Bloomberg Austria’s biggest company, also one of Europe’s greenest utilities, is buying into natural gas pipelines to build a new hydrogen economy for power-hungry industries. Verbund AG’S decision to purchase a network of pipelines this year perplexed some analysts. Unlike German and Italian utilities expanding in green power across the continent, the Austrian utility opted to deploy cash in domestic …

Bloomberg Liquefied natural gas has made a dramatic rebound from a pandemic-induced demand collapse, and the rally in the heating and power-plant fuel could extend into next year. The onset of colder weather in key importing nations, outages at major production hubs and congestion along global shipping routes have combined to push spot prices in Asia this week to the …

Bloomberg Clean-energy stocks are surging as the US Congress considers extending tax breaks for wind and solar energy. JinkoSolar Holding Co, one of the world’s biggest publicly traded panel producers gained as much as 16% last week. Sunrun Inc, the biggest US residential solar installer, rose as much as 7.7%. SunPower Corp climbed as much as 12%. Congress has debated …