Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally is proposing to regulate electricity prices for 10 years to curb inflation, according to a party lawmaker, as it prepares for next year’s presidential election.

TotalEnergies SE will return billions of dollars more to investors as the oil and gas giant rides a wave of growing production and high fuel prices.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would convene a meeting of the Group of Seven countries in the coming weeks to discuss a potential release from strategic oil-product stockpiles as soaring energy prices sap economic growth.

TotalEnergies SE said it may be reimbursed about $1.3 billion for loans to the Arctic LNG 2 project as it completed its exit from the US-sanctioned liquefied natural gas venture in Russia.

French utility Engie SA’s growth in renewables and battery storage will temporarily slow this year as the Trump administration continues to take time in delivering permits in the US despite growing power demand, Chief Executive Officer Catherine MacGregor said.

French utility Engie SA raised its full-year profit forecast as it benefits from currency fluctuations, its huge acquisition in the UK, cost cuts and energy market volatility linked to the war in the Middle East, which helped mitigate a profit decline in the first six months of the year.

TotalEnergies SE said second-quarter earnings surged as conflict-related supply disruptions boosted prices for crude and refined products, offsetting a drop in profit from its gas business.

Middle East oil producers are desperate to sell crude stockpiled during the recent Persian Gulf conflict, but gasoline and diesel inventories remain constrained due to shipping worries, TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanné said.

Engie North America is assessing the damage from hurricane-force winds that tore through a South Dakota wind farm earlier this week, damaging more than 20 of the site’s 92 turbines.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset management unit has emerged as the leading bidder to buy Antin Infrastructure Partners SA’s French heating and cooling network operator, Idex, people familiar with the matter said.

French natural gas consumers are set to pay more for network maintenance over the coming decades as falling demand for the fuel means the infrastructure will be financed by fewer users, the industry regulator said.

French natural gas consumers are set to pay more for network maintenance over the coming decades as falling demand for the fuel means the infrastructure will be financed by fewer users, the industry regulator said.

French natural gas consumers are set to pay more for network maintenance over the coming decades as falling demand for the fuel means the infrastructure will be financed by fewer users, the industry regulator said.

Europe is experiencing an early, intense heat wave.

Suez SA and partners won a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) water-services contract in Oman, the French firm’s largest deal in the Middle East.

Chilled water and miles of pipes create eco-friendly air conditioning for the city

Electricite de France SA said that KKR & Co. agreed to buy its renewable power businesses in the US and Canada, the latest landmark deal in the rush to amass electricity assets for the AI boom.

TotalEnergies SE was ordered by a Paris court to amend its climate change plans to also target the impact of indirect emissions produced in its value chain by customers.

Europe’s electricity system is under mounting pressure from an intense heat wave, with extreme swings in power prices as soaring temperatures drive up demand and curb output.

The French Parliament adopted a bill to loosen Electricite de France SA’s grip on the hydropower market, a move aimed at ending a spat with the European Union and unlocking billions of euros in investment for new generation capacity.