Business
What European companies decide and do: projects, contracts, costs, deals, and the people hired to run the work.
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Circularity
Circularity
A Czech glassworks locks in recycled cullet for five years
The contract is a hedge against energy costs as much as a climate target.
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Ports
Ports
Rotterdam tenders shore power for the container terminals
Ships at berth will have to plug in. The question is who pays for the connection.
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Energy
Energy
A Spanish shipyard signs a ten-year contract for yard power
The yard wants a fixed price before it lays the keel on the next series of ships.
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Featured Energy
A Nordic utility signs a 15-year power contract with an aluminium smelter
Fixed-price power is becoming the condition for keeping heavy industry in Europe.
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Grids
Featured Grids
A Polish grid operator raises its spending plan for industrial connections
Factories waiting for a connection are now the bottleneck in the transition plan.
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Leadership
Leadership
A French retailer appoints a finance executive to run sustainability
The job is moving from communications to the people who sign the accounts.
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Energy
Energy
Italian ceramics makers pool their energy purchasing
Mid-size plants are buying together to get contract terms they could not get alone.
Partner Industrial heat
When a factory heat pump pays back, and when it does not
A plant-level look at temperature, power price, and the contract that decides the investment.
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