Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Artificial intelligence is driving up demand for electricity—the only question is how ...

A virtual power plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, small- to medium-scale power generating units, flexible power consumers, and storage systems that are aggregated and operated as a single ...

How many data centers will be built – and how much electricity they’ll need – is uncertain. Being prepared costs money, but ...

Wait times for the hulking turbines needed to turn natural gas into electricity have doubled in the past year as companies scramble to build data centers for A.I. The blades of a giant metal turbine, ...

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, ...

If what happened on July 29 in California is any indication of the future of the power grid, then there is reason for optimism. Let’s look at it from the perspective of Tom Weldon, who owns a house on ...

SAPPORO, Japan — Ocean winds whip across the beaches, hillsides and sprawling plains of Hokkaido. There’s enough wind energy here for Japan’s northernmost island to power itself and export clean ...

After losing a five-year battle with state officials, the owners of an aging Hudson Valley power plant finally gave up last year on their plans to modernize the facility. The Department of ...

About a dozen miles south of Colorado Springs, a smokestack rises from a cluster of boxy beige buildings, flanked by a giant mound of coal and a web of metal power lines. Built in 1980, the Ray D.

The Trump administration announced plans to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions and other airborne pollutants from the nation's fossil fuel-fired power plants. The proposal is part of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Demolition of smokestacks in coal-fired San Juan Generating ...