The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

AI datacenters are driving up U.S. power demand and boosting coal generation by nearly 20%, but while nuclear plants supply the steady output needed for long training runs, coal and renewables mainly serve to stabilize the grid and absorb the sharp, unpredictable power spikes from AI workloads.

Southwark Council is offering Castle Square businesses a payment plan to settle their arrears

On Friday, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned that Big Tech firms such as Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) could face growing backlash from local communities unless they act to offset rising electricity rates tied to massive AI data center expansion.

The grid operator Red Eléctrica has warned that an "abrupt voltage variation" could affect power supply, prompting residents to prepare for another blackout.

OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in AI. Its ability to generate minutes of hyper-realistic footage from a few lines of text is astonishing, and has raised immediate concerns about truth in politics and journalism.

Multiverse Computing uses quantum-physics-inspired algorithms to shrink AI models—making them cheaper and more energy-efficient.

Around 1,000 engineers and tree cutters were involved in the Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks’ response.

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TerraPower, a nuclear energy company, is scaling up production of a key cancer drug.

Electrifying factories could significantly reduce carbon emissions by allowing heavy industry to store and use heat like power in a battery.