Energy

Bloomberg South Sudan’s main electricity provider will stop supplying power to the national grid after the government failed to allocate the foreign exchange it needs for operations. The Ezra Construction and Development Group supplies 33 megawatts to the Juba Electric Distribution, for which it is paid in foreign exchange. The government is contractually obliged to allocate Jedco hard currency as ...

Bloomberg Britain’s power generation industry is headed for its greenest year yet as more renewable capacity is added and coal plants are needed less often. The carbon intensity — a measure of the environmental impact of generating electricity — has dropped 60% in the UK in the six years to 2019 and is on track to reach another low this ...

Bloomberg Orsted, the world’s biggest developer of offshore wind parks, agreed to sell a stake in a farm off coast of Taiwan in a deal worth $2.7 billion. The agreement hands Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and Cathay PE, a Taiwanese private equity fund, 50% of Orsted’s 605 megawatt Greater Changhua 1 Offshore Wind Farm, Danish company said. ...

Bloomberg A disconnect between Russia’s climate policies and the sustainability ratings of some of its biggest companies highlights the challenges investors face in assessing environmental, social and governance performance. While ESG scores for companies like Novatek PJSC and Polyus PJSC rank on par or better than many of their international peers, their ambitious growth plans will contribute to a forecast ...

Bloomberg Orix Corp. agreed to buy Spain’s Elawan Energy, the Japanese financial conglomerate’s first deal to acquire a majority stake in an overseas renewable power company, people with knowledge of the matter said. Tokyo-based Orix is purchasing an 80% stake in Elawan from its management and Spanish industrial company Acek, said the people, who asked not to be identified before ...

Bloomberg India has been ordered to return over $1.2 billion to Cairn Energy Plc after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration lost arbitration proceedings in a tax dispute, its second defeat since September over such levies. An international arbitration tribunal ruled that India’s tax claim was not valid and asked the government to repay the funds, along with interest, to Cairn. ...

Bloomberg China’s pipeline network behemoth inked a $6.3 billion asset purchase in the latest step to bolster the nation’s energy security and break down market barriers. Kunlun shares surged on the news. Kunlun Energy will sell a 60% stake in a Beijing natural gas pipeline and a 75% stake in its Dalian LNG company for 40.9 billion yuan to the ...

Bloomberg Norway’s top court dismissed an attempt by climate activists to halt Arctic oil exploration by Western Europe’s biggest petroleum-producing nation. The Nordic government beat back a lawsuit by environmental groups in the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled on Tuesday the authorities had acted lawfully by awarding exploration licenses in the Barents Sea to companies including Equinor ASA, Aker BP ...

Bloomberg China is limiting power supplies in some provinces as cold weather and the country’s industrial recovery boost demand. Power supplies are being cut to some industrial and commercial customers in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, where demand has jumped by at least 18% over the previous year, Zhao Chenxi, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission said at ...

Bloomberg Sasol has agreed to sell its stake in a 175-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Mozambique to Azura Power for about $145 million as part of an accelerated disposal program to pay down debt. The sale of its 49% shareholding in the Central Termica de Ressano Garcia plant is subject to conditions including a pre-emption right by state-owned Electricidade de ...