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Investment banks aren’t interested, and neighborhood banks just don’t understand. So where is someone who has a great commercial solar project supposed to get funding?

Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary Shell Chemical Appalachia has started the main construction phase of its new petrochemicals complex in Potter Township in the US state of Pennsylvania.

(Thu, 09 Nov 2017) In August 2017, coal stockpiles at electric power plants were 144 million tons, the lowest monthly level since late 2014, according to EIA’s <em>Electric Power Monthly</em>. Coal stockpiles at U.S. coal-fired power plants typically follow a seasonal pattern of increasing during the spring and fall, when electricity demand is relatively low, and decreasing during the summer and winter, when electricity demand is relatively high

(Thu, 09 Nov 2017) The power plant data file (2_Plant_Y2016) now includes:<br />
• Identification of plant-level energy storage capabilities including the distinction of natural gas storage type as liquefied natural gas<br />
• Identification of the Local Distribution Company (LDC) connected to natural gas burning power plants<br />

US-based Air Products has signed an agreement with Yankuang Group, a China-based state-owned-enterprise, to jointly invest and develop $3.5bn coal-to-syngas production facility in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China.

Eland Oil & Gas has announced that, following the successful operation on OP7, the OML 40 joint-venture partnership has committed to the drilling of the Opuama-9 and Opuama-10 infill wells on Opuama field.

Tongwei Co. plans to spend 12 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion) to build two solar-cell factories that would make the Chinese firm the world’s biggest manufacturer of products that generate electricity from the sun.

Control of the governor’s seat in New Jersey is moving to a Democrat — a shift that could be a big win for wind power in the state’s waters.

Oil superpowers are butting heads. Saudi has escalated a bitter feud by accusing Iran of an "act of war" following a rebel missile attack on Riyadh. The stakes are high for both protagonists but their belligerence has its limitations.

It has been a little more than nine months since President Donald Trump took office, and although most hard commodity prices are lower than the day he was sworn in, there are signs of life. Joe Innace has more.

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