Electricite de France SA has options to ensure that its aging nuclear reactors can continue operate beyond a lifetime of 60 years, according to the head of France’s nuclear safety authority.

President Emmanuel Macron said France will receive liquefied natural gas from Qatar during the winter months and will work to lower fuel transport costs from the Persian Gulf as it seeks to curb soaring energy prices.

France secured fresh supplies of liquefied natural gas from Qatar and will work to lower fuel transport costs from the Persian Gulf as it seeks to curb soaring energy costs tied to the Middle East conflict and war in Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said.

Former French Energy Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said her mobile phone was recently targeted by spy malware three times, possibly from a country with ties to fossil fuel interests.

The largest shareholder in Rubis SCA said the company’s proposal to grant 12.7 million new shares to its general partners was “too generous” and he would probably vote against the plan if it isn’t changed.

TotalEnergies SE will continue to bear down on pump prices in France through the current oil crisis, as it participates in a government-led release of strategic diesel reserves to further ease consumer costs, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said.

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said France will release diesel reserves to lower prices at the pump and vowed to keep a lid on energy bills this winter in a bid to quell a cost-of-living crisis.

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.