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2012

 * 2012-11-05: The NEL pipeline, a land-based branch of Nord Stream, becomes operational.
 * 2012-10-23: Construction of the third 7,378 km West–East Gas Pipeline starts in China.
 * 2012-10-22: Rosneft acquires Russian third largest oil company TNK-BP.
 * 2012-09-27: Norway's Crown Prince Haakon inaugurates the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm built off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom.
 * 2012-09-22: The 845 megawatt Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is officially opened in Oregon.
 * 2012-09-20: Inauguration of the EirGrid Interconnector, the first submarine electricity cable between Great Britain and Ireland, takes place in Meath, Ireland.
 * 2012-08-25: A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Falcón, Venezuela, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 80 others.
 * 2012-08-15: After commissioning two new units, the Neurath Power Station in Germany becomes the world largest lignite-fired power station.
 * 2012-07-06: Release of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012, written by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt, shows nuclear power accounts for 11 percent of worldwide electricity generation.
 * 2012-07-03: The merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy creates the largest energy utility in the United States.
 * 2012-06-28: Following increased dominance of the world's photovoltaics market by Chinese companies, Abound Solar, a US manufacturer of cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic modules, files for bankruptcy protection.
 * 2012-06-28: The oil major BP drops the South East Europe Pipeline proposal for transporting Azerbaijani natural gas to Europe by preferring competing Nabucco West and Trans Adriatic Pipeline projects.
 * 2012-06-28: The Malaysian oil major Petronas buys Canadian gas exploration company Progress Energy Resources for C$5.5 billion.
 * 2012-06-26: Azerbaijan and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline.
 * 2012-06-21: The Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline, allowing oil export from the Persian Gulf by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, becomes operational.
 * 2012-05-22 The last unit of coal-fired Swanbank B Power Station within South East Queensland in Australia is decommissoned.
 * 2012-05-04 Groundbreaking works begin on two new reactors at the Uljin Nuclear Power Plant in Korea.
 * 2012-04-16: Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner submits a bill that would nationalise 51% of YPF, a subsidiary of Repsol YPF.
 * 2012-04-02: Solar Trust of America, a developer of the Blythe Solar Power Project, files for bankruptcy protection.
 * 2012-03-30: RWE npower and E.ON decide not to develop any more nuclear power plants in the UK, putting the UK nuclear renaissance in doubt.
 * 2012-03-25: A gas leak occurs at the Elgin–Franklin fields.
 * 2012-03-01: The IPCC appoints Benjamin K. Sovacool, an energy policy analyst, to its climate change mitigation Working Group.
 * 2012-02-29: Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, the oldest operational nuclear power station in the world, ceases its operations.
 * 2012-02-22: The 150 MW Ormonde Wind Farm in the Irish Sea becomes fully operational.
 * 2012-02-22: The 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, in California's Mojave Desert, is awarded the concentrating solar power (CSP) Project of the Year Award by Solar Power Generation USA.
 * 2012-02-09: The world's largest offshore wind farm, the 367 MW Walney Wind Farm is officially opened by the new UK energy secretary, Ed Davey.
 * 2012-02-08: In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Nobel Laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, while speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, said that the country has an "ethical responsibility" to abandon nuclear power.
 * 2012-02-07: Wind power capacity now totals 238 gigawatts worldwide, an increase of 41 gigawatts in 2011, led by China.