A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday after an unexplained failure in the neighboring countries’ interconnected power grid. Authorities were working frantically to restore power, but by mid-afternoon nearly half of Argentina’s 44 million people were still in the dark.
Read moreThe California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved PG&E’s expansive and costly wildfire prevention plan at its Thursday meeting, along with a set of guidelines to allow utilities to shut off power when fire risk is high.
Read moreFord Motors revealed details of its long-awaited restructuring plan Monday as it prepared for a future of electric and autonomous vehicles by parting ways with 7,000 white-collar workers worldwide, about 10% of its global salaried workforce.
Read moreEngineers at the University of California, San Diego, have designed a wearable patch that offers customizable heating and cooling capabilities in virtually any environment.
Read moreItalian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has taken aim at a Vatican cardinal who climbed into a utility manhole to restore electricity to squatters in a state-owned building, pitting far-right Italian politics against Pope Francis’ humanitarian agenda.
Read moreNew York has the right to condition access to its utility infrastructure on so-called energy service companies following the rules, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court revived negligence claims Monday in a case where a fisherman was killed as state utility workers attempted to raise a downed power line in the Tennessee River.
Read moreIt took just a matter of seconds for two 500-foot cooling towers from Massachusetts’ last coal-fired power plant to be reduced to rubble over the weekend.
Read moreWashington state appears one step closer to a carbon neutral electricity grid.
Read moreAn increase in costs for gasoline, electricity and housing fueled a 0.4% surge in U.S. consumer prices last month, the biggest jump in 14 months.
Read moreIn a symbolic first, electric cars outsold fossil fuel-powered ones in Norway last month.
Read moreSounding the death knell for one of the world’s last mechanical clocks, New York’s highest court signed off Thursday on a plan to electrify a timepiece in the former headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Co.
Read moreKeeping in mind local and state mandates to combat climate change, San Diego city and county officials approved measures to explore entering the clean energy market as providers.
Read moreWith U.S. oil production on the upswing, the Senate focused Tuesday on how to do the same with minerals while also improving electric-battery technology to secure America’s role in the future energy industry.
Read moreBROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) – Criticizing the week-long management of a power outage at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, defense attorneys brought
Read moreElectricity supplier Entergy New Orleans claims in court that a Virginia-based public relations firm hired actors instead of recruiting supporters to speak at public meetings in favor of a proposed power plant, spurring a costly investigation into whether the utility knew its backers were paid.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice scolded Slovakia on Thursday for imposing a charge on one of its own power companies to export electricity to other member states.
Read moreSouth Africa’s troubled power utility on Tuesday implemented power cuts nationwide, intensifying concern about growth in one of Africa’s biggest economies even as the country announced it has emerged from recession.
Read moreA team of engineers developed a first-of-its-kind silent, lightweight plane that flies without any moving parts like propellers or fans.
Read moreGerman automaker Volkswagen says it will invest $50 billion to develop autonomous and electric cars and expand the appeal of battery-powered vehicles by selling its upcoming I.D. compact for about what a diesel-powered Golf costs.
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