The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

A stingray: do they get a little light-headed as they feel the electricity brighten, speed up, then die?

Most venomous creatures store their poison in a gland. Not the stingray, whose venom is in its very tissue

The Guardian - AU · Dec 12, 2022

How you can get paid for using appliances at off-peak times

The Demand Flexibility Service scheme set for launch after trial by energy supplier saw some customers paid £2 per kilowatt hour

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022

‘Tedious and horrible’: What life was like during the 1970s blackouts

As the National Grid warns Britons could face blackouts due to the energy crisis we look back at the last time the country was plunged into darkness

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022

‘People can’t afford milk’: Moldovans weigh political future as Ukraine war hits economy

Pro-Kremlin rhetoric is catching on with some as winter heating and basic foods become unaffordable

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

UK facing ‘tough road’ as recession looms despite economy growing in October – as it happened

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns economy likely to get worse before improving, after UK GDP rose 0.5% in October, but shrank by 0.3% in the August-October quarter

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

Indonesia's climate target still got the worst rating despite being “more ambitious”

Global research coalition Climate Action Tracker (CAT) categorises Indonesia’s climate goals as “Critically Insufficient”, which means they are far from enough to curb global warming.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2022

Former Synergy chief engineer fears for summer power supplies in Perth and southern WA

On a warmish evening across Perth and southern WA recently, something happened to make Andy Wearmouth feel very uncomfortable, while just about everybody else in the state remained blissfully ignorant.

ABC News · Dec 11, 2022

UK power prices hit record high amid cold snap and lack of wind power

Severely cold weather has come with low wind speeds, creating perfect storm to drive wholesale costs up

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Russia Drones Smash Power Network in Ukraine’s Odesa, Leaving 1.5 Million without Power

All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, leaving 1.5 million people without power, officials said on Saturday. "The situation in the Odesa region is very difficult," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 11, 2022

Ukraine says 1.5 million in Odesa region without power after Russia strikes

More than 1.5 million people in Ukraine's southern Odesa region are without power after Russian drone strikes on the electricity generating system, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address on Saturday.

Reuters · Dec 10, 2022