Generative AI requires massive amounts of power and water, and the aging US grid can't handle the load
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Climate hero or villain? As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, Norway is a paradox.
11 votes -
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
19 votes -
The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
11 votes -
California grid meets and surpasses demand during the day in heat wave due to renewables, batteries
49 votes -
AI boom risk: Can the world's power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
14 votes -
Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on UK onshore windfarms
34 votes -
In Wyoming, TerraPower moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation
25 votes -
GridStatus.io - see electricity use in each US region
8 votes -
Sun machines
7 votes -
Spain has more green power than it can use
22 votes -
French power slumps as surging renewables push out atomic plants
14 votes -
Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
10 votes -
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
21 votes -
Sweden's nuclear power goal is challenging but attainable – government wants 2.5 gigawatts of new capacity online by 2035
8 votes -
How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
16 votes -
Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
7 votes -
California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
18 votes -
Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
21 votes -
Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell [nuclear reactor] control-room simulator
7 votes -
Europe's gas supply once again hinges on one company – Equinor now plays an outsized role in the ups and downs of the continent's gas prices
6 votes -
Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
12 votes -
New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
9 votes -
A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
10 votes -
Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly Californian electricity charges
18 votes -
America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
13 votes -
Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion
8 votes -
A golden age of renewables is beginning, and California is leading the way
26 votes -
Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
43 votes -
Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
9 votes -
Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
19 votes -
US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale
24 votes -
Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
15 votes -
The US will lose more than thirty gigawatts of solar energy during the total eclipse — roughly the output of thirty nuclear reactors — as sunlight is blocked during prime generating hours
17 votes -
Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time
25 votes -
Why crypto could be green power's unlikely new best friend
13 votes -
California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
31 votes -
Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
28 votes -
The true cost of offshore wind (and its crisis): what can we learn?
6 votes -
Natural gas is scamming America
25 votes -
Climate sustainability through a dynamic duo: Green hydrogen and crypto driving energy transition and decarbonization
5 votes -
Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
19 votes -
Germany’s solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
17 votes -
100,000 years and counting – how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
20 votes -
Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
13 votes -
Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
23 votes -
How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater
16 votes -
Hydropower can be an environmental and human disaster – but do the risks have to be so big?
10 votes -
Solar comprises over half of new energy production, reaching a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII
30 votes