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Between 1980 and 1985, a cooperation project between the Soviet Union and some Western European countries led to the construction of the so-called “Yamal” pipeline, the first that crossed the Iron Curtain and the one that marked the beginning of Western European dependence on Soviet gas.

Using the example of Hunslet Grange, a social housing estate in 1970s Leeds, this article examines how its tenants increasingly lived in conditions that became known and politicised under the label of fuel poverty and how this served as a manifestation of the shortcomings of British social housin

The relation between gender and energy within the domestic space is an extremely interesting subject from a historiographical point of view.

This paper presents the evolution of the regulation of the gas industry in France and Spain during the 19th century.

Indoor climate gained attention in Switzerland in the late 19th century as a means to preserve human health.

Developed in West Germany in the 1960s, the SIEMENS type SUR-100 zero-power reactor was designed both for educational purposes and as a demonstration object for an engineering discipline still in emergence.

This article historicizes the rise of the Texas wind industry using the 2010 construction of the Roscoe Wind Farm in West Texas as a case study.

This article explores a short-lived but major natural gas boom in the area of McKeesport, Pennsylvania.  The discovery and exploitation of natural gas resources often displays a boom and bust cycle characterized by a rush of investment and production followed by resource exhaustion and falling pr

At its birth in 1924 the French state endowed the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (CFP) with a quarter share of the Turkish (later Iraq) Petroleum Company. A joint venture between the big four American and British oil companies, IPC struck oil in Iraq three years later.