Bloomberg A landmark 40-year-old law that’s been key to the growth of renewable energy in the US is being effectively overhauled, threatening to curb demand for solar projects. Federal regulators imposed new limits on which energy projects fall under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, known as Purpa, which helped spur an entire generation of solar and wind farms across …

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc expects the UK can end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles in just a decade, as the nation attempts to eliminate emissions by the middle of the century. The ban can be brought forward to 2030 with “the right policy and incentives,” Sinead Lynch, the head of oil giant Shell’s operations in Britain said …

Bloomberg The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has set a more ambitious climate goal than California, aiming to be carbon neutral 15 years before the rest of the state. The utility’s board unanimously adopted a resolution to “work towards carbon neutrality by 2030” — a decade sooner than its previous target of 2040. Under state law, all of California’s power must …

Bloomberg China Three Gorges Corp is emerging as the leading bidder for Spanish solar park assets owned by X-Elio Energy SL, in what could become one of the few Chinese acquisitions in Europe this year, people familiar with the matter said. The state-owned firm is in advanced talks to acquire 13 photovoltaic power stations from X-Elio after edging out other …

Bloomberg Dangote Group’s fertiliser plant, now under construction in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos, will be ready to start production late this year, according to Saipem SpA, the builders. Owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, the facility located in the Lekki district of Nigeria’s commercial hub, has a name-plate capacity of 3 million tons a year of urea and …

Bloomberg Former Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen warned that the US economic recovery from the coronavirus shock could be slow and uneven and said the central bank may opt to cap yields on Treasury securities to help it along. “It is possible, though not certain,” that the Fed will implement yield-curve control, they wrote on the Brookings Institution …

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp.’s (BofA) profit slid 52% as it joined rivals in preparing for an onslaught of consumer defaults spurred by pandemic’s economic fallout. Profit at the consumer-banking unit plunged 98% as the coronavirus shuttered much of the US economy and caused tens of millions of Americans to lose their jobs. The company allocated $5.1 billion for loan …

Bloomberg Bank Indonesia lowered its key interest rate for a second straight month to bolster economic growth, and signalled further easing will depend on inflation and how the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic unfolds. The central bank cut its seven-day reverse repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 4%, the lowest since the current rate system was adopted in 2016, …

Bloomberg DNB ASA, Norway’s biggest bank, delivered second-quarter earnings that beat even the most optimistic estimates as impairments proved less dire than feared. The Oslo-based lender’s net income reached 4.77 billion kroner ($508 million) in the three months through June. Impairments fell 63% from the first quarter, DNB said. Thomas Eskildsen, an analyst at Handelsbanken, said trading and commission income …

Bloomberg The road to recovery for the US economy will be uneven, unclear and uncertain as the coronavirus retains its hold on business and Americans’ everyday activities, according to the heads of the nation’s biggest banks. In the wake of brighter data on employment, retail sales and housing over the last two months, most financial-institution executives curbed their enthusiasm about …