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This photo shows power lines in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Vietnam will let electricity-guzzling factories buy electricity from wind and solar power producers, helping big companies like Samsung Electronics meet their climate targets and relieving pressure on the country's overstrained grid. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
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Vietnam allows big companies to buy clean energy to hit climate targets

Factory owners such as Samsung look forward to using Vietnam DPPAs to circumvent country's strained grid and harness green energy instead.

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X looks on during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024.  REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo
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Musk says any Trump move against EV support would hurt competitors more than Tesla

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Donald Trump's potential removal of support for EVs would hurt other automakers more than Tesla

FILE PHOTO: A railway worker drives a train engine while loading railcars in San Diego, California, U.S., November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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Higher pricing easing hit from low coal demand for US rail firms

Slowing coal demand, driven by global decarbonization efforts, remains a headwind for the US rail industry.

FILE PHOTO: Drilling rigs operate in the Permian Basin oil and natural gas production area in Lea County, New Mexico, U.S., February 10, 2019. Picture taken February 10, 2019.    REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo
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US oilfield firms slash prices as mega-mergers shrink customer base

A wave of mega-mergers among oil producers is forcing the US service companies to slash their prices, merge, or risk bankruptcy

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GE Vernova says manufacturing issue led to Nantucket turbine blade failure

Power services firm GE Vernova said Wednesday a manufacturing issue led to a turbine blade failure at its Vineyard Wind offshore project

FILE PHOTO: Logo of Anglo American is seen on a jacket of an employee of the Los Bronces copper mine, in the outskirts of Santiago, Chile March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido/File Photo
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Anglo American to face investors with wary eye on BHP’s potential return

Anglo American investors will keenly scrutinize CEO Duncan Wanblad's update on Thursday, just months after BHP takeover bid

FILE PHOTO: Miniatures of windmill, solar panel and electric pole are seen in front of NextEra Energy logo in this illustration taken January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Utility NextEra reports Q2 profit miss as segment sales slide

NextEra Energy missed profit estimates for the second quarter, hurt by higher interest rates and expenses in its renewables segment

ScottishPower also builds and operates wind farms in the UK (Tom Leese/PA)
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ScottishPower earnings hit after energy crisis allowance payment drops off

ScottishPower said its earnings fell 11% in the first half of the year to just over £1 billion, after an energy crisis allowance...

FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Cybertruck is parked on a local Tesla dealer in Paramus, New Jersey, U.S., July 23, 2024.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
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Tesla’s bleak margins sour investors as Musk hypes everything but cars

Tesla shares sank more than 11% on Wednesday CEO Elon Musk hyped the company's investment plans for AI and self-driving technologies

FILE PHOTO: A full-size mock-up of an electrically powered Lilium Jet air taxi is seen in a presentation bay inside a hangar at the German company’s headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen airport outside Munich, Germany, December 2, 2022. REUTERS/Tim Hepher/File Photo
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Lilium to begin studying US air-taxi assembly sites this year

German eVTOL firm hopes to open assembly plant in United States by the end of the decade as it pursues regional air transport...

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