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2013

 * 2013-08-01: Duke Energy terminates the engineering, procurement and construction contracts for the planned Levy County Nuclear Power Plant.
 * 2013-07-04: The London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm, is inaugurated.
 * 2013-06-16: The Angola LNG plant ships first gas cargo.
 * 2013-06-13: The Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant project has temporary stopped due to design reconsiderations.
 * 2013-06-07: The first unit of the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant enters commercial operation.
 * 2013-05-21: Ernest Moniz becomes the 13th United States Secretary of Energy.
 * 2013-04-03: BP announces a plan to sell its United States wind energy unit.
 * 2013-03-30: Natural gas production starts at the Tamar gas field off Israel.
 * 2013-03-29: Fire at the Vuhlehirska power station in Ukraine destroys four power units with one employee killed and eight hospitalized.
 * 2013-03-21: Russian oil company Rosneft becomes the largest publicly listed oil company in the world after completing the acquisition of TNK-BP.
 * 2013-03-19: China completes the 880-km Lanzhou–Chengdu crude oil pipeline.
 * 2013-03-17: 100-MW Shams 1 solar plant becomes operational in Abu Dhabi.
 * 2013-03-12: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation successfully extracts natural gas from frozen methane hydrate offshore deposit first in the world.
 * 2013-03-07: The Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant, the Indian first Ultra Mega Power Project, becomes operational.
 * 2013-01-14: The Gazela pipeline in the Czech Republic becomes operational.