Bloomberg Solar battery sales in Germany are poised to boom as prices for the facilities continue to drop and homeowners turn to generate their own electricity to shield against rising power prices, the BSW solar lobby said. Total solar battery installs in Germany exceeded 100,000 units this summer and at the current rate of growth may double by 2020, the ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s Solidarity labour union plans to escalate a strike at energy and chemicals company Sasol Ltd. from September 6 over the exclusion of white staff from an employee-shareholding plan, deputy General-Secretary Deon Reyneke said. Members of the union began protests including a so-called go-slow at the company on September 3, Reyneke said. The full strike later this week ...

Bloomberg China is exploring a merger between two of the nation’s three wireless carriers to speed up the development of 5G mobile services amid a race with the US over the technology, according to people familiar with the matter. The country’s top leaders are reviewing a proposal to combine China United Network Communications Group Co. and China Telecommunications Corp. but ...