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Two new electricity interconnectors planned for UK

LONDON - Ofgem has opened bids to build two electricity interconnectors between the UK and continental Europe.

The energy regulator said…

Manitoba Hydro applying for 5 per cent interim rate increase

Consumers Coalition wants Manitoba Hydro?s proposed rate increase rejected

WINNIPEG - The Consumers Coalition is urging the Public Utilities Board (PUB) to reject Manitoba Hydro’s current interim rate increase…

Opinion | Why Electric Mail Trucks Are the Way of the Future

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service faces serious challenges, with billions of dollars in annual losses and total mail volume…

Fact check: Claim on electric car charging efficiency gets some math wrong

NEW YORK - The claim: Average electric car requires equivalent of 85 pounds of coal or six barrels of oil…

No time to be silent on NZ's electricity future

AUKLAND - The Electricity Authority has released a document outlining a plan to achieve the Government’s goal of more than…

Europe's Thirst for Electricity Spurs Nordic Grid Blockade

STOCKHOLM - A spat over electricity supplies is heating up in northern Europe. Sweden is blocking Norway from using its…

Electricity in Spain is 682.65% more expensive than the same day in 2020

MADRID - Electricity in Spain's wholesale market will rise in price once more. Once again, it will set a historical record…

SEA To Convert 10,000 US School Buses To Electricity

WASHINGTON - Converting a Porsche 356C to electric power is a challenge. There’s precious little room for batteries, converters, and…

Survivors of deadly tornadoes may go weeks without heat, water, electricity, Kentucky officials say

DAWSON SPRINGS, KY - Residents of Kentucky counties where tornadoes killed several dozen people could be without heat, water or…

Texas Weighs Electricity Market Reforms To Avoid Blackouts

HOUSTON - The Public Utility Commission of Texas is discussing major reforms to the state’s electricity market with the purpose…

Can Canada actually produce enough clean electricity to power a net-zero grid by 2050?

TORONTO - By Merran Smith and Mark Zacharias

Canada is an electricity heavyweight. In addition to being the world’s sixth-largest electricity…

5 ways Texas can improve electricity reliability and save our economy

DALLAS - The blackouts in February shined a light on the fragile infrastructure that supports modern life. More and more,…

A new approach finds materials that can turn waste heat into electricity

LONDON - The need to transition to clean energy is apparent, urgent and inescapable. We must limit Earth’s rising temperature…

BC Hydro Expects To See Electricity Usage Rise This Holiday Season

VANCOUVER - BC Hydro data showed residential electricity load in the Cariboo and throughout the province dropped on Christmas Day…

Demand for electricity in Yukon hits record high

WHITEHORSE - A new record for electricity demand has been set in Yukon. The territory recorded a peak of 104.42…

What the U.S. can learn from the U.K. about wind power

GLASGOW - As President Joe Biden’s administration puts its muscle behind wind power with plans to develop large-scale wind farms…

Modular nuclear reactors a 'long shot' worth studying, says Yukon gov't

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government is looking for ways to reduce the territory's emissions, and wondering if nuclear power is…

Electricity exports to New York from Quebec will happen as early as 2025: Hydro-Quebec

MONTREAL - Hydro-Quebec announced Thursday it has chosen the route for the Hertel-New York interconnection line, which will begin construction…

Major U.S. utilities spending more on electricity delivery, less on power production

WASHINGTON - Over the past decade, major utilities in the United States have been spending more on delivering electricity to…

Nova Scotia Power increases use of biomass for generating electricity

HALIFAX - A boiler owned by Nova Scotia Power on the grounds of the Port Hawkesbury paper plant is burning…

Pennsylvania residents could see electricity prices rise as much as 50 percent this winter

PITTSBURG - Energy costs for electric customers are going up by as much as 50% across Pennsylvania next week, the…

Duke Energy seeks changes in how solar owners are paid for electricity

CHARLOTTE - Duke Energy has proposed new rules for how owners of rooftop solar panels are paid for electricity they…

Electric vehicle owners can get paid to sell electricity back to the grid

TORONTO - Electric vehicle owners in Ontario may one day be able to use the electricity in their EVs instead…

The biggest problem facing the U.S. electric grid isn't demand. It's climate change

NEW YORK - The power grid in the U.S. is aging and already struggling to meet current demand. It faces…

Nevada to Power Clean Vehicles with Clean Electricity

WASHINGTON - The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved a $100 million program that will deploy charging stations for electric…

Electrifying: New cement makes concrete generate electricity

SEOUL - Engineers from South Korea have invented a cement-based composite that can be used in concrete to make structures…

The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move

STOCKHOLM - Known as "sea dragons" or "tidal kites", they look like aircraft, but these are in fact high-tech tidal…

"Kill the viability": big batteries to lose out from electricity grid rule change

MELBOURNE - Tesla, Snowy Hydro and other big suppliers of storage capacity on Australia’s main electricity grid warn proposed rule…

Ontario's five largest electricity providers join together to warn of holiday scams

TORONTO - Ontario’s five largest electricity utilities have come together to warn the public about ongoing scams concerning fake phone…

Emissions rise 2% in Australia amid increased pollution from electricity and transport

MELBOURNE - Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in the June quarter by about 2% as pollution from the electricity sector…

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