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The U.S. Rocky Mountain region faces some of the country's steepest challenges in power generation, transmission and distribution, with uneven terrain and sparsely populated areas in need of improved service. But the region is making better use of renewable sources and is expanding some transmission networks. Industrial Info is tracking $3.75 billion worth of active Power Industry projects that are set to begin construction in the Rocky Mountains region in second-quarter 2020, two-thirds of which is attributed to power-generation projects.

China was experiencing 11 unplanned offline ethylene plant events and rate cuts amounting to 2.3 billion pounds of ethylene capacity due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, according to IIR Energy's March 10 weekly outlook report. However, the data for all of East Asia shows that "the actual [planned and unplanned] offline capacity this year compared to last is pretty close,