Bloomberg US solar jobs fell for a second straight year as companies delayed projects in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s import tariffs. The good news: Employment is set to bounce back in 2019. The sector lost about 8,000 jobs in 2018, a 3.2 percent drop, as uncertainty over the tariffs announced early that year slowed large-scale projects, according to a …

Bloomberg Venezuela’s oil minister made a surprise appearance at an energy event in India, as the embattled Opec producer seeks closer ties with major crude customers in the face of crippling US sanctions. Manuel Quevedo said on Monday his nation wants to sell more crude to India, and that US measures have resulted in a $20 billion loss to the …

Bloomberg Drax Group Plc has started capturing carbon dioxide at its Yorkshire power plant for the first time in a pilot project to develop the technology. The six-month bioenergy carbon capture and storage test aims to suck up a ton of carbon dioxide a day at its biomass plant, with technology that isolates the pollutant from flue gases released when …