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...Jamie Hannah, deputy head of investments at VanEck, which holds more than 5mn shares and voted in favour of the takeover, said Origin now needed to set “more aggressive targets” for renewable power generation...
...US start-ups QuantumScape and Solid Power, partners of Volkswagen and BMW, respectively, have similar commercialisation target dates for their own technologies....
...power plants from its retail business....
...Last month, Cannon-Brookes successfully blocked AGL’s plan to spin off its coal generation business and run its coal plants into the 2040s, prompting the chief executive and chair to resign....
...grid, and its reliable cash flow to invest in renewable generation and shut its coal plants early.Some analysts predict Canadian investment group Brookfield will join Cannon-Brookes in another bid to take...
...Frank Calabria, the company’s chief executive, said the economics of coal-fired power stations were “being put under increasing, unsustainable pressure by cleaner and lower cost generation, including solar...
...In a letter to AGL’s board, Brookfield and Cannon-Brookes argued that the capital required to replace AGL’s coal plants with renewable generation was “beyond what AGL can achieve in the public markets”....
...Around this time, the power struggle between Nissan and Renault had burst into the open....
...With the fresh capital, FTX is also looking to make acquisitions to target retail investors and obtain licences in other jurisdictions....
...We’ll be watching closely to see whether this generation of Spacs does better than its predecessors. 3....
...The “fifth generation” of cellular wireless was launched to great fanfare last year, initially in the US and South Korea, with operators in markets including the UK and Germany quickly following suit....
...Just yesterday morning, Hipgnosis Songs Fund — a speciality song royalty vehicle listed in London — closed a $323m deal to purchase 33,000 songs from Kobalt Capital Ltd....
...The depth and pace of economic progress established the political legitimacy of the PAP for generations. The party has never been out of power....
...But within Japan, there have been changes to capital structures when a subsidiary was doing better than its parent....
...The high cost of OLED panels is due to the heavy capital investment required....
...The jet, he said, is seen as “a long-term, capital-intensive, risky project that doesn’t necessarily immediately make economic sense”....
...generation in China....
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...PMICs [power management chips] supporting recently launched trendsetting smartphone models”....
...Abducted from their workplace in the heart of central Seoul, the South Korean capital, they had been taken to an abandoned warehouse, where they were beaten with steel pipes and stun batons....
...US companies Stoneway Energy and General Electric have won tenders to add more than 845 megawatts of thermal power generation capacity to the country’s deficient energy network in the next two years....
...NRG, the second-largest US power producer, has about a quarter of its generation capacity in Texas and has been reshaping its business so it relies less on squeezed wholesale power prices....
...“There’s a demonstrable preference for print among millennials, the generation that grew up with the Harry Potter books,” he says....
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