Bloomberg Denmark’s government will pay a subsidy totaling 1 billion kroner ($153 million) to some of the country’s poorest households in compensation for higher energy costs. Under the Social Democrat minority cabinet’s deal with support from leftist parties, the Nordic country will pay the one-time subsidy to about 320,000 households with an annual income below 550,000 kroner to help ...

  Bloomberg South Africa published proposed changes to the electricity regulation act that will facilitate the opening of the national power grid to private generators. State-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. has been the dominant supplier of power to Africa’s most industrialized economy for nearly a century, but its inability to meet demand from its poorly maintained coal-fired plants has resulted ...

  An inflation hedge in deflation-prone Japan? At least that’s what Mitsui & Co. is preparing to offer via a coin that may be available as early as this month. According to Nikkei, the trading house is planning a cryptocurrency linked to the yen-denominated price of one gram of gold. Gold is a sideshow in the blockchain world. When it ...