Energy

Kenya to build $147mn utility scale solar power

Bloomberg Kenya is expanding its solar power, building two utility-scale projects that will supply green electricity to about 300,000 of the nation’s homes. The Radiant and Eldosol solar plants with a combined capacity of 80 megawatts will cost $147 million, the European Investment Bank said. The European trade bloc’s lender is co-funding the plants with Dutch bank Nederlandse FMO NV, ...

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UK to open $25b contest for offshore wind farms

Bloomberg The UK is set to open the first contest in a decade intended to draw as much as $25 billion of investment in offshore wind farms. The move in a competitive auction for leases where developers can plant large-scale turbines at sea will bring at least 7 gigawatts of new power generation capacity to the UK grid and speed ...

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Tellurian signs $7.5bn pact with Petronet for US LNG

Bloomberg Tellurian Inc. said it signed a $7.5 billion agreement for India’s Petronet LNG Ltd. to buy into its proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana, in what could potentially be one of the largest foreign investments in the US to ship shale gas abroad. Petronet will spend $2.5 billion for an 18% equity stake in the $28 billion Driftwood ...

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Exxon puts Australia ops back on block amid global sell off

Bloomberg Exxon Mobil Corp. is again trying to sell its oil and gas operations in southeast Australia as part of a move to shed assets and boost shareholder returns. The US supermajor “will be testing market interest” for global assets, including what it operates in Australia, the company said in an emailed statement. No buyers have been identified and no ...

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India plans to build mega solar park

Bloomberg India’s NTPC Ltd. plans to set up a 5 gigawatt solar park in the western state of Gujarat, which would be the biggest in the country, as the top electricity generator shifts towards cleaner energy. A site has been identified for the project, which is expected to cost as much as 250 billion rupees ($3.5 billion) and begin operations ...

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Zambia may double prices of electricity

Bloomberg Zambia, Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, may double power tariffs as the government seeks more costly imports to offset a shortfall from its drought-stricken hydropower dams. The southern African nation has an electricity deficit of more than 700 megawatts, about a quarter of total capacity, and wants to buy 300 megawatts from South Africa, Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa told reporters ...

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$11b green-energy initiative taking shape in South Africa

Bloomberg A plan to establish the world’s largest green-energy financing initiative is being threshed out in South Africa, which needs to reduce its environmental footprint and find innovative ways to fund debt-stricken state power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. The plan being formulated by Meridian Economics, a Cape Town-based think tank, is under consideration by the government. It envisions the ...

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Lebanon’s gas stations to shut to protest dollar crunch

Bloomberg Lebanon’s gas station owners will stage a nationwide strike on Wednesday to protest the government’s failure to provide enough dollars to pay suppliers. The businesses say local banks lack hard currency they need, forcing them to buy dollars at exchange houses above the fixed rate of 1,507.5 Lebanese pounds to the greenback. The Energy Ministry prices gasoline and diesel ...

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Saudis tell Asian buyers they’ll still get contracted oil supply

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco has told several major Asian buyers that it will supply customers with all contracted oil volumes in spite of the production cuts over the weekend, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The attack on the kingdom’s most important oil production facility halved Saudi output and is crimping the availability of lighter grades such as Arab ...

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Russia’s main gas route to Europe seen at risk

Bloomberg Russia may hesitate to strike a multiyear deal with the European Union and Ukraine on natural gas supplies after an EU court ruling on a key German pipeline. The judgment reduces the options Gazprom PJSC has to ship billions of dollars of gas to its biggest market without using Ukraine’s pipeline network. But Russia may see the logic in ...

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