Energy Update
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
G reater support from the public, governments and investors is
needed to boost the work of entrepreneurs using business for
social good, said industry activists and organizers after a
Thomson Reuters Foundation poll highlighted these as key issues.
China General Nuclear Power Corp., the country’s biggest nuclear power operator, has been invited to make a second-round bid for Chevron Corp.’s Asian geothermal energy assets, which could fetch $3 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
ONITSHA, Nigeria, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Militants have blown
up a crude oil pipeline operated by Nigeria's state oil firm
NNPC in the Niger Delta, a group claiming responsibility for the
attack and a youth leader said on Monday.
MEXICO CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Hurricane Paine
strengthened off Mexico's Pacific coast on Monday, though the
storm is forecast to weaken substantially before reaching land
later this week, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Sept 19 (Reuters) - More wells passed safety inspections at
the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in Los Angeles,
Southern California Gas Co said on Monday, but the company has
more work to do before it can inject gas into the giant field
the utility shut last fall due to a massive methane leak that
was not plugged until February.
Last week at Solar Power International, major inverter makers GE and Huawei unveiled systems that each hopes will mean big savings in the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for solar PV power plants.
NEW YORK, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Gasoline prices in the
southeastern United States kept rising on Monday as Colonial
Pipeline Co continued to fix a more-than-week long disruption on
a key gasoline line that has led to complaints of long waits and
price gouging at the pump.
Solar is cheaper than ever, thanks to the falling cost and rising efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. But here’s something to consider: figuring out the real cost of solar energy is about more than just the price tag on the panels and their rated power output.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $30 million in funding from its SunShot Initiative to support research that will accelerate development of solar PV module materials that could lower the cost of electricity generated by solar power.
LIMA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Peru is in talks with BlackRock
Inc, the world's largest asset manager, about obtaining
infrastructure financing, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said
Monday after meeting with the company's chief executive officer
Larry Fink.
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