Bloomberg Bouygues SA won a construction contract worth at least 1.7 billion euros ($1.8 billion) for the controversial Hinkley Point nuclear plant in the UK that will use the same technology as over-budget and delayed projects in France and Finland. Bouygues will work with UK firm Laing O’Rourke on construction of the buildings that will house the two nuclear …

  Bloomberg Arctic chill and heavy snowfall left tens of thousands of households in southeastern Europe without electricity as rivers froze over, cables failed and power stations had unplanned outages. From Greece to Hungary, hydroelectric production plummeted as temperatures fell as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) and parts of the Danube river were almost entirely covered …

  Bloomberg The egg-shaped flying river taxi is gaining support, as SeaBubbles seeks to close its third funding round in under a year and aims to firm up interest from potential customers, including the city of Paris and companies in the San Francisco Bay. To build the first battery-powered bubble-shaped ships that hover a few inches above the water and …