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EBRD to provide $100mn emergency loan to Jordan’s electricity network operator

6% fall in energy demand not enough to meet climate challenges

A 6% fall in energy demand is not enough to combat climate change on a sustained basis, warns the IEA, although the crisis has given a glimpse of what needs to be done

China to build $3bn coal plant in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s Rio Energy, a unit of RioZim, is to build a 2,800-MW thermal power plant with China Gezhouba Group in northern Zimbabwe at a projected cost of $3bn.

Russia’s Rosatom delivers fuel material to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant

Jinko Solar/EDF make record low bid for UAE solar project

China’s Jinko Solar is part of a consortium that has made a record-breaking low bid for the Emirates Water and Electricity Company’s (EWEC) 1.5-GW Al Dhafra solar project.

HSBC pulls out of coal financing in Asia

HSBC has finally called a halt to its backing of coal projects, telling shareholders that it was withdrawing from coal in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.