Current methods of capturing and releasing carbon are expensive and so energy-intensive they often require, counterproductively, the use of fossil fuels. Taking inspiration from plants, researchers ...

Nathan Ough, the co-founder of VoltaGrid, is aiming to build an electricity empire.

Rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and limiting energy consumption to tackle climate change is “a strategy doomed to fail” ...

Georgia Power, which expects a boom in power demand from data centers, says it needs to get a lot more electricity online — ...

The price of ensuring adequate electricity supply across much of the central U.S. during the summer months soared twentyfold as coal retirements, power plant capacity losses and the effect of ...

Installation of renewable energy worldwide hit a record high last year, with more than 90 percent of all new electricity brought online coming from the sun, wind, or other clean sources.

Planners may think that fossil fuels—traditionally ... a constant and reliable power supply. Previously, that could only have come from, say, a coal or hydro plant. But now, a solar farm can ...

Fred Henderson doesn’t expect to live long enough to see the completion of Colorado’s first geothermal power plant ... between geothermal and fossil fuels. Both require someone to drill ...

If the world were divided into net fossil fuel importers and exporters ... compared to the import cost of burning gas in a power plant. Importing one gigawatt of solar panels costs $100 million ...

In the 2000s, California law set emissions limits for fossil fuel power plants, and in the 2010s, LA power agency officials committed to eventually ending the use of coal power altogether.

That’s because of the possibility of data centres helping to extend the life of existing coal and gas plants ... of additional computing-driven fossil fuel power use, the report said.