Bloomberg Duke Energy Corp planned to close its last six coal power plants in the Carolinas by 2030 to accelerate the company’s carbon-cutting goals. South Carolina regulators said no—ordering the US utility to keep the plants open longer. The decision sets up a showdown as Duke Energy appeals a regulatory response that threatens the company’s preferred plan to speed ...

  Bloomberg Korea Gas Corp, one of the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas importers, expects to win benefits from its current business as it shifts to a future focused on hydrogen. “We’ll completely transform our LNG-driven operations into hydrogen by 2050 in line with South Korea’s carbon neutrality target,” Lee Jae Hoon, a general manager of the company’s hydrogen business ...

  Bloomberg South Africa registered two solar projects as part of a process designed to cut red tape and help increase the pace of private generation in a nation that’s headed for a record year of power cuts. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa approved the projects, the biggest since President Cyril Ramaphosa removed the need for seeking licenses ...

  Bloomberg TotalEnergies SE said it will acquire a stake in a large US renewables developer, another move by the European energy giant to expand its footprint in the American power sector. The French firm agreed to buy a 50% stake in Clearway Energy Group from Global Infrastructure Partners for $1.6 billion in cash, it said in a statement. GIP ...

  Bloomberg European natural gas prices headed for a third straight weekly decline as fears over further disruptions to Russian supplies waned. Benchmark futures fell as much as 4.3%, hitting the lowest level since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian shipments are expected to remain stable, even as flows through one cross-border point in Ukraine remain cut off ...

The first tourists have begun to trickle back into Japan, with a few guided tour groups arriving in a small experiment designed to get locals used to the idea of foreign visitors. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is promising to let in more package tours starting next month as the country starts to reopen. Foreigners have actually been visible for several ...

High-end shoppers are still spending, for now at least. After Kohl’s Corp Chief Executive Officer Michelle Gass pointed to a “bifurcation” of consumers, as some Americans traded up to premium brands while others downshifted to cheaper private labels, upmarket department store Nordstrom Inc has continued the polarisation theme. The seller of $1,000 Mach & Mach shoes and $2,000 Burberry trench ...

  It’s rare to see the Labour Party offer such a fulsome embrace of a set of Conservative policy announcements. Then again, opposition leader Keir Starmer’s shadow bench was really cheering Boris Johnson’s government adopting Labour calls for a windfall tax on energy companies and more help for consumers hit with cost-of-living increases. Democracy in action. Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

  The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, New York, moved former Senator Bill Frist — who was the majority leader of a Republican Senate when President George W Bush was in the White House — to issue a statement on guns: “We can find ways to ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc is cutting flights just ahead of the busy Memorial Day weekend and through the summer to help it recover faster from bad weather, higher-than-expected worker absences and other issues that have rattled recent operations. The airline said it will trim about 100 flights a day in the US and Latin America from July 1 through ...