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* Russia seeks higher oil prices as economy suffers (Releads, adds detail, quotes)

* Proposal comes ahead of vote on restructuring plan (Updates with quotes from Rothschild, shareholder, adviser)

This is probably not the first place you’ve read about Georgetown, Texas, the town of 55,000 that will be getting the equivalent of 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2017. But few articles hit upon the two key reasons Georgetown was able to make this move when so many other cities with abundant renewable resources (e.g. Tucson

A "dark horse" is defined as a little-known entity that emerges to prominence in the face of competition — a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed. I borrow the term from a conversation last week, wherein India was referred to as the dark horse in the global race to go solar.

ABU DHABI, April 15 (Reuters) - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) and all affiliated firms remain on alert, state news agency KUNA said on Wednesday, three weeks after Saudi Arabia and Arab allies began military strikes against Houthi militias in Yemen.

For commercial and small utility-scale solar, the prepaid PPA is a great idea — in theory. By prepaying for expected generation over the contract term, the long term price that the offtaker pays for electricity can be much lower. Assuming the offtaker can find the cash to handle the large prepayment, these deals can increase IRR, lower an offtaker’

KIEV, April 15 (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to increase imports of natural gas to 25 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2015 from 19.5 bcm last year, Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted energy minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn as saying on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) on Wednesday denied a media report that said staff at one of its units were asked to take a pay cut due to the plunge in global oil prices.

AMSTERDAM, April 15 (Reuters) - Dutch gas production company NAM and national gas trading company GasTerra said on Wednesday they were studying how to compensate for a court ruling that halted production at part of the massive Groningen gas field because of safety concerns.

ABUJA, April 15 (Reuters) - Oil firms keen to know how Nigeria's president elect Muhammadu Buhari plans to tax them could be waiting a long time as he makes ending corruption and reforming the opaque national oil company his most urgent sector priorities.

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