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The UK government’s hostility towards renewable energy subsidies continues to bite. Following a policy announcement last December that became effective in April, the industry was left facing a 60 percent cut to feed-in tariffs for solar, wind, hydro and anaerobic digestion.

* Sharp oil sell-off likely if Britain votes to leave EU
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Siemens AG, Europe’s biggest engineering company, will pay about $1 billion of cash to Spain’s Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA as part of a deal to combine the companies’ wind businesses, according to people familiar with the matter.

During Crane’s 12-year run as CEO, he tried to transform NRG—then America’s fourth-largest carbon emitter—into a firm focused on wind, solar and nuclear power.

MOSCOW, June 17 (Reuters) - Russia's Russneft is considering
an initial pubic offering to sell up to 10 percent of the
mid-sized oil producer, Interfax news agency reported on Friday
citing company boss Mikhail Gutseriyev.

* Sinopec's Shanghai-based refinery to shut 50 pct of
capacity

BARCELONA, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only a
tiny fraction of climate change funding is going into
small-scale solar, biogas and other off-grid systems that may be
the best way to get power to the world's poorest, researchers
say.

MADRID/FRANKFURT, June 17 (Reuters) - Germany's Siemens
and Spain's Gamesa announced plans to create
the world's biggest builder of windfarms on Friday, seeking to
combine their respective strengths in offshore wind power and
developing markets.

* National Grid says managing conflicts, shares fall

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MADRID, June 17 (Reuters) - Chinese energy conglomerate
Sinopec has served an arbitration notice to Spain's
Repsol demanding around $5.5 billion in compensation
over a 2012 joint venture, Repsol said on Friday.

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