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Bloomberg The UK power market is showing signs of strain. For the fourth time this winter National Grid Plc warned that the buffer needed to ensure security of supply and keep the lights on was too small. While the UK has made swift progress on switching from fossil fuels to renewables, this is the downside to cleaning up its energy …

Bloomberg Not since the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis has Denmark’s housing market faced a similar gap between supply and demand, according to the home finance unit of Nordea Bank Abp. The number of residential properties for sale has plunged to its lowest in over a decade, Nordea Kredit estimates, citing new figures compiled by the website boligsiden.dk. The …

Bloomberg UK house price growth rises to a six-year high in December, rounding off a strong 2020 for the market that defied a wider economic downturn. Values climbed 7.3% from a year earlier to an average of 230,920 pounds ($312,800), Nationwide Building Society said on Wednesday. They increased 0.8% from a month earlier. The housing market has boomed in 2020 …

Bloomberg A measure of home prices in 20 US cities rose in October by the most since 2014 as ultra-low mortgage rates and increased buyer appetite for more space depleted housing inventory. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index of property values climbed 7.95% from the same month the previous year, data showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists …

Bloomberg Britain’s power generation industry is headed for its greenest year yet as more renewable capacity is added and coal plants are needed less often. The carbon intensity — a measure of the environmental impact of generating electricity — has dropped 60% in the UK in the six years to 2019 and is on track to reach another low this …

Bloomberg India has been ordered to return over $1.2 billion to Cairn Energy Plc after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration lost arbitration proceedings in a tax dispute, its second defeat since September over such levies. An international arbitration tribunal ruled that India’s tax claim was not valid and asked the government to repay the funds, along with interest, to Cairn. …

Bloomberg Norway’s top court dismissed an attempt by climate activists to halt Arctic oil exploration by Western Europe’s biggest petroleum-producing nation. The Nordic government beat back a lawsuit by environmental groups in the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled on Tuesday the authorities had acted lawfully by awarding exploration licenses in the Barents Sea to companies including Equinor ASA, Aker BP …

Bloomberg Sweden is fighting a draft European climate measure that it says could harm its world-beating green bond market. The European Commission, which wants to steer investors to socially and environmentally sustainable assets, is proposing that only buildings certified as super-energy efficient by national authorities be included in its taxonomy. Being excluded would make financing more expensive. But national energy …

Bloomberg Danish electrolyser startup Green Hydrogen Systems A/S raised 28 million euros ($34.3 million) to scale up production of the technology that’s at the heart of the European Union’s climate goals. Competition is heating up among makers of the machines to capture a wave of orders that will make up the EU’s first generation of utility-scale green hydrogen production funded …

CAIRO / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt, on Wednesday discussed the prospects of further consolidating the strong cooperation ties between the UAE and Egypt. This came as President el-Sisi received His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin …