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Demand trends, prices, and policies drive recent electric generation capacity additions

(Fri, 18 Mar 2016) The combination of slower electricity demand growth, low natural gas prices, and policies that encourage renewables-sourced electricity generation is changing the type and the amount of generating capacity added each year.

2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey: Energy Usage Summary

(Fri, 18 Mar 2016) EIA has released summary tables providing energy consumption estimates from the 2012 CBECS. The data show that despite a 14% increase in total buildings and a 22% increase in total floorspace since 2003, energy use in the estimated 5.6 million U.S. commercial buildings was up just 7% during the same period.

UPDATE 1-U.S. oil hits 2016-high on hopes for output freeze

TOKYO, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S.

Japan's first solar trusts set to list on new infrastructure market

TOKYO, March 18 (Reuters) - Four solar power plant operators are poised to sell the first shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's nascent infrastructure market, opening an avenue of funding for the renewable energy industry and bringing green assets to individual investors.

U.S. oil falls after flirting with 2016-high

TOKYO, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S.

Energy Market Authority of Singapore grants $27m to promote energy innovation

The Energy Market Authority of Singapore (EMA) has awarded $27m in research grants to 13 industry-partnered projects in the areas of Gas Technology and Smart Grids.

UPDATE 2-Libya's U.N.-backed government to move to Tripoli within days - PM

TRIPOLI, March 17 (Reuters) - Libya's U.N.-backed unity government will move to Tripoli from Tunis "within a few days", its prime minister said in a television interview broadcast on Thursday.

UPDATE 3-TransCanada to buy Columbia Pipeline Group for $10.2 bln

* Offer at 8.5 pct premium to Columbia Pipeline's Thursday close

UPDATE 1-Iraq's Sadr spurns calls to drop sit-in over "bastion of corruption"

BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Influential Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr rejected calls to cancel a planned sit-in on Friday at the gates of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which he called "a bastion of support for corruption".

RPT-UPDATE 2-Rio, shifting focus, replaces veteran Walsh with copper boss

SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has named its copper and coal division head, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, as its chief executive, replacing veteran Sam Walsh and marking a shift for the Anglo-Australian mining major that has long focused on iron ore.

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