Cocoa Prices Rally As Jefferies Warns Of "Perfect Storm" In West Africa

Aluminum Giant Alcoa To Sell Dormant Smelter To Bitcoin-Miner NYDIG: Report Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, US aluminium giant Alcoa is reportedly nearing a deal to offload its long-idle Massena East smelter in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). The company is in advanced discussions and expects the transaction to close “in the middle part of this year,” CEO Bill Oplinger told Bloomberg on Friday. The site, located along the St. Lawrence River, has been inactive since 2014 after Alcoa shut it down amid rising energy...

"Bring Your Own Capacity" - Google And Voltus To Deploy Virtual Power Plant  Google signed a three-year Bring Your Own Capacity (BYOC) agreement with Voltus for up to 100 MW of accredited distributed capacity in the PJM Interconnection. Voltus will aggregate batteries, smart thermostats, electric vehicles, and other flexible assets from homes and businesses into a Google-funded Virtual Power Plant (VPP).  When the grid needs relief, the software dispatches those resources in concert. Participants get paid, and Google gets capacity without waiting for traditional interconnection queues. A VPP is not a physical...

Israeli strikes on Gaza on Sunday killed at least 12 people, including two children and a pregnant woman, as the Israeli military continues its violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. The Associated Press reported that a strike on Sunday morning hit a house in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza, killing a man, his […]