Shares of power producers were more or less flat after a long-awaited climate bill passed the Senate.
First Solar shares rallied after analysts at brokerage Guggenheim said the company stood to gain from solar-panel incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act.
The bill passed by the Senate on Sunday will lock in cost savings for customers of solar panels for a decade, said the chief executive of SunRun, the largest developer of solar roof projects.
French waste-water concern Veolia Environnement said it would sell Suez's U.K. waste business to Macquarie Group in a $2.44 billion deal.
Électricité de France, France's nuclear power provider, has received permission for five of its reactors to discharge hot water into rivers as Europe struggles with a heat wave and energy crisis.
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