How Joe Biden’s 2035 Green Energy Grid Could Work
In a net-zero future, there would be almost no power plants with uncontrolled emissions. But at the start of this year’s presidential campaign, way back in the spring of 2019, Continue Reading
Most of America’s dirty power plants will be ready to retire by 2035
The U.S. energy transition is well underway. Electricity from solar and wind is increasingly competitive with natural gas power, and the grid is hemorrhaging coal plants that no longer make Continue Reading
Bitcoin Miners Are Starving Entire Cities Of Electricity
In the side streets and narrow alleys of Abkhazia’s main city, a low growl and an oily stench are commonplace. Thrumming diesel generators provide power amid rolling blackouts that have Continue Reading
Xcel Energy to convert oldest Texas coal plant to burn natural gas by January 2025
Xcel Energy Inc. intends to convert its first coal-fired power plant in Texas — a 1,018-MW generating station — to run on natural gas, a plan in line with the Continue Reading
When Will Electricity Companies Finally Quit Natural Gas?
As Americans suffer through immense wildfires, rising coastal flooding and an epic hurricane season, the nation’s corporations want you to believe they are coming to grips with the climate crisis. Continue Reading
U.K.-France Power Link Makes Grid More Nimble for Wind Farms
National Grid’s IFA2 interconnector will power 1 million U.K. homes National Grid Plc has started the final testing phase for its second power link to France, adding much needed flexibility Continue Reading
Coal, nuclear retirements in US Midwest might boost gas-fired power demand
As natural gas storage surpasses five-year maximum levels in the US Midwest, a swath of coal and nuclear power plant retirements look to boost gas’ share of generation winter over Continue Reading
U.K. Plans to Create Offshore Grid to Connect Wind Farms
National Grid Plc outlined a plan for an offshore grid that will link new wind parks and interconnectors, saving consumers 6 billion pounds ($7.7 billion) by 2050. The network operator’s Continue Reading
Major Utility Compares Green Power Cost Scenarios
Duke Energy Corp., the nation’s largest electric utility, says it can cut greenhouse gas emissions more than 70% in the next 15 years in North and South Carolina — but Continue Reading
Power out for about 360,000 due to Laura; service restoration may take weeks
About 360,000 power customers remained without electricity in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas on Aug. 31 in the wake of the cyclone Laura, diminishing power demand, and Entergy is warning its Continue Reading