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GENEVA, July 19 (Reuters) - Dozens of people have fallen ill
with suspected cholera in South Sudan's capital of Juba, while a
U.N. food warehouse was looted and destroyed, incurring $20
million of damage, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

DETROIT, July 19 (Reuters) - Electric vehicle maker Tesla
Motors Inc has changed its internet address from
teslamotors.com to tesla.com, hinting at a possible company name
change as part of CEO Elon Musk's latest and still undisclosed
"master plan."

* Coming up: API report on U.S. crude stockpiles (2030 GMT)

(Recasts; adds latest market moves, Brent premium to WTI and
Iranian oil production growth)

Energy storage would gain access to the same tax incentives that helped make renewable energy the biggest new source of electricity in the U.S. last year under a bill introduced in the Senate.

Iran is planning its first tender for utility-scale renewable energy projects by year end as it begins a green power build out that could draw $12 billion of investment by the time it’s complete.

The first wind turbines at a major renewable energy project in South Australia have been activated. The Hornsdale wind farm is being developed by French renewable energy producer Neoen and built by Siemens Australia.

LAGOS, July 19 (Reuters) - Nigeria's economy, the biggest in
Africa, is likely to contract by 1.8 percent this year, the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday, as the
country grapples with the impact of low oil prices.

MANILA, July 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines has turned down
a Chinese proposal to start bilateral talks on their South China
Sea dispute, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, because of
Beijing's pre-condition of not discussing a court ruling that
nullified most of its claims.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands/GHENT, Belgium, July 19 (Reuters) - A
scheme to collect millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases and
bury them under the North Sea off the coast of Rotterdam is
Europe's best hope of showing it can make carbon capture and
storage (CCS) technology work.

BENGHAZI, Libya, July 19 (Reuters) - A protest over wages
that has shut the eastern Libyan oil terminal of Hariga has
forced the operator of the Sarir oil field to suspend
production of 100,000 barrels per day, an oil company spokesman
said on Tuesday.

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