Bloomberg China’s utility giant is planning to upgrade its massive electricity grid over the next few years to allow it to move away from coal generation and reach peak carbon emissions as soon as possible. State Grid Corp of China will build new ultra-high voltage transmission lines, speed up construction of pumped hydro storage plants, and accelerate the development of …

Bloomberg India’s state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp will offload its holding in its unit Numaligarh Refinery Ltd for 98.78 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) as part of its own privatisation process. The second-biggest state refiner will sell its 61.65% holding in Numaligarh Refinery to a consortium of state-run firms Oil India Ltd and Engineers India Ltd and may also include the provincial …

Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank (RBNZ) signalled it is in no rush to remove monetary stimulus, saying inflation will slow next year and the economic outlook remains highly uncertain amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “Prolonged monetary stimulus” remains necessary and “considerable time and patience” will be required to meet its inflation and employment targets, the Reserve Bank said in a statement …