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2010

 * 2010-12-11: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline.
 * 2010-12-09: Belwind, the largest wind farm in Belgium starts operating.
 * 2010-11-30: Ernst & Young's latest "Country Attractiveness Indices" report shows China leads as the most attractive country for renewable energy investment.
 * 2010-11-22: Construction of the third and fourth units of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station starts.
 * 2010-11-17: Construction of the third unit of the Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station starts.
 * 2010-11-09: 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.
 * 2010-10-27: 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.
 * 2010-09-27: The first unit of the Ling Ao Nuclear Power Plant's second phase starts commercial operations.
 * 2010-09-24: Brazilian oil company Petrobras sets the all times record in a public offering selling new shares worth US$67 billion.
 * 2010-09-17: California licenses the world’s biggest solar thermal plant, the Blythe Solar Power Project.
 * 2010-09-01: EU ban on 75W bulbs comes into force (Wikinews)
 * 2010-08-31: Nuclear power giant Exelon bought John Deere Renewables, and is moving into wind power.
 * 2010-07-29: Construction of the world's largest wind project, the 1,550 MW Alta Wind Energy Center in California, starts.
 * 2010-07-27: Israeli company S.D.E. Energy starts building a large-scale Jaffa Port sea wave power plant.
 * 2010-07-14: Archimede solar power plant, which combines molten salt heat transfer and storage technology and combined-cycle gas facility, is commissioned.
 * 2010-06-28: The drilling rig operator Noble Corporation enters into a definitive agreement to buy Frontier Drilling for US$2.16 billion
 * 2010-06-25: Shareholders of XTO Energy approve a merger with ExxonMobil.
 * 2010-06-17: 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.
 * 2010-06-11: Bulgaria terminates the Burgas–Alexandroupoli pipeline project due environmental concerns.
 * 2010-06-11: 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.
 * 2010-06-10: The first natural gas liquefaction plant in South America, Peru LNG, is inaugurated.
 * 2010-06-09: 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.
 * 2010-06-09: 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.
 * 2010-06-09: The Russian uranium producers ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. takes control in the Canadian uranium mining company Uranium One.
 * 2010-06-01: After 24-year delay construction of the Angra III Nuclear Power Plant restarts.
 * 2010-05-31: Market regulators approve an acquisition of the Nordic financial energy market Nord Pool by NASDAQ OMX.
 * 2010-05-20: E.ON Ruhrgas becomes a partner in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline project.
 * 2010-05-13: 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.
 * 2010-04-29: The Swedish government has approved a plan to increase the electrical generating capacity of Unit 2 in the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant.
 * 2010-04-25: Construction of the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant starts.
 * 2010-04-21: Government of Finland decides to allow construction of the sixth and seventh nuclear reactors in Finland.
 * 2010-04-29: The oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico reaches the Louisiana coast.
 * 2010-04-13: Memorandum on construction of the Azerbaijan–Georgia–Romania Interconnector is signed.
 * 2010-04-09: Construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is launched.
 * 2010-04-07: Ambassador of Turkey to the European Union Selim Kuneralp is appointed the chairman of the Energy Charter Conference.
 * 2010-02-24: Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station restarts after last years accident.
 * 2010-02-24: 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.
 * 2010-02-05: The start-up of production from Shtokman field is delayed three years to 2016.
 * 2010-02-03: Bulgaria ratifies the intergovernmental agreement on Nabucco pipeline.
 * 2010-02-03: The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that in 2009 the world capacity of installed wind turbines grew 31% to reach 157.9 GW.
 * 2010-01-06: President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow inaugurate the Dauletabad – Salyp Yar pipeline between the countries.