Bloomberg Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the US installed more solar energy than any other source of electricity in the first quarter. Developers installed 2.5 gigawatts of solar in the first quarter, up 13 percent from a year earlier, according to a report on Tuesday from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research. That accounted ...

Bloomberg Sempra Energy shares had their biggest ever intraday gain as Elliott Management Corp. and Bluescape Resources called for a sweeping overhaul, including selling the company’s Mexican and South American utilities and spinning off its US liquefied natural gas business. The two activist funds together hold a 4.9 percent interest in Sempra — whose assets include San Diego Gas & ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s vision of a single energy market will move a step closer on Tuesday with the start of a joint market for electricity delivered on the same day. The project, which requires close cooperation between rival exchanges and grid operators, will link 14 national markets from Latvia to Germany and Portugal. Most other European countries are scheduled ...