Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s Rio Energy Ltd, a unit of RioZim Ltd, will build a 2,100 megawatt thermal power plant with China Gezhouba Group Corp (CGGC) in northern Zimbabwe at a projected cost of $3 billion, Rio Energy said. “CGGC will develop the project and assist with the fund raising,” Caleb Dengu, chairman of Rio Energy Ltd said last week. The power ...

Bloomberg You can add coal to the list of global commodities struggling during the pandemic. Prices haven’t yet turned negative (like oil), but coronavirus is accelerating the demise of the dirtiest fossil fuel. Social distancing measures mean energy demand has fallen across the board. Some of the smallest declines, however, are in the electricity sector. That should have been good ...

Bloomberg South Korea has run out of oil storage space that can be leased to third-party companies, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as a global glut spurs a scramble for places to store crude. State-run Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) currently rents out about 30 million barrels of onshore tank space to third parties including international traders ...