Energy

  Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC, the Russian state-controlled energy giant, is already in the process of settling a $1.3 billion debt due on Monday. The company wired the cash to the settlement bank, which will probably release the funds on March 4, a person familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified because the information is private. Gazprom also has ...

Bloomberg Europe’s biggest industrial firms have been banking on spring to bring down soaring energy costs. Those hopes faded this week as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. Smelters and chemical factories across Europe were already struggling before the invasion sparked another jump in gas and electricity prices. Now, a growing list of companies including Europe’s biggest chemicals maker BASF SE ...

  Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd is stepping up the use of renewable energy with a goal of zeroing out emissions by 2030, acknowledging the damage wrought by its data centers while heeding Beijing’s call to protect the environment. The Chinese social media and gaming giant plans to use all but renewable energy by the same timeframe and has already purchased ...

Bloomberg Wind power is making a comeback in Europe as three named stormed battered the region in recently, helping ease reliance on fossil fuels just as tensions over Ukraine are running high. Turbines in the European Union generated a record 14.9 terawatt-hours of electricity last week, with Germany producing the most wind power ever, according to data from research institute ...

  Bloomberg Australian utility AGL Energy Ltd rejected a multibillion-dollar takeover bid from Brookfield Asset Management Inc and technology billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, who plan to accelerate the closure of the company’s polluting coal-fired power plants. Brookfield and Cannon-Brookes’s investment firm Grok Ventures have a $14 billion transition plan to shift AGL to clean energy and “remains optimistic that an agreement ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia began generating electricity from its giant hydropower dam on a Nile River tributary, a project it sees as key to its economic development but that has stirred tensions with downstream neighbours. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) can now start the first phase of generation, authorities said at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Guba, ...

  Bloomberg State-run miner Coal India Ltd warned production of the fuel may be hampered, risking new threats to the nation’s energy supply, if the company isn’t able to raise prices. The world’s largest coal producer is facing cost pressures from a looming rise in salaries and on higher prices of diesel used to power mine equipment. Some of the ...

  Bloomberg The renewable energy arm of China Resources Power Holdings Co has picked banks including ABC International Holdings Ltd and China International Capital Corp for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter. The power generation company’s unit is also working with HSBC Holdings Plc and Morgan Stanley on a proposed first-time share ...

  Bloomberg Indian Oil Corp Ltd, the country’s biggest oil refiner and a large user of hydrogen, expects prices of the cleanest form of the fuel to halve after the government scrapped fees on wheeling renewable power across the country. The offer to waive transmission charges on green energy from one state to the other can reduce costs by as ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s biggest steelmaker is calling on Tokyo to provide at least 2 trillion yen ($17.3 billion) in subsidies over almost three decades to meet net-zero carbon targets, as it seeks to stay competitive against China and other global rivals. Nippon Steel needs the money to vie on an “equal footing,” according to Hideo Suzuki, the managing executive officer ...