Energy

Bloomberg Generators that provide capacity to the largest US power grid are going to get paid a lot more for guaranteeing electricity when the market needs it.Suppliers to PJM Intercon nection LLC — which serves more than 65 million people from Chicago to Washington — will receive $140 a megawatt-day for the year starting in June 2021, up 83% from ...

Bloomberg The Chinese government’s moves to ramp up renewable energy consumption have sparked optimism over the future of China Longyuan Power Group Corp, the country’s biggest wind power producer. Around half of the 29 analysts covering Longyuan have raised their price targets for its Hong Kong-listed stock over the past month, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Following a 29 ...

Bloomberg Two of North America’s biggest pipeline companies and the top US natural gas exporter are all absorbing subsidiaries in moves aimed at curbing future tax obligations following a federal overhaul. Williams Cos. said it will buy the remaining stake in Williams Partners in a $10.5 billion all-stock deal. Cheniere Energy Inc. is buying up the partnership that holds units ...

Bloomberg Just weeks after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission launched a sweeping review of its natural gas pipeline policy, its members are again split on the extent to which they should take climate change into account. In the latest clash, the commission’s Republican members voted to dismiss an environmental group’s challenge to Dominion Energy Inc.’s New Market gas pipeline in ...

Bloomberg Mitsui & Co. Ltd. is buying a 50 percent stake in wind farm developer Yushan Energy Co., giving the Japanese trading house a stake in an offshore power project in Taiwan. Yushan is a unit of Enterprize Energy, which owns a 40 percent net interest in the Hai Long Offshore Wind development in the Taiwan Strait, according to an ...

Bloomberg Repsol SA will no longer seek growth for its oil and gas business in preparation for the global transition to cleaner energy, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Spanish energy company is the first of its peers to make such a move. It illustrates how the industry’s strategic decisions are starting to be influenced by emissions ...

Bloomberg Wildfire season in Alberta began with a blaze that cut power to a key pipeline in the oil sands, causing heavy crude prices to surge. Inter Pipeline Ltd. is in the process of restoring service to parts of its Polaris Pipeline system after power was cut to the line’s Lamont Station, the company said. The line, which carried 194,000 ...

Bloomberg Ivory Coast is close to completing a deal with the local unit of France’s Eranove SA for the construction of a thermal-power plant that could expand the country’s generation capacity by almost a fifth, according to two people familiar with the matter. The 300 billion CFA franc ($530 million) gas-fired facility will be owned by Cie Ivoirienne de Production ...

Bloomberg The gas market is being flipped upside down. Australia, soon to become the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, is now turning to the largest buyer Japan as it seeks to import the fuel to ease a domestic supply crunch. In a scenario played out previously by LNG shippers including Indonesia and Malaysia, Australia is seeking to import ...

Bloomberg Tata Power Co., one of India’s largest private power utilities, is planning to invest as much as $5 billion to ramp up its renewable capacity fourfold, according to its top executive. The 103-year-old power utility plans to increase its clean-energy capacity to 12,000 megawatts by 2028, Chief Executive Officer Praveer Sinha said. That would require an investment of as ...