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There’s a war brewing over the future of rooftop solar, and Arizona is at ground zero. Pinnacle West Capital Corp., which owns the state’s largest utility, last week said it has formed a third-party group to support candidates for an elected state board that regulates their industry.

* World already overshooting on greenhouse gas emissions

(Adds more comment, detail on U.S. presidential election)

GENEVA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The World Food Programme is very
concerned about the threat of famine in South Sudan, where
people are fleeing from the conflict and leaving their crops to
rot in the field, WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said on
Friday.

* Two thirds of power plants swing into losses in Shanxi in
Sept

(Updating with detail throughout)

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump has won over the U.S. coal industry by
promising to revive the downtrodden sector and scrap regulations
if elected.

LAGOS, Nov 4 (Reuters) - A commander of a Nigerian militant
group has attacked the Trans Forcados oil pipeline in the Niger
Delta without authorisation, a local newspaper said on Friday,
quoting a statement from the group.

BEIJING, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China National Coal Group
(ChinaCoal) is in talks with utilities on setting 2017 contract
prices and hopes to sign more contracts for next year versus
2016, the company's spokesman said.

TOKYO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Forced into action by falling
customers due to market liberalization and a shrinking
population, Japan's utilities are ditching old long-term coal
and gas supply contracts in favour of more short-term,
opportunistic trading.

(Fri, 04 Nov 2016) Oil wells drilled horizontally through hydrocarbon-bearing formations are often among the most prolific oil wells in the United States. Although modern horizontal drilling achieved commercial success in the 1980s, drilling techniques have improved, and in recent years, horizontal drilling has become more common.

SINGAPORE, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical
Corp has planned maintenance at its 540,000
barrels-per-day (bpd) Mailiao refinery next March, September and
November, a company spokesman said on Friday.

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