Tag: Renewable Energy Generation

China’s Spending on Green Energy Is Causing a Global Glut
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China’s Spending on Green Energy Is Causing a Global Glut

Listen to article(1 minute)China’s newest solar-energy manufacturers include a dairy farmer and a toy maker.The new entrants are examples of a green-energy spending binge in China that is fueling the country’s rapid build-out of renewable energy while also creating a glut of solar components that is rippling through the industry and stymying attempts to build such manufacturing elsewhere, particularly in Europe.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Copper Market Slump Threatens Shift to Wind Power, Electric Cars
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Copper Market Slump Threatens Shift to Wind Power, Electric Cars

A prolonged slide in copper prices is challenging the world’s shift to renewable energy sources.Mining firms will need to dig up gigantic amounts of new copper over the next several years to supply the transition to renewables. But demand is slumping right now from manufacturers and builders who use the metal in everything from electrical wire to roofing. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Copper Market Slump Threatens Shift to Wind Power, Electric Cars
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Copper Market Slump Threatens Shift to Wind Power, Electric Cars

A prolonged slide in copper prices is challenging the world’s shift to renewable energy sources.Mining firms will need to dig up gigantic amounts of new copper over the next several years to supply the transition to renewables. But demand is slumping right now from manufacturers and builders who use the metal in everything from electrical wire to roofing. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Enel Raises Guidance After Surge in Profit
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Enel Raises Guidance After Surge in Profit

Enel upgraded its guidance for the year after profit more than doubled in the first nine months.The Rome-based energy company on Tuesday reported a net profit of €4.25 billion ($4.56 billion), up from €1.76 billion in the first nine months of last year. On an adjusted basis, net profit—or net ordinary income—climbed 65% to €5.03 billion.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
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Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk

The latest Market Talks covering Energy and Utilities. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET.0337 GMT – CK Power’s earnings may turn around in 4Q on the easing impact from the El Niño weather phenomenon, Thanachart Securities analyst Nuttapop Prasitsuksant says in a research report. The El Niño-induced drought is subsiding, so electricity generation from the Thai company’s hydropower projects is recovering, the analyst says. Given that drought is usually at its worst in the first year of the El Niño cycle, the company’s hydropower output should continue to rise in 2024-2025, the analyst adds. Also, its interest expenses should decline next year, owing to debt repayments and lower average debt costs, says the brokerage. It raises its target price fo...
Phil Murphy’s New Jersey Wind Flop
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Phil Murphy’s New Jersey Wind Flop

Phil Murphy huffed and he puffed, and a giant wind boondoggle blew the New Jersey Governor down. That’s the story of another failed green-energy project, as the follies keep being exposed.The renewable energy firm Ørsted last week backed out of two megaprojects along the Jersey shore that it started planning in 2019. With his eye on support from the climate lobby for a White House run, Mr. Murphy courted the developments, which were meant to provide electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes. The company says cost overruns have made them impossible, and it wrote off $4 billion for the first nine months of this year.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Orsted Books $4 Bln Impairments, Walks Away From Two US Offshore Projects
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Orsted Books $4 Bln Impairments, Walks Away From Two US Offshore Projects

Updated Nov. 1, 2023 3:33 am ETOrsted booked a 28.4 billion Danish kroner ($4.02 billion) impairment charge in the third quarter related to its U.S. offshore wind portfolio and said it will stop development of two wind farm projects off the coast of New Jersey amid spiraling costs and supplier delays.The Danish renewable-energy company had previously warned of up to DKK16 billion of impairments after flagging increasing supply-chain risks at U.S. projects, while a lack of favorable progress on U.S. tax credits and higher interest rates were also sending project costs higher.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8