Bloomberg France’s grid operator will test storing excess wind and solar power in batteries to reduce the need to build new transmission lines that involve heavy construction work and take longer to complete. Network operators across Europe are seeking ways to both minimise the cost and environmental impact of the energy transition. Reseau de Transport d’Electricite estimates that France will ...

As America weighs abuses of power in this season of impeachment and trial, it’s worth taking a careful second look at the FBI’s behaviour in its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016. Republicans are outraged by what happened, and Democrats should be, too. It’s not that the FBI’s misdeeds excuse those of Donald Trump’s. Quite the opposite: ...

Cord-cutting isn’t stopping. As it turns out, that’s not such bad news for cable giants like Comcast Corp. It is, however, for AT&T Inc. The streaming wars intensified in the fourth quarter amid Walt Disney Co.’s advertising blitz for its new Disney+ service that overtook billboards, shopping malls, public transit and Twitter feeds. At the same time, Apple Inc. began ...