Bloomberg Decisions to raise prices again are becoming “more difficult” as inflation wears on, Procter & Gamble Co Chief Financial Officer Andre Schulten said. The Tide maker is focused on offsetting higher costs with productivity savings to minimise the need for price increases. But it still sees a need to charge more to fund innovation that it believes will ...

  Bloomberg A plan to turn carbon dioxide into limestone — and sell it at a profit — is getting some high-profile backing as BP Plc signs a deal with a San Antonio chemical company that aims to transform greenhouse gas emissions from a liability to a commodity. Under the arrangement, BP and CarbonFree Chemicals Holdings LLC will collaborate to ...

  Bloomberg Europe’s industries and transportation systems waste so much heat that capturing the excess and reusing it could save consumers more than €67 billion ($71.3 billion), a Danish engineering company said. The surplus produced each year by factories, supermarkets, wastewater facilities, data centers and subways amounts to 2,860 terawatt-hours, nearly the same as the European Union’s total demand for ...

  Bloomberg South Africa is experiencing an unprecedented level of power blackouts. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. cut 7,045 megawatts from the grid — a move to prevent a total shutdown of the national grid — spokesman Sikonathi Mantshantsha said in a Tweet. He confirmed that the intensity of power cuts increased to the so-called Stage 7 of loadshedding, as the ...

Bloomberg European gas prices rose amid expectations of higher demand from power producers, after a recent slump improved the profitability of the fuel compared to coal. Benchmark futures have been fluctuating near €50 over the last few days after plunging about 35% since the start of the year. Together with surging carbon prices, that could rein in an increased reliance ...

  Bloomberg Eni SpA posted a record annual profit due to high oil and gas prices, despite its fourth quarter missing estimates. The Italian energy giant followed its peers with stellar earnings for 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent the value of key commodities soaring. Eni’s fourth-quarter adjusted net income was €2.5 billion ($2.6 billion), missing the average analyst ...

  Bloomberg Even as solar power grows into one of the world’s largest sources of new energy, the industry behind it is facing unprecedented volatility as a battle for profits intensifies. The roller-coaster ride is best seen through the lens of polysilicon, the key material in solar panels. Prices fell more than 40% over the course of a few weeks ...

  Bloomberg The UK needs to advance its green finance agenda or risk falling behind as rivals pursue ambitious regulatory and subsidy programs, according to an expert panel advising the government. The nation’s Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG) said the government should provide clarity to investors on what a green investment is through a so-called taxonomy. The UK’s rules should ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google urged employees to discuss sensitive topics via chats that would be automatically deleted after 24 hours and the company should face penalties for failing to preserve records needed for an antitrust suit, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court. Google assured the government’s lawyers that it was maintaining all records starting in November 2019, according ...

  Bloomberg Space-launch company United Launch Alliance (ULA) delayed the debut flight of its next-generation rocket, Vulcan, by at least a month to early May. Vulcan will be ready by mid-April but the mission’s main payload, a lunar lander built by Astrobotic Technology, can only launch within short, specific time windows each month, the company said in a press conference. ...