To better serve the growing power and grid reliability needs in Africa, GE’s Distributed Power (NYSE: GE) announced that it has recently signed an agreement with Clarke Energy to serve as GE’s distributor of Jenbacher gas engines for six additional countries in Africa.

Danish biotechnology firm Novozymes said it expects a slight rise in US ethanol output in 2017, after an increase in production in the first quarter of the year. But the company says US demand is down and inventories in the country are rising.

An annual conference of inventors and rationalizers was held at PJSC TATNEFT.