Security and cost concerns elevate business push for overhaul of power systems

Congolese minister met Belgian officials to discuss records mapping former colony’s mineral wealth

Groups eye windfall as technology’s potential to deliver abundant power attracts investors

Lionheart Capital and Keo Energy create Nasdaq-listed company to pursue assets in Latin American nation.

Winston Soosaipillai accused of creating a ‘web of deceit’ before energy group collapsed

Revised Corporate Net-zero Standard faces criticism over renewable energy rules

Also in this newsletter: Revolt against deficit spending to temper energy prices

Group took $176mn hit and parted ways with its head electricity and gas trader as winter volatility battered positions

PM Jonas Gahr Støre tells FT that Europe should seek energy security as he presses bloc to scrap drilling ban in High North

Orion CMC looking at Duval family’s stake in group where the French state is a shareholder

It depends on electricity rates, where you live and how much time you spend at home — as well as your broader motivation

Multilateral lender says 15 countries have requested $4bn in emergency support due to war in Iran

Companies able to claim they have made ‘best efforts’ even if they fall short of climate goals

Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’

Electrification is the purchase of optionality and China bought more of it than any nation in history

Resistance is rising as the technology becomes more essential to meet surging power demand

Still-ample stocks and some more reactive producers and consumers look to have left the world better equipped to cope with disruption

Copper and aluminium had been rallying before Middle East conflict hit supply

Rivals had hit out at Britain’s largest household supplier, arguing it was unfair it could keep taking on customers

Higher prices are prompting some miners to take up their shovels