Focus on Electricity
Water guns mark Thai New Year festivities despite heat wave worries
El Nino and climate change conspire to create record-high temperatures for three days of festivities meant to herald the rainy season, while hydropower...
‘Burning the Bridge to Ostpolitik?’ New paper on shifting Europe to renewables
"Burning the Bridge to Ostpolitik? Stress-Testing Europe’s Shift from Russian Gas to Renewables Using a Global Energy Model" - The Oxford Institute for...
Dead whale in New Jersey had a fractured skull among numerous injuries, experts find
The animal's cause of death is of intense interest to many amid an ongoing controversy involving a belief by opponents of offshore wind...
California battery plant is among world’s largest as power storage booms
The battery plant near Los Angeles is due to come online later this year, and will be able to power about 680,000 homes...
Increasing renewable energy to create more conflicts between environmental values
An Alberta environmental group opposes a solar power project over concerns it would damage antelope habitat and block their migration
US surpasses renewable energy goal for public lands
The U.S. has surpassed a goal of permitting more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands by 2025.
Dead whale on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island is first of the year, stranding group says
It drew renewed outcries from opponents of offshore wind, who believe that site preparation work for oceanic wind farms is harming or even...
Canadian province seeks to regulate electricity for cryptocurrency miners, citing huge demands
British Columbia's energy ministry says cryptocurrency miners consume large amounts of electricity to constantly run high-powered computers, while creating very few jobs or...
How digital tech could improve public transit and reduce emissions, too
A new report from the Institute for Research on Public Policy explores how digital technologies could make public transit "more equitable, efficient and...
IAEA’s Grossi says Zaporizhzhia attacks risk shift in Ukraine war
VIENNA (Reuters) -Drone attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine must stop as they could pose “a new and gravely...
