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Oil crashes 31% in worst loss since 1991 in price war

Bloomberg Oil crashed more than 30% after the breakup of the Opec+ alliance triggered an all-out price war, with both Russia and Saudi Arabia poised to flood the market with cheap oil. The former allies pledged swift retribution for the collapse of the cartel’s meeting last week, with the Gulf kingdom slashing its official crude prices and threatening record production, …

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Eskom set for some respite thanks to crude plunge

Bloomberg The plunge in international oil prices has a potential upside for South Africa’s debt-stricken state power utility. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd can’t generate enough power from its coal-fired power stations to meet demand, and burnt through diesel worth 6.5 billion rand ($407 million) at its open-cycle gas turbines in its last financial year to try and avert or limit …

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Iberdrola buys stake in $2.7bn wind farm

Bloomberg Iberdrola SA agreed to buy the 30% stake it didn’t already own in a wind farm project off the coast of France that will cost an estimated 2.4 billion euros ($2.73 billion) to build as the Spanish utility pursues its fast expansion in the clean power market. Iberdrola, which already had 70% in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc project, is …

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