Some of the UK’s biggest energy companies participate in a practice that regulators say drives prices higher.

Volkswagen AG is set to receive hundreds of millions of euros in trading profits as it offloads a massive natural-gas hedge, selling large amounts of fuel it previously purchased back into the German...

British consumers are paying one of the world’s most profitable trading houses a record price to keep their homes warm and lights on as freezing temperatures boost demand.

The UK government is preparing to offer significantly higher subsidies for new offshore wind farms to get the country’s clean-power strategy back on track after developers shunned a previous auction.

UK gas producers and electricity generators may make excess profits totaling as much as £170 billion ($199 billion) over the next two years, according to Treasury estimates that lay bare the revenu...

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Some of Europe’s biggest energy firms are overstating how much wind power they’ll add to the UK’s creaking grid — receiving millions to flick the off switch.

Drax, one of the country’s biggest energy producers, managed to avoid returning hundreds of millions to households during a historic cost-of-living crisis

Drax Group Plc’s giant power station in northern England will be able to produce power from burning coal longer than planned after agreeing to a government request to help shore up supplies this...

Uniper SE’s British coal plant will extend the life of a unit that was set to shut down this year as the country seeks to secure energy supplies ahead of winter.

UK households will pay almost triple the price to heat their homes this winter compared with a year ago, a jarring increase for millions of people already struggling to afford everyday essentials.

The UK energy regulator Ofgem is investigating the behavior of wind farms that have been overstating how much power they will produce.

The UK plans to slash the wholesale prices that are incorporated into business energy bills this winter, people familiar with the matter said, as the government tries to contain the economic damage...

The UK government should investigate whether power trading firms are manipulating the country’s electricity markets to boost their profits, former Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband said.

Electricite de France SA’s power trading business lost as much as €480 million ($519 million) during an unexpected surge in European energy prices in the fall of 2021, according to an ex-trader suing...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled out of a controversial U.K. oil project, a win for environmentalists as the development of a new North Sea field was left hanging in the balance.

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Britain’s cost of living crisis is claiming another casualty: the Aga.

Britain’s unusually warm weather last month brought down the cost of the government’s energy subsidies by over a quarter of a billion pounds, in a rare fiscal boost for Chancellor of the Exchequer...

European coal surged to historic highs as sanctions against Russia for its assault on Ukraine tighten the global market, driving traders to look elsewhere for the commodity.

The U.K. government is preparing to step in and temporarily run Gazprom PJSC’s British retail supply arm as it comes under increasing pressure from companies turning their backs on Russian business...

Royal Dutch Shell Plc faces a growing campaign against its plans to conduct a seismic survey of potential oil and gas reservoirs off South Africa’s rugged coastline.

When it comes to their own health, some in the pharma industry aren’t waiting for governments to tell them they can mix two different Covid-19 vaccines.

A major shareholder in Drax Group Plc is pushing the UK utility to drop some licenses to harvest trees for biomass in Canada.

Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc. will halt ammonia production at its remaining UK plant in response to soaring natural gas prices, a move that could reduce carbon dioxide supply...

As households and businesses face crippling energy bill increases and fears grow of potential blackouts this winter, recriminations are flying over how Britain

As world leaders struggle this week to limit dangerous global warming, there’s no shortage of investors willing to fund companies doing so.

Britain’s power prices are now among the cheapest in Europe as floods of liquefied natural gas arrive on its shores.

The university said it’ll quit coal and gas investments by 2030 and pledged to boost its renewables portfolio

A largely invisible driver of the green transition is rapidly gaining backers among some of the world’s largest investors, even as other climate initiatives falter.

Sustainability-linked bonds let companies borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets. A Bloomberg News analysis found those goals are weak

The State Bank of India is in talks with Adani Enterprises to extend a loan that would help fund the Carmichael coal mine in Australia.

Many companies are right on track to fulfilling their climate pledge

The UK energy regulator is preparing to ban companies that threaten to turn off their power plants at short notice from then demanding “excessive” prices to remain operational.

Early arrangements to secure supplies of Covid-19 vaccines are paying off for the likes of Israel, Britain, the U.S., and the European Union, the bloc’s relatively sluggish rollout notwithstanding....

British consumers spent as much as £1.1 billion ($1.4 billion) more on electricity and goods last year after losing access to European Union internal energy markets.

The German government is preparing to lend billions to rescue a former arm of Gazprom PJSC now under the control of the country’s energy regulator, according to people familiar with the matter.

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U.K. households, already bracing for their energy bills to rise by “several hundred pounds,” will see a further jump following the collapse of Bulb Energy Ltd. and other suppliers, the regulator said.

Volkswagen AG’s commodity trading profits are outshining carmaking earnings after the company’s nickel hedging position surged in value following last month’s historic short squeeze.

Europe has been gripped by sub-zero temperatures in recent days, sending UK electricity prices to record levels and testing the limit of some countries’ power supplies.

A second British energy supplier has been forced to backtrack after complaints that it trivialized the impact of the energy crisis on consumers just as bills are set to soar.

The 700-meter wide pool of bubbling water in the Baltic Sea caused by the rupture of the Nord Stream gas pipelines points to a climate disaster.

Six years ago, a gambling executive sounded the alarm about smartphone casinos. But in the years since, the industry has boomed — as has its lobbying of UK lawmakers.

The UK’s shadow energy secretary has demanded the government act urgently after a report showed how Drax Group Plc benefited from a loophole in a green-energy subsidy program that he said allowed...

The UK government is close to a deal that will see Octopus Energy Ltd. acquire Bulb Energy Ltd., which went bust last November, as soon this week, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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Europe has changed Russia from its biggest source of imported energy to a bit player.

Water levels on Europe’s Rhine River are again dwindling -- and this time it’s at the risk of the continent’s efforts to boost its energy security.