Bloomberg Wind and solar power don’t pose a significant threat to the reliability of the US power grid, Energy Department staff members said in a draft report, contradicting statements by their leader Rick Perry. “The power system is more reliable today due to better planning, market discipline, and better operating rules and standards,” according to a July draft of the ...

Bloomberg Envision Energy, one of world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers, has bigger ambitions. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang laid out a vision for a global “ecosystem” of energy in which solar and wind farms, power plants, utilities, big electricity customers and all of the application and software developers that support them are connected to each other on a single, digital ...

Bloomberg The US is seeking to recover $144 million in assets, including proceeds from a luxury condominium on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row in New York, which prosecutors claim were spoils from bribes paid for Nigerian oil contracts. The Justice Department, in a lawsuit filed in Houston, said two Nigerian businessmen made corrupt payments to a Nigerian official who oversaw the country’s ...