The Texas electrical grid failure was a warmup
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Sweden has earmarked $661 million for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households cope with high electricity bills this winter
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The hidden background noise that can catch criminals
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The big misconception about electricity
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Storm Arwen power cuts: 30,000 still waiting to be reconnected
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Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
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Hundreds of banned crypto miners were siphoning power at China’s state firms
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India’s power outage risks increase as coal stockpiles plummet
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A German power plant just ran out of coal in latest energy shock
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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites
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Repairing underground, high voltage power lines is nearly impossible
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Norway agrees to increase natural gas exports to the rest of Europe as prices soar – increase corresponds to nearly 2% of Norway's annual pipeline gas exports
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Winter is coming and Europe is running scarily low on gas
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Electrify everything is slow
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Cheap material could help convert waste heat into electricity
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New Form Energy iron-air battery outperforms best lithium ion tech
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5% of electric plants responsible for 73% of power sector emissions
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PG&E will bury 10,000 miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires
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ITER site construction is now 78% complete
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Why 10,000 volts at altitude is a bad idea
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Texas’ “failsafe” generators failed, risking weeks-long catastrophe
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How high voltage arcing happens, and why it happens so much easier at higher altitudes
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LAVO hydrogen battery system
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TVO cleared for fuel loading at Olkiluoto Unit 3
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What really happened during the Texas power grid outage?
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
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Texas' grid operator warns rolling blackouts are possible as winter storm escalates demand for electricity
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Nearly 100,000 remain without power in Portland as outages stretch into sixth day
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Natural gas skyrockets again to $500 as blackouts spread in US
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Powerpaste ‘goo’ stores ten times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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Low cost metal 3D printing by electrochemistry
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US consumes more green energy than coal for first time since 1885
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Georgia Power receives first nuclear fuel shipment for Vogtle Unit 3
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Why are nuclear plants so expensive? Safety’s only part of the story
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Sweden has shut down one of four nuclear reactors at its largest power station after over forty years of operation, with operators citing a lack of profitability
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On the seventh day after the blackout, electricity rotation still does not work in all regions of Amapá (Brazilian state)
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13MW GE-built Haliade-X turbines confirmed for the world's largest wind farms off the UK coast—the 3.6GW Dogger Bank project
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British plugs are better than all other plugs, and here's why
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Inside the Icelandic facility where Bitcoin is mined—cryptocurrency mining now uses more of the Nordic island nation's electricity than its homes
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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UAE starts operations at Arab world's first nuclear power plant
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Work has begun on Viking Link, the world's longest electricity interconnector which will allow power to travel between the UK and Denmark
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BP data reveals newly-installed clean electricity generation matched coal for the first time in 2019
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Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
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Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts
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2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal
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Solar’s future is insanely cheap
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Sweden closes last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule – country becomes third in Europe to exit coal, ahead of mass withdrawal from polluting fossil fuel
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