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First Minister John Swinney was shown a hydrogen gas cooker during the visit (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Swinney: Hydrogen-powered home is ‘exciting’ development in climate change fight

John Swinney says the opening of the first hydrogen-powered homes at a demonstration facility in Fife is an “exciting project” which can help...

FILE - People walk amid an oil spill in the Niger Delta in village of Ogboinbiri, Nigeria, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
BusinessEconomyNewsOilPolitics

Nigeria moves to restart oil production in vulnerable region after Shell sells much of its business

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian government is in talks with local communities to restart oil production in a region that’s previously suffered...

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a Tesla store in Porsgrunn, Norway, December 24, 2021. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty/File Photo
BusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)FinanceNewsPolitics

Tesla loses market share in Sweden, Norway as Musk looms large

OSLO (Reuters) – Tesla lost market share in Sweden and Norway in January, car registration data showed on Monday as the U.S. electric...

Norway aims for all new cars sold to be 'zero emission' starting in 2025, which is 10 years ahead of the goal set by the European Union (AFP)
Electric Vehicles (EVs)News

Norway nears 100% goal of all-electric cars

Almost 96 per cent of new cars registered in Norway in January were electric, close to the country's goal of selling only zero-emission...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Ecopetrol is pictured at its headquarters in Bogota, Colombia July 11, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo
BusinessNewsOil

Colombia’s Ecopetrol renews joint venture with Occidental Petroleum in Permian basin

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian energy company Ecopetrol said on Monday it has reached an agreement to renew its oil joint venture with Occidental...

FILE PHOTO: A view of the electric vehicle (EV) factory of China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group in Tianjin, China October 20, 2021. Picture taken October 20, 2021. REUTERS/Yilei Sun/File photo
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China Evergrande’s EV unit says struggling to attract investors amid liquidity crisis

(Reuters) – China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle said on Monday it is struggling to attract strategic investors amid a severe liquidity crisis, which...

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign stop at manufacturer FALK Production in Walker, Michigan, U.S. September 27, 2024.  REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
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US metal buyers likely to turn to Mideast, Chile as tariffs bite

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) -U.S. companies will look to the Middle East and India for more aluminium and to Chile and Peru...

FILE PHOTO: People walk past an installation depicting barrel of oil with the logo of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
BusinessNewsOilPoliticsTrade

OPEC+ likely to stick to oil output hike plan, sources say

By Maha El Dahan, Ahmad Ghaddar and Olesya Astakhova LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC+ agreed to stick to its policy of gradually raising oil output...

This aerial view on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, shows the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines, which has never produced a single watt of energy. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
ElectricityNewsNuclear Power

Southeast Asia looks to nuclear power to supercharge its energy transition

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asia’s only nuclear power plant, completed four decades ago in Bataan, about 40 miles from the Philippine capital...

FILE - A boat passes by July 2, 2024, off Sea Girt, N.J., where a power cable from the Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm project is projected to come ashore. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)
ElectricityNewsOffshore WindPoliticsWind

In win for Trump, oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm

In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away...

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