Turkey has declared a state of emergency in the wake of the failed coup, and President Erdogan has launched an extensive purge of state bodies that has seen over 70,000 employees sacked and investigated for possible connections to the group that plotted the coup.
French energy giant, EDF, will make its long-awaited final decision on whether to go ahead with the highly-publicised nuclear power station at Hinkley Point at a meeting of its board of directors on July 28.
A report from the energy analyst EnAppSys has indicated that the market share of coal-fired electricity generation fell sharply, to 0.89 TWh during May 2016, compared to 1.38 TWh produced by solar PV.