The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

South Africa has scaled back its ambitions to cut down on the greenhouse emissions that come from burning fossil fuels and which cause global warming.

Details of Ecotricity contract emerge in freedom of information response

Experts say the Texas Energy Fund is facing an energy market that makes new power plants more expensive and less profitable.

Elon Musk may be racing Google in the AI colosseum, but his real anxiety is pointed east. The billionaire, whose startup xAI is churning out jaw-dropping milestones at breakneck speed, posted on X that "companies in China will be the toughest competitors" because of their sheer dominance in electricity generation…

A massive new artificial intelligence data center is coming to Wyoming, and it's so big that it will eventually use five times more electricity than all the homes in the state combined, according to the mayor of the state’s largest city.

Unlike solar panels, solar thermoelectric generators can convert heat from any source into electricity. But poor efficiency has held the technology back – until now.

According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March

The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

In today’s world, huge amounts of data are being created all the time, yet more than half of it is never used. It stays in silos, or isn’t managed, or can’t be accessed because systems change, or isn’t needed because business priorities change. This “dark data” accumulates in servers and…

Here are eight effective and affordable strategies for reducing energy expenses without a big investment -- if any at all.

The bills most likely to go up in 2026? Energy related. To get ahead of possible price hikes, you might want to start cutting now or trimming usage.