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India, the largest importer of Chinese solar equipment, proposed a 70 percent safeguard duty on cells and modules shipped from China and Malaysia, citing “threat of serious injury” to the domestic industry.

Citing changes in the energy market, utility regulators in Maine have delayed a decision for a power contract that would allow development to move forward on a 12-MW floating wind farm in Maine waters.

(Wed, 10 Jan 2018) Once final data are in, EIA expects about 25 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to have been added to the power grid during 2017, nearly half of which use renewable technologies, especially wind and solar. Another 3.5 GW of small-scale solar net capacity additions are estimated to have come online in 2017.

The government of Victoria, Australia, recently completed an agreement that supports the development of a wind plus storage facility for a crop farm in Western Victoria.

Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry.

In an order issued late yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission determined that Secretary Rick Perry’s Sep. 29 notice of proposed rulemaking on grid resilience does not meet the statutory requirements of the Federal Power Act.

Eni has sold the licence and basic engineering project to Sinopec for the construction of a refining facility based on the former’s Eni Slurry Technology (EST).

Enterprise Products Partners, a Houston-based natural gas and crude oil pipeline company, has revealed its plans to expand its butane isomerization plant at its complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas.

(Tue, 09 Jan 2018) Nearly all of the utility-scale power plants in the United States that were retired from 2008 through 2017 were fueled by fossil fuels. Of the total retired capacity, coal power plants and natural gas steam turbines accounted for the highest percentages, 47% and 26%, respectively.

Lucid Energy and its financial sponsor EnCap Flatrock Midstream have signed an agreement to sell Lucid Energy Group II, which has a portfolio of natural gas processing properties in the Delaware sub-basin of New Mexico, for $1.6bn.

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