On March 23rd, 2026 with 338 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases...
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On March 14th, 2026 with 71 comments
It's America's first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR — enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind...
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On March 14th, 2026 with 120 comments
Plug-in (or "balcony") solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a...
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On March 12th, 2026 with 114 comments
Asian governments are implementing emergency measures like four-day workweeks and work-from-home mandates to cope with a fuel shortage triggered by the Iran...
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On January 17th, 2026 with 76 comments
Friday a federal judge "cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project." But a U.S. federal judge also ruled...
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On January 5th, 2026 with 65 comments
America's tech companies and data center developers "are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near...
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On December 8th, 2025 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters...
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On December 4th, 2025 with 58 comments
A London Assembly report warns that surging demand from "energy-hungry" data centers is straining the electricity grid and delaying new housing developments....
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On November 25th, 2025 with 54 comments
The UK is seeking to fast-track new atomic development to meet soaring energy demands driven by AI and electrification. According to a new report published by...
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On November 23rd, 2025 with 222 comments
With some animated graphics, CNN "reimagined" what three of America's busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for "a glimpse...
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On November 16th, 2025 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
[T]he computing power of crypto mining generates a lot of
heat, most which just ends up vented into the air....
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On November 16th, 2025 with 71 comments
Residential utility bills in America "rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period in the previous year," reports CNBC, citing...
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On November 15th, 2025 with 130 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you're waiting for the cable...
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On November 2nd, 2025 with 70 comments
"Amazon has deployed Rivian's electric delivery vans in Canada for the first time," reports CleanTechnica, with 50 now deployed in the Vancouver area.
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On September 21st, 2025 with 39 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from ZME Science
Researchers from the University of Turku, in collaboration with Aalto University and...
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On September 11th, 2025 with 46 comments
Wind and solar power generated more than a third of Brazil's electricity in August, the first month on record the two renewable sources have crossed that...
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On August 23rd, 2025 with 103 comments
"Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025..." reports Electrek, citing new...
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On August 17th, 2025 with 247 comments
EV sales are up 27% for the first seven months of 2025 — for the world. But in America "For the first half of 2025, EV registrations rose 7% to 620,642,...
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On July 18th, 2025 with 28 comments
India has achieved 50% of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources -- five years ahead of its 2030 target under the Paris Agreement,...
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On June 22nd, 2025 with 162 comments
U.S. consumers "rank problems with public electric vehicle charging and the time it takes to recharge as their top two reasons for rejecting electric...
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On June 21st, 2025 with 160 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
Over the past three years, companies have invested tens of billions of dollars toward making...
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On June 10th, 2025 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on...
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On June 8th, 2025 with 76 comments
The U.K. electricity grid "was built to deliver power generated by coal and gas plants near the country's major cities and towns," reports the BBC, "and...
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On June 7th, 2025 with 112 comments
Britain is moving toward major nuclear power commitments after years of delays, as government officials acknowledge they can no longer postpone critical energy...
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On April 17th, 2025 with 188 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: In its most aggressive attack against offshore wind yet, the Trump administration halted the $5 billion...
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On March 11th, 2025 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There's a power crunch looming as AI and cloud providers ramp up data center construction. But a new...
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On February 8th, 2025 with 288 comments
Thursday the White House "moved to halt a $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle charging stations," reports Politico, "by instructing states not to...
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On January 25th, 2025 with 127 comments
"For years, renewable energy proponents have hoped to build a U.S. electric grid powered by wind, solar, geothermal and — to a lesser extent —...
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On January 2nd, 2025 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Constellation Energy has been awarded a record $1 billion in contracts to supply nuclear power to the U.S....
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On December 8th, 2024 with 104 comments
This week a Florida-based Bitcoin-tech company named MARA Holdings announced it had bought a 114-megawatt Texas wind farm, reports Chron.com, "and will...
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