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Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.
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Vattenfall communal heating network taps into German cities' growth
BERLIN Swedish utility Vattenfall [VATN.UL] expects strong growth in its environmentally-friendly communal heating network in Berlin and Hamburg as urban areas grow, a top executive said, helping Germany's efforts to cut emissions from power generation.
Germany's long goodbye to coal despite Merkel's green push
(This version of the August 2 story corrects name in paragraph 8 to Hans-Josef Fell)
Wind power's big bet: turbines taller than skyscrapers
COPENHAGEN/FRANKFURT Wind farm operators are betting on a new generation of colossal turbines, which will dwarf many skyscrapers, as they seek to remain profitable after European countries phase out subsidies that have defined the green industry since the 1990s.
Hapag-Lloyd says UASC integration on track, Qatar row no hindrance
HAMBURG Hapag-Lloyd's integration of Arab peer UASC is on track and has so far not been affected by Qatar's rift with its neighbors, the CEO of the German shipping company told Reuters.
Here comes the sun: investors increasingly hot on solar projects in S.E. Asia
SINGAPORE Investors are increasingly excited about the prospects for much faster growth in the solar power industry in Southeast Asia, which has until now been a backwater for renewable energy.
Here comes the sun: investors increasingly hot on solar projects in S.E. Asia
SINGAPORE Investors are increasingly excited about the prospects for much faster growth in the solar power industry in Southeast Asia, which has until now been a backwater for renewable energy.
Through Singapore's CLTX, German bourse seeks to tap Asia's commodities
SINGAPORE Singapore's Cleartrade Exchange expects the overall market size of its core products of iron ore, shipping, and fuel oil to grow strongly to $200 million by 2020, and it aims to take a growing slice of that trading, its chief executive told Reuters.
World investment in green power down, money went further in 2016 -report
FRANKFURT Record levels of renewable energy capacity were added across the world in 2016 but the falling costs of green power equipment led to a 23 percent decline in money spent on investments, UN-backed research showed on Thursday.
Gazprom Germania to cut jobs in restructuring move
FRANKFURT/MOSCOW Gazprom Germania, the Berlin-based subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom, will reduce its staff in Germany as it restructures operations, Gazprom officials said on Wednesday.
EU stalls Russian gas pipeline, but probably won't stop it
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT Russia has the European Union in a bind.
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