rebates to those with an income of less than AU$100,000, estimated to cause reduction of solar installations by 60%.
 * March 31, 2008: The United States appoints a Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.
 * March 7, 2008: Construction of the Medgaz pipeline between Algeria and Spain is started.
 * February 25, 2008: Teesside Power Station, the largest CCGT plant in Europe was acquired jointly by Gaz de France and Suez.
 * February 25, 2008: Hungary agreed to join the controversial South Stream gas pipeline project.
 * February 22, 2008: Construction of the second West-East Gas Pipeline across China has started.
 * February 21, 2008: The Shtokman Development Company, a joint operating company to develop giant Shtokman gas field first phase, was incorporated by Gazprom, Total and StatoilHydro in Zug, Switzerland.
 * February 18, 2008: The Arab Gas Pipeline reached to Syria.
 * February 13, 2008: The Government of Bulgaria decided to set up a Bulgarian state-owned energy holding company composed of gas company Bulgargaz, power company NEK EAD, Kozloduy nuclear power plant, Maritza-Iztok II thermal power plant, and the Mini Maritza Iztok (Maritza Iztok mines).
 * February 13, 2008: First gas was delivered trough the West African Gas Pipeline.
 * February 12, 2008: The Swedish government rejects Nord Stream's application to build an underwater gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.
 * January 25, 2008: Serbia agreed to sell a controlling stake in Naftna Industrija Srbije to Gazprom in return of stake in the South Stream project.
 * January 18, 2008: Atomstroyexport and Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEC) signed the contract for supplying two AES-92 VVER-1000 reactors to the Belene Nuclear Power Plant.
 * January 18, 2008: Gazprom and Eni registered a joint venture for construction of South Stream gas pipeline.
 * January 8, 2008: Statnett and E.ON Netz launch joint feasibility study for NORD.LINK, a submarine HVDC cable between Norway and Germany.