Bloomberg Octopus Energy Ltd. signed a power-purchase agreement with Shell Energy Europe Ltd. to buy electricity from what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm once built. Shell, which has offtake agreements for 20% of the energy produced by the Dogger Bank project off northeast England, will supply Octopus with as much as 2.4 terawatt-hours a year, starting in …

Bloomberg The UK’s National Grid Plc will run a test of one of the country’s coal-fired power generators that’s being kept in reserve to boost supplies this winter. A Drax Group Plc unit will start up and generate as much as 300 megawatts as the grid operator checks that contingency tools are ready and working if needed. Temperatures plummeted to …

  Bloomberg Australia passed a law to cap domestic prices of natural gas to limit the impact of soaring global costs on local power bills, ignoring protests from the nation’s powerful energy exporters. At a special sitting, Australia’s parliament passed legislation to cap wholesale gas prices for 12 months. The government also agreed with state and territory leaders to impose …