March 9 (Reuters) - Italy's largest regional power utility A2A said on Saturday it has signed a 1.22-billion euro ($1.3 billion)agreement with utility Enel subsidiary e-distribuzione for electricity distribution networks in Lombardy. The agreement provides for the formation of a newly incorporated company to which e-distribuzione will contribute its electricity distribution assets in the province of Milan and and Valtrompia,...

March 9 (Reuters) - Italy's largest regional power utility A2A said on Saturday it has signed a 1.22 billion euro ($1.31 billion) agreement with the country's largest utility Enel for electricity distribution networks in Lombardy. ($1 = 0.9143 euros) ...

GRIFFITH, Australia (Reuters) - Millions of vines are being destroyed in Australia and tens of millions more must be pulled up to rein in overproduction that has crushed grape prices and threatens the livelihoods of growers and wine makers. Falling consumption of wine worldwide has hit Australia particularly hard as demand shrinks fastest for the cheaper reds that are its...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's lithium industry would benefit from a stabilisation of prices of the battery metal, which is set for a long-term uptrend, said the chairman of Ganfeng Lithium, a major Chinese supplier of the battery metal. Lithium demand from producers of power batteries, energy storage and others will keep growing amid an irreversible trend of global energy transition,...