Not likely, according to a leading energy consulting firm.
His resignation follows an exodus of leading energy officials in recent weeks.
British Gas has become the second leading energy supplier to freeze its standard prices this winter.
Teri, India's leading energy research institute, launched its Lighting One Billion Lives initiative in 2007.
Until it closed the reactors, Germany was Europe's leading energy exporter.
The eventual outcome, however, is that Endesa is now owned by Enel, Italy's leading energy firm.
"I'm looking forward to working with ExxonMobil, the world's leading energy company," he said, his eyes locked to the script.
In the United States, the world's leading energy user, consumption dropped 2.8percentthethe largest decline since 1982.
Nobuo Tanaka, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, the leading energy adviser to industrialized countries, urged producers not to cut output.
Green energy accounted for more than half of net electricity generation capacity added around the world last year for the first time, leading energy experts have found.
