The recent deadly flood disaster in Nepal also damaged 13 hydropower projects, revealing the risk to hydropower from glacial retreat in high mountain.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the economics of Tesla’s Cybercab and Mazama Energy’s CEO on the benefits of super-hot-rock geothermal energy
Data centers are expanding near more communities. Here’s what research says about potential health, environmental, quality-of-life risks and what still is not clear.
Metris Energy, an AI-native platform for managing energy assets, has raised $5 millionin a seed round led by PT1 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, AENU and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from Plug …
Gulf sovereign wealth funds are pouring billions into copper, lithium, and rare-earth mines worldwide—and Washington is treating them as partners and a China buffer.
Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly “killing all humans,” our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack – and the risk is growing. “We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at […]
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]
Using a power station for backup is ideal, but not with these appliances.
LF Energy, a Linux Foundation project dedicated to building the digital foundation for energy together, in collaboration with LF Research, today released The Open Source Value Proposition for the Ener…
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival of domestic manufacturing drive up power demand. The EPA’s proposal today is a […]