The West Burton A coal power plants will be fired up – Christopher Drabble / Alamy Stock Photo Coal power will help keep the lights on across Britain tonight as the National Grid fired up back-u...
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Neo-Nazi Leader Arrested In Alleged Plot To Attack Power Plants
Topline Federal authorities have arrested and charged two people with allegedly conspiring to destroy energy facilities in a plot prosecutors say was racially motivated, following a string of apparent...
Report Finds That Replacing Coal Plants With Renewables Saves A Lot Of Money
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images Energy policy think tank Ene...
99% Of U.S. Coal Plants Are More Expensive Than New Renewables. A Coal-To-Clean Transition Is Worth $589 Billion, Mostly In Red States
Nevada’s last coal plant is scheduled to close in 2025 after 40 years of service due to rising operation costs. The closure will dramatically improve air quality, yet the economic impact will be borne...
Covert Israeli Operations Against Iranian Missiles And Drone Plants Might Help Ukraine
Israel is the prime suspect behind the suspected drone attack on Saturday against a military target near the central Iranian city of Isfahan. The attack occurred a little over a day after an Israeli o...
California Cannabis Growers Adopts Blockchain to Track Plants
A California-based cannabis seed bank has turned to blockchain technology and smart contracts to verify the efficacy of its medicinal plants. Mendocino Clone Company (MCC), a cannabis nursery, has tur...
Greener Gas Plants, Glass Onion’s Hydrogen Goof And The High Cost Of Disasters
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. This combined cycle gas plant produces po...
Russia Plans to Establish New Power Plants Amid Mining Surge
22 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News People are consuming more power, which might strain the system’s infrastructure. Republic of Khakassia and the Irkutsk Oblast grids are under the most strain ...
Amid High Energy Demand From Miners, Russia Mulls Building New Power Plants in Siberia – Mining Bitcoin News
Growing electricity consumption in the crypto mining sector may require the construction of new power generation facilities in Siberia, the energy minister of Russia has acknowledged. Demand continues...
Oil Passes Natural Gas as Main Fuel for Power Plants in New England
(Bloomberg) — Oil took over from natural gas as the leading fuel for power plants in New England, a significant switch that signals how the grid is desperately trying to keep the lights on in th...
Beyond Meat Plant’s Dirty Conditions Revealed in Photos, Documents
(Bloomberg) — Photos and internal documents from a Beyond Meat Inc. plant in Pennsylvania show apparent mold, Listeria and other food-safety issues, compounding problems at a factory the company...
ASML Sees Strong Growth as Countries Race to Build Chip Plants
(Bloomberg) — ASML Holding NV gave a bullish revenue outlook citing strong demand for its machines that make advanced semiconductors and said it will buy back €12 billion ($12.2 billion) of its ...
The Hydrogen Economy Will Soon Be Ready For Take Off, Including Planes And Power Plants
LISBON, PORTUGAL – JULY 22: TAP Air Portugal Airbus A321Neo, first flight using SAF – Sustainable … [+] Aviation Fuel, takes off to Ponta Delgada, Azores, on the day it was signed th...
Elon Musk’s Personal Mouthpiece, Raging Arctic Wildfires—And A Simple Emissions Solution For Coal Plants
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images When you ...
This Material Could Reduce CO2 From Coal Plants After Record Emissions Last Year, Study Finds
Topline Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that a material called aluminum formate could be used to scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks before i...
Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta, iPhone Assembler Foxconn To Build $20 Billion Semiconductor And Display Plants In India
Anil Agarwal Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Indian natural resources conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn will jointly invest 1.54 trillion rupees (about $20 ...
Ford doubles down on EVs by closing deal on 3 new battery plants
In May of 2021, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s SK Innovation to create a joint venture for building and operating battery facilities. On July 14, ...
Germany Reopens Coal Plants Because Of Reduced Russian Energy
Topline Germany’s parliament on Friday agreed to reactivate retired coal power plants to generate electricity, decreasing their reliance on precarious Russian supplies, but potentially bringing the co...
Tesla Pauses Plants After Ending Shaky Quarter With a Production Milestone
(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. investors have a lot to parse after the July 4 holiday: a disappointing quarter of deliveries, a record month of production, and now several weeks of downtime at multipl...
Musk Calls Tesla’s Berlin, Austin Plants ‘Money Furnaces’ Amid Startup Snags
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the opening of Giga Texas in Austin on April 7, 2022. AFP via Getty Images) Tesla’s brand new plants in Germany and Texas will eventually help the electric-car maker dram...
Reckitt baby formula plants can produce 21 million bottles for U.S.
Robert Cleveland, senior vice president of nutrition for North America and Europe at Reckitt, speaks via video conference during a House Commerce Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday...
Keeping Illinois nuclear plants open saving some customers $237 a year
Byron, UNITED STATES: The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Stations running at full capacity 14 May, 2007, in Byron, Illinois. (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty Images) JEFF HAYNES | ...
Some Of Korea’s Biggest Conglomerates To Build Small-Scale Nuclear Plants In Asia
Getty Samsung and two other Korean conglomerates have signed an agreement with U.S.-based NuScale to build small-scale modular nuclear reactors, known as SMRs, in Asia as demand for clean energy grows...
Renewable Energy Plants – The New Gold Mines of the 21st Century
Last Updated on May 11, 2022 at 14:28 Experts believe new-age renewable energy plants are the gold mines of the 21 century. These offer environmental benefits, low investment risk, consistent cash flo...
New York lawmaker proposes 2 year moratorium on power plants to stop growth of crypto mining
New York has become a battleground for crypto mining after lawmaker Anna Kelles submitted a proposal to “place a two-year moratorium on reactivating fossil-fuel power plants for off-the-grid cryptocur...
Power Plants to Be Subject to Two-Year Moratorium By NY Assembly?
Back in March, the Environmental Conservation Committee of the New York State Assembly has voted to put forth a two-year moratorium bill on PoW authentication methods for blockchain crypto mining, for...
GM keeps plants running in China by asking workers to live in factory, sleep on floors
DETROIT – As the biggest city in China goes on lockdown, General Motors is taking extreme measures to keep new car production going, including asking workers to sleep on factory floors. Leaders in Sha...
Ford cuts SUV, truck production at two plants due to chip shortage
An employee works on a Ford Motor Co. Super Duty Truck engine at the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 30, 2016. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ford Motor is once agai...
Brookfield Spurned in $14 Billion Plan to Close Coal Plants
(Bloomberg) — Australian utility AGL Energy Ltd. rejected a multibillion-dollar takeover bid from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and technology billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, who plan to acc...
Iran Allows Renewable Power Plants to Supply Crypto Miners With Electricity – Coinotizia
Authorities in Iran have decided to permit power generation plants using renewable sources to sell electricity to licensed cryptocurrency miners. The move comes after the government asked mining compa...