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Upgrade Will Nearly Triple Capacity of Germany’s Schwerin Battery Park

German utility WEMAG and energy storage software provider Younicos have begun construction on a project that will nearly triple the storage capacity of the existing Schwerin battery park.

COLUMN-Britain's motorists should brace for higher petrol prices: Kemp

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - British motorists should brace
themselves for more expensive petrol and diesel as the price of
fuel is hit by a double shock from rising oil prices and a
weakening exchange rate.

Gunmen kidnap Romanian engineer in Niger Delta

ONITSHA, Nigeria, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped a
Romanian engineer in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, police
said on Tuesday.

REUTERS SUMMIT-BB Energy aims for aggressive growth, says Moroccan debt manageable

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Mid-sized oil trader BB Energy is
looking to expand aggressively in Africa and the former Soviet
Union via new deals and asset purchases, its chief executive
told Reuters.

UPDATE 1-GE to buy wind turbine rotor blades maker for $1.65 bln

Oct 11 (Reuters) - General Electric Co said it would
buy LM Wind Power, a maker of rotor blades used in wind
turbines, from private equity firm Doughty Hanson for $1.65
billion, as it looks to boost output in its renewable energy
business.

American steel cameos in US presidential candidate debate

After Sunday night’s sad and nasty US presidential debate it’s hard to focus on the relatively small exchange the candidates had about American steel.

REUTERS SUMMIT-Gunvor owner cuts stake as staff buy into growth strategy

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The co-founder of Gunvor,
Torbjorn Tornqvist, is diluting his stake in the company to
allow employees to own more than a third of the fast-growing
trading house by year-end to help to retain and recruit talent
as it pursues its global expansion strategy.

Turkish PM slams Clinton for comments on arming Syrian Kurdish forces

ANKARA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A proposal by Hillary Clinton,
the Democratic nominee in the U.S. presidential election, to arm
Kurds fighting Islamic State in Syria is "unethical" and not
befitting a NATO ally, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim
said on Tuesday.

IEA warns of risk to oil demand from record global debt

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Record global debt levels pose a clear
risk to oil demand, the International Energy Agency said on
Tuesday, citing figures from the International Monetary Fund
last week that showed the world is awash with a record $152
trillion in debt.

Germany's 2017 green power surcharge to rise 8 pct - sources

FRANKFURT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A surcharge levied on German
consumers to support renewable power will most likely rise by
around 8 percent next year, despite government efforts to scale
back support for green power, sources in the power transmission
sector said on Tuesday.

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