Energy Update
CONAKRY, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Senegal authorities have
arrested a Guinean soldier linked to a 2009 massacre in Conakry
where at least 150 people were killed and dozens of women raped,
a Senegalese security source said on Tuesday.
BRUSSELS, Dec 20 (Reuters) - EU nations backed measures to
strengthen new on-road emissions tests on Tuesday to supplement
laboratory-based ones, whose flaws were laid bare by the
Volkswagen scandal.
OSLO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Norway's Conservative Prime
Minister Erna Solberg will reshuffle her cabinet on Tuesday,
replacing at least three ministers nine months before the next
general election, public broadcaster NRK reported, quoting
unnamed sources.
Statoil said Dec. 16 that it has been declared the provisional winner of the U.S. government’s wind lease sale of 79,350 acres offshore New York. Statoil will now have the opportunity to explore the potential development of an offshore wind farm to provide New York City and Long Island with a significant, long-term source of renewable electricity.
Deepwater Wind last week said that the 30-MW Block Island Wind Farm project has completed its commissioning and testing phases and began commercial operations, marking the startup of the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States.
The increasing uptake of renewable energy technology in East Africa has created additional opportunities for various energy storage solutions especially batteries, as the market looks to an era of low emissions and reliable clean energy supply for off-grid consumers.
OSLO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Crude tanker operator Frontline
expects strong demand for its vessels at the start of
2017 and could benefit from oil producers' pact to cut output if
it forces Asian buyers to go further afield for supplies, its
chief executive said.
LISBON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Portugal's largest shipping
company, Grupo ETE, is preparing to open up its capital to
outside investors and is studying the possibility of an initial
public offering as it seeks to speed up expansion in Latin
America, CEO Luis Nagy told Reuters.
The solar industry is large enough to seek U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) regulatory relief, irrespective of any debate over climate change. The President-elect is skeptical of anthropogenic climate change.
LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ruled on
Tuesday that a fracking permit awarded by a local council to
developer Third Energy was legal, after it was challenged by
environmental campaigners, opening the way to shale gas
extraction in the UK.
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