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• The development of renewable energy in Iceland means that by 2050 the country should be the world's first zero-carbon economy?

• World's two largest oil shale-fired power plants (Narva Power Plants) generate more than 90% of power in Estonia?

• NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?

• The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

• Despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 20% of Australia's crude oil?

• 4.26 million tonnes of the Sun are converted to energy every second by nuclear fusion?

• The first gasworks in the United Kingdom was built by the Gas Light and Coke Company, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1812?

• The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline was a central plot point in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough?