(Bloomberg) — The states hit hardest by blackouts in last week’s winter storm have significantly increased reliance on heating homes with electricity over the last decade, putting more strain on...
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Constant Blackouts Have Ruined Cryptocurrency Mining Investments in Cuba – Mining Bitcoin News
Several small investors have manifested that the constant blackouts in several parts of Cuba have made cryptocurrency mining unsustainable, leaving them unable to operate their rigs. The blackouts als...
Solana (SOL) holders losing trust after network blackouts. Could Orbeon Protocol (ORBN) be the game changer?
Advertisement     It is a sad but undeniable fact of life that wherever something of value exists, someone somewhere will try to steal, copy, or sabotage it. The crypt...
New England Risks Winter Blackouts as Gas Supplies Tighten
Listen to article (2 minutes) New England power producers are preparing for potential strain on the grid this winter as a surge in natural-gas demand abroad threatens to reduce supplies they need to g...
Solar Panels Don’t Power Your Home and Other Insights From an Energy CEO
Text size Generac stock is down 51% year to date. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Powering a home is getting more complicated as outages rise and options—such as solar panels, generators, and batteries—pro...
Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.
Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...
Ukraine Blames Russia For Power Blackouts As Ukrainian Troops Retake Territory
Topline Ukrainian officials on Sunday accused Russia of causing electric blackouts across much of eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine’s military touts the recapture of critical territory in formerly Russian-o...
California avoids widespread rolling blackouts as heat strains grid
A temperature sign at an El Dorado Savings Bank during a heatwave in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images California has avoided ordering rol...
California Raises Energy Alert—Warning Of Rolling Blackouts Due To Historic Heat Wave
Topline California’s electrical grid operator issued an urgent warning asking residents to conserve energy Tuesday, raising its energy alert status to its highest level before moving to rolling ...
EU’s Energy Plan Beats Inaction
A perfect storm has hit European energy markets, pushing leaders to intervene. It isn’t all bad news for investors. The confluence of extreme summer heat, dwindling Russian gas deliveries, unplanned o...
In Big Win For Nuclear, California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon
Thanks to today’s passage of SB 846 by the California legislature, Diablo Canyon Power Plant will … [+] continue operating until at last 2030. Robert Bryce Sometimes facts and rationality ...
In Summer Of Record Heat, U.S. Power Grid Is Holding Up–So Far
High voltage transmission towers in Houston, Texas Getty Images Despite earlier warnings from grid operators and power grid reliability experts, this summer’s unprecedented heat waves have not caused ...
How Generac Thrives Amid Grid Blackouts And Natural Disasters
Unsatisfied with an 80% market share in the home generator business, CEO Aaron Jagdfeld has big ideas for home microgrids. In 2008, things were looking grim for Generac. The 49-year-old firm, which ma...
Why Everyone Is Talking About The Texas Electric Grid
AUSTIN, TX – JUNE 08: Texas State Senator Charles Schwertner speaks during a press conference where … [+] Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 at the Capitol on June 8, 2021 in...
Millions Of Texans Could Lose Power In Rolling Blackouts Amid Record Heat
Topline Texas’ power grid operator is asking Texans to conserve power Monday amid a record-breaking heat wave that has led to unprecedented amounts of energy demand, warning that rolling blackouts are...
Blackouts, Major Construction Delays Test U.S. Grid
Heatwaves are challenging the grid. getty The future for U.S. electric utilities is under a dark cloud — a cloud generated as much by their century-plus of success as anything else. The nation has com...
Elon Musk’s Tesla and the program against blackouts
Tesla, Elon Musk’s company, has partnered with California power company PG&E to launch a new program against blackouts using Powerwalls. There’s more in the Tesla household, as some employees who...
Energy Policy Failures May Lead To Summer Blackouts
This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why we are in for serious power outages this summer. The problem isn’t that we’ll be experiencing an unforeseeable surge in electricity; it’s that bad government ...
Hunger and Blackouts Are Just the Start of an Emerging Economy Crisis
(Bloomberg) — A barrage of shocks is building that’s unlike anything emerging markets have had to confront since the 1990s, when a series of rolling crises sank economies and toppled governments...
ERCOT Market Design, Subsidies For Renewables, ‘Fails To Adequately Pay For Reliable’ Generation
A pedestrian walks through the snow in McKinney, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. … [+] Photographer: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Many reports have been published a...
What’s Good For Generac Is Bad For America
The declining reliability of the U.S. electric grid has resulted in a surge in sales of home … [+] generators. This photo, from 2006, shows John Kelly of Kelly Generators with two examples of Ge...
Kazakhstan Powers Down Bitcoin Miners as Blackouts Roil Central Asia
Don’t expect Kazakhstan Bitcoin miners to be earning any BTC during the final week of January. The state-run Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) confirmed to Bloomberg that ele...