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Major power and gas company E.ON splitting in two; focusing on renewables, spinning off conventional power generation

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will place a particular emphasis on expanding its wind business in Europe and in other selected target markets. E.ON’s financial flexibility is further enhanced by the divestment of its entire businesses in Spain and Portugal, which it has agreed to sell to Macquarie, an Australian investment firm, for an enterprise value of €2.5

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Nissan Unveils the LEAF Production EV

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The headlights are designed to split and redirect airflow away from the door mirrors, thus reducing wind noise and drag. Meanwhile, lithium-ion batteries are being produced in Zama, Japan, with additional capacity planned for the USA, the UK and Portugal, and other sites for investment are under study around the world.

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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The other is that the hydrogen provisions are technology-neutral, meaning that there is no distinction between hydrogen produced by electrolysis with electricity from, for example, a wind farm or a nuclear power plant. That, in addition to the PTC [production tax credit], is what has me most excited.” At the lowest emission rate—0.45

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

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75 + taxes. Marriyam, from Goa, Portugal was the Christian one and Rukaiya Begum, the Muslim one was from Turkey. Then there was the Finance Minister, Toda mal, the brains behind the Jaziya tax. The big plus is drastically reduced wind resistance. The wind gods from Pakistan were doing their best to slow us down.

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