> The glowing phone booth, it turns out, is actually a giant battery. Built by… more
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> A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily… more
> As temperatures climbed into the high 80s and low 90s and air conditioners… more
> A nuclear plant in northern France shut down three reactors after a swarm of… more
> AI data centers' thirst for energy is so severe it can wreck gear on and off… more
> The Federal Communications Commission Public Safety and Homeland Security… more
> We can look at this question on two levels. The first is the total amount of… more
> Startup Peak Energy launched in 2023 with a promise to bring the… more
> Ukraine’s operation, named “Molochka”, began on July 6. Ukraine’s commander… more
> Data centres accounted for almost a quarter of the electricity consumed in… more
> This study analyzes the primary drivers of recent state-level trends in U.S.… more
> PJM Interconnection, which serves 67 million people across 13 states from the… more
> AI GPU maker Nvidia just announced a “hotter than a hot tub” liquid cooling… more
> The largest wind energy project in U.S. history is now online, delivering… more
> Until recently, almost all announced gigafactories in the U.S. were intended… more
> Some parts of India are grappling with power cuts as record-breaking heat has… more
> Colorado is the latest state to approve plug-in solar (also known as balcony… more
> Ukraine is revamping its power sector as rapidly as it can, not for climate… more
> China has called for “concerted efforts” to ease its solar power industry’s… more
> In western Illinois, ComEd is tapping a rarely used technique to fast-track… more
> The Merino heat pump is a single-room system, as opposed to the popular… more
> China is the world’s largest importer of natural gas and the largest consumer… more
> Like your refrigerator or AC unit, what makes heat pump water heaters… more
> Developer Arevon has begun building a 1-gigawatt-hour storage project in Daly… more
> From emergency orders to the war in Iran, the Trump Administration has kept… more
> Many nations in Southeast Asia began significantly ramping up import volumes… more
> After an Israeli strike Wednesday on Iran’s portion of the South Pars gas… more
> On a median day, I estimate I consume 1,300 Wh through Claude Code—4,400… more
> Every time Russia attacks Ukraine’s power infrastructure, Ukrainian engineers… more
> “Due to military attacks on QatarEnergy’s operating facilities in Ras Laffan… more
> There has recently been a lot of attention to the concept of ‘deep… more
> After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians,… more
> All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in… more
> As the world has entered the terawatt age of photovoltaic (PV) deployment,… more
> According to the National Association of Chimney Sweeps, demand has been… more
> [A] new study from researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and… more
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> The price at Alberta’s AECO hub fell below zero at the start of last week,… more
> Rondo Energy has begun commercial operations of what it says is the world’s… more
> Base Power has sold more than 100 megawatt-hours’ worth of its home storage… more
> A fire on Friday at a state data center in South Korea caused a nationwide… more
> In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of… more
> When completed, the project - also known as the Motuo Hydropower Station -… more
> In 2023, about 90% of old or faulty solar panels in the U.S. ended up in… more
Much of the story in this New Yorker article is familiar, but here are some… more