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JOHANNESBURG, March 26 (Reuters) - South Africa's Eskom said striking workers had destroyed property at the Medupi power plant it is building and the state-owned utility closed the site on Thursday to assess the damage.

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Generating electricity from biomass, such as urban waste and sustainably sourced forest and crop residues, is one strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions because it is carbon-neutral: it produces as much carbon as the plants suck out of the atmosphere.

THE HAGUE, March 26 (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog will investigate allegations of chlorine gas attacks in Syrian villages that killed six and wounded dozens this month, a source told Reuters on Thursday.

GRAPHIC: R&D budgets: http://link.reuters.com/huk44w By Khettiya Jittapong BANGKOK, March 26 (Reuters) - Thailand's two biggest industrial groups are raising their R&D spending to develop higher-end products, leading a growing troop of Thai companies under pressure to quickly evolve their low-value and increasingly uncompetitive business models.

Looming signs of new trouble are brewing in the solar panel sector, with shares of Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) taking a bath after the company reported widening losses and slowing revenue growth. The 15 percent sell-off saw Yingli’s shares re-approach an all-time low from just 2 and a half years ago, as the company joined a small but growing cl

(Thu, 26 Mar 2015) According to EIA monthly supply data through December 2014, which EIA released in late February, U.S. exports of fuel ethanol in 2014 reached their second-highest level at a total of 826 million gallons. This level was second only to the 1.2 billion gallons exported during 2011 and 33% more than exports of fuel ethanol in 2013. Similarly, U.S.

(Thu, 26 Mar 2015) Energy flow diagrams with data for 2014 for total energy, petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity. The flows show that domestic production of fossil fuels was 69.0 quadrillion Btu, accounting for 63 percent of total U.S. energy supply.

DUBAI, March 26 (Reuters) - Warplanes launched an attack on the airport of the Yemeni capital Sanaa early on Thursday, residents and an official said.

March 25 (Reuters) - General Electric Co increased planned job cuts in its Lufkin oilfield equipment unit to 575, as it grapples with pressure on the unit from the drop in oil prices, Bloomberg reported. (http://bloom.bg/1Ozj9lF)

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