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...Repsol in 2019 was among the first oil and gas companies to set a net zero emissions target and has since begun building wind, solar and hydro plants in Spain, the US and Chile....
...In the absence of affordable electricity storage, the use of gas and hydro plants as back-up power sources highlights dependence on a diverse portfolio of energy sources....
...To shore up the federal budget, President Michel Temer’s government is privatising assets ranging from hydro-electricity companies to even the national mint....
...A combination of plentiful hydro energy and new solar installations reduced the average capacity factor of Calpine’s California fleet from 55 per cent in 2015 to 45 per cent last year....
...Manitoba Hydro of Canada will manage the state transmission company....
...The hydro plants are: Kainji Hydro Power (concessioned to Mainstream Energy Solutions), and Shiroro Hydro Power (concessioned to North-South Power for $111m, with an annual fee of $23m)....
...What Toshiba calls “social infrastructure” – nuclear generators, hydro power, so-called smart grids, elevators and railway rolling stock, among others – investors can term a reliable profit generator....
...Others include private equity executives Dick Boyce of TPG and Jesse Rogers, the co-founder of Golden Gate Capital, as well as Marc Andreessen, the software engineer, venture capitalist and co-founder of...
...“You buy Danish mortgage bonds if you want no credit risk and plenty of liquidity,” Boyce, who was a bond trader at Soros’ $28 billion Soros Fund Management LLC before becoming chief executive officer at...
...“The mortgage bonds have already traded back up since the Moody’s announcement, and this is in an environment where everything else in Europe has widened out,” says Mr Boyce....
...Gross margins on electricity generation by coal and gas looked to be close to the trough, the broker said, while the outlook for Scottish hydro generation should improve following two years of lower than...
...Constellation says it has the right to sell up to 12 coal, gas and hydro power plants to EDF for a maximum of $2bn, and is still deciding whether to exercise the option, which expires at the end of the year...
...Renewable energy, primarily biomass and hydro-electric power, already represents around one-third of total generation and ramping it up further while consumption continues to grow will be difficult....
...The fund will invest mainly in Europe and will focus on wind, small hydro, solar photovoltaic and biomass....
...The writer is chairman and chief executive of Tatum LLC...
...Nearly 60 per cent of the market capitalisation of the Oslo bourse is accounted for by the energy sector, with state-controlled heavyweights Statoil and Norsk Hydro accounting for most of the sector....
...Norwegian oil groups Statoil and Norsk Hydro also fell sharply. Statoil closed down 2.1 per cent at NKr140.75. Norsk Hydro dipped 2.3 per cent to NKr637....
...“Both Norsk Hydro and Statoil are benefiting from strong investment and aggressive growth over the next few years,” CSFB said....
...France’s Total lost 1.3 per cent to €211.90 and Norsk Hydro slipped 1.4 per cent to €644....
...Norsk Hydro fell 1.9 per cent to €683 after Lehman Brothers cut the Norwegian oil group’s price target to NKr690 from NKr720....
...Norsk Hydro climbed 1 per cent to NKr736.50....
...The bank also raised its price targets for Statoil and Norsk Hydro among a host of European integrated oil companies....
...Statoil and Hydro have greater commodity price exposure,” said Neil Perry, at Morgan Stanley....
...BG Group was 1.2 per cent lower at 532½p after Norway’s Norsk Hydro, often linked with a bid for the energy group, bought US group Spinnaker Exploration for $2.5bn instead....
...Finland’s Neste Oil tumbled 3.3 per cent to €23.80 while in Norway, Statoil shed 2.3 per cent to NKr149.50 and Norsk Hydro retreated 1.8 per cent to NKr646....
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