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Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid...

Photo by Ansalmo Juvaga By Jo Nova Seen on X Spare a thought for the people of Cuba The situation went from awful to something much worse. They ran out of working electrical plants ten days ago, and endured blackouts lasting...

Vague warnings are not good enough. It is time for all levels of Government to plan for blackouts.

The residents of Puerto Rico have found themselves engulfed in darkness after power supply systems were destroyed by Hurricane Fiona. The Category 4 hurricane has caused 3.1 million residents left in darkness. By Wednesday,...

Houston Texas, Feb 2021. Image by Fish & Trips Texas toyed with cascading crises The Green Experiment could have gone so much worse. Here’s a man who was a gas industry executive involved in a near miss in New England...

Even if the Texas situation resolves tomorrow the anger will burn for months A few hours ago, about one quarter of Texas still didn’t have power...

Fragile grids Over a million people lost power in the UK yesterday thanks to the sudden outage of a gas and a wind plant. Some of the countries biggest railway stations were inoperable.  Passengers were stuck on trains for...

A new study shows extreme weather events and increasing usage of unconventional fossil fuels will leave national energy grids unable to keep up with increasing demands for energy, Motherboard reports...

As the 200 square mile 'Rim Fire' continues to grow across Northern California and into Yosemite National Park, Governor Jerry Brown has taken the unusual step of declaring a State of Emergency for the City and County of...

As the 200 square mile 'Rim Fire' continues to grow across Northern California and into Yosemite National Park, Governor Jerry Brown has taken the unusual step of declaring a State of Emergency for the City and County of...

India suffered one of its worst blackouts in a decade this Monday morning when high demand for electricity cut off power to seven northern states and over 360 million people.  India’s electricity demand during the...

Though the Motion Picture Association of America called yesterday’s protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) an “irresponsible” publicity “stunt”, the numbers...

You may already know this, but our power grid system has been largely left alone for half a century. We’re using inefficient grid technology to try to thread power across our country and in the process are losing precious...