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2012 5 November 2012: The NEL pipeline Nord Stream , becomes operational.
23 October 2012: Construction of the third 7,378-kilometre (4,584 mi) West–East Gas Pipeline
22 October 2012: Rosneft acquires Russian third largest oil company TNK-BP
27 September 2012: Norway 's Crown Prince Haakon inaugurates the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm Norfolk , United Kingdom .
22 September 2012: The 845 megawatt Shepherds Flat Wind Farm Oregon .
20 September 2012: Inauguration of the EirGrid Interconnector Meath , Ireland.
25 August 2012: A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex Falcón , Venezuela , kills at least 39 people and injures more than 80 others.
15 August 2012: After commissioning two new units, the Neurath Power Station Germany becomes the world largest lignite -fired power station.
6 July 2012: Release of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012 Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt , shows nuclear power accounts for 11 percent of worldwide electricity generation.
3 July 2012: The merger of Duke Energy Progress Energy energy utility in the United States.
28 June 2012: Following increased dominance of the world's photovoltaics market by Chinese companies, Abound Solar cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic modules, files for bankruptcy protection.
28 June 2012: The oil major BP drops the South East Europe Pipeline Azerbaijani natural gas to Europe by preferring competing Nabucco West Trans Adriatic Pipeline
28 June 2012: The Malaysian oil major Petronas buys Canadian gas exploration company Progress Energy Resources
26 June 2012: Azerbaijan and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline
21 June 2012: The Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline Persian Gulf by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz , becomes operational.
22 May 2012 The last unit of coal-fired Swanbank B Power Station South East Queensland in Australia is decommissoned.
4 May 2012 Groundbreaking works begin on two new reactors at the Uljin Nuclear Power Plant
16 April 2012: Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner submits a bill that would nationalise 51% of YPF Repsol YPF .
2 April 2012: Solar Trust of America Blythe Solar Power Project , files for bankruptcy protection.
30 March 2012: RWE npower and E.ON decide not to develop any more nuclear power plants in the UK, putting the UK nuclear renaissance
25 March 2012: A gas leak occurs at the Elgin–Franklin fields
1 March 2012: The IPCC appoints Benjamin K. Sovacool energy policy analyst, to its climate change mitigation Working Group.
29 February 2012: Oldbury Nuclear Power Station
22 February 2012: The 150 MW Ormonde Wind Farm Irish Sea becomes fully operational.
22 February 2012: The 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Mojave Desert , is awarded the concentrating solar power (CSP) Project of the Year Award by Solar Power Generation USA.
9 February 2012: The world's largest offshore wind farm , the 367 MW Walney Wind Farm Ed Davey .
8 February 2012: 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
7 February 2012: Wind power gigawatts worldwide, an increase of 41 gigawatts in 2011, led by China.
