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Developer Pursues Floating Solar Projects in US

Solar Power Inc., a renewable-energy developer backed by China’s LDK Solar Co., is joining with Aqua Clean Energy to develop floating solar projects in the U.S. and Mexico.

EU's Tusk: increasingly hard to keep unity on Russia sanctions

WARSAW, March 20 (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk said on Friday it was increasingly difficult to maintain a united European Union position on sanctions imposed on Russia over its involvement in the Ukraine crisis.

Tidal Lagoon’s Next Plant May Produce Power on Par with Nuclear

The U.K. company planning the world’s first tidal-lagoon power station said its next plant may generate electricity at almost half the price.

UPDATE 3-German taxpayers at risk of big nuclear exit bill -report

* Germany to exit nuclear power by 2022 (Updates with Economy Ministry letter in paras 11-13)

UPDATE 1-Dutch Gasunie to spend on foreign gas conversion

AMSTERDAM, March 20 (Reuters) - Dutch gas grid operator Gasunie is preparing a 200 million euro ($216 million) project to make foreign gas compatible with the national network after concerns over earthquakes forced officials to cap domestic output.

U.S unveils new rules to for fracking on federal lands

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Interior said on Friday it finalized new rules to govern drilling on federal land using a process known as fracking, including new measures to protect groundwater.

UPDATE 7-Oil jumps on weaker dollar; U.S. crude up more than 4 pct

* Coming Up: Baker Hughes U.S.

UPDATE 1-Obama calls on Iran to immediately release detained Americans

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday called on Iran's government to immediately release three detained Americans - Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian - and to help find Robert Levinson, an American who disappeared in Iran eight years ago, the White House said.

What now for junk-rated "dinosaur" Eskom? South Africa asks

JOHANNESBURG, March 20 (Reuters) - In the dying days of apartheid, the head of South Africa's power utility, the central pillar of the white-run economy, sat down with Nelson Mandela and asked him a simple question: when you take office, what are you going to do with Eskom?

Russia moots higher gas price for Kiev ahead of three-way talks

* Stockholm court ruling on Kiev's gas debt expected in late 2016

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