Which power plant does my electricity come from?
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Gridlock: why it can take eleven years to connect solar farms to the UK network
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Cubans begin third day without power as hurricane nears
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A water crisis looms in southern Africa
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Southern Water, serving 4.7mn UK customers, in discussions with private supplier to tanker water from Norwegian fjords to mitigate against potential supply shortages and drought
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Modeling shows that reconductoring can quickly beef up grids
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Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job, that energy companies reduced energy supply before storm
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Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
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Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging US grid can't handle the load
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California grid meets and surpasses demand during the day in heat wave due to renewables, batteries
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AI boom risk: Can the world's power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
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French power slumps as surging renewables push out atomic plants
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AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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These autonomous drones can recharge themselves from power lines
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly Californian electricity charges
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AI to drive natural gas boom as utilities face surging data center demand
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Connecting solar to the grid is harder than you think
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Starburst – Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it?
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Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in the US
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Live UK National Grid statistics
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The Grid, Part III: The dream of deregulation
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Vermont utility plans to end outages by giving customers batteries
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Nigerian power grid in ‘total system collapse’. Generation falls to zero, with blackouts across most of Africa’s largest economy
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US extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part
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Toyota takes its biggest US port off the grid with hydrogen system
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China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority
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Despite years of Maui wildfire warnings, Hawaii Electric the Hawaii utility giant did little and spent more on lobbying than prevention
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Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show
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The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
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Every generator is a policy failure
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Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times
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Mathew Lawrence on why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
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Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips Texas
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Renewables are the only reason Texas' power grid hasn't failed during this month's punishing heat wave
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ERCOT will tap reserve power faster under system launched this week
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Mälarenergi has embarked on a project to fill caverns underneath Västerås, Sweden with hot water – warmth will be sent via heat exchangers to a district heating network
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Australia is quitting coal in record time thanks to Tesla
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An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022
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How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
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Finnish utility Fortum plans to add 560 megawatt capacity by reactivating an idle coal-fired power plant on Finland's west coast
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The nuts and bolts of siting and building power lines
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Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy
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Swedish power utility Vattenfall considering building at least two new small nuclear reactors to deal with a projected rise in electricity consumption over the coming decades
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