Energy Update

UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (Reuters) - A South Sudanese warlord who abducted about 89 boys from their school has offered to let them return to finish exams as long as they are then given back to him to fight, United Nations global education envoy Gordon Brown said on Wednesday.

SEOUL, March 19 (Reuters) - South Korea's producer prices fell 3.6 percent year-on-year in February, showing the same rate of fall seen in revised figures for January, central bank data showed on Thursday, as oil prices continued to drag down prices. Manufactured goods led the drop as they fell 6.5 percent in February from a year earlier. Among the manufactured goods, coal and oil products plummeted by 35.4 percent on an annual basis in February, the Bank of Korea data showed.

BRASILIA, March 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an anti-corruption offensive on Wednesday to counter rising discontent over a kickback scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras that has implicated her allies and undermined her popularity.

Coming on the heels of Demand Energy’s announcement that it is installing 1 MW of energy storage capacity in a series of Glenwood residential apartment buildings in New York City, a report released today concludes that the distributed energy storage market will increase almost 10-fold over the next three years.