Energy Update

PARIS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Disagreements over valuation and charges related to a Finnish reactor project are likely to delay French utility EDF's acquisition of Areva's nuclear reactor business until next year, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.

California’s almond industry used to provide a plethora of shells to co-fire in biomass power generating plants in the state’s Central and San Joaquin valleys.

BARCELONA, Dec 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish.

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Canadian oil and natural gas producer Encana Corp , responding to a sharp drop in oil prices, has cut its 2016 capital budget by more than a quarter to $1.5-$1.7 billion.