BLOOMBERG A year and a half ago, China’s CATL put on a flashy event to make an announcement significant enough that Zeng Yuqun, the founder and chairman of the world’s biggest battery maker, served as emcee. Zeng, who had just passed up Alibaba’s Jack Ma in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, revealed that CATL was working on battery packs that would …

BLOOMBERG Greece will put forward a plan to overhaul the European Union’s (EU) electricity grids in order to lay foundations for a massive rollout of renewable power. The country wants to boost so-called north-south corridors so that areas with high levels of wind power generation are better connected with those that produce solar electricity, according to a non-paper seen by …

BLOOMBERG  Amazon.com Inc is laying off an additional 9,000 employees, adding to cuts that were already the largest round of firings in the company’s history. CEO Andy Jassy announced the cuts internally, saying they would occur in the coming weeks and primarily affect Amazon Web Services, human resources, advertising and the Twitch livestreaming service groups. “Given the uncertain economy in …