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TESLA, AUSTRALIA TO TURN 50,000 HOMES INTO POWER GENERATORS
More than 60 percent of electricity generation in Australia is from coal, with 14 percent from renewables, according to government data published in 2016... READ MORE›
AFTER WASHINGTON SNUB BEST BET FOR COAL BAILOUT IS IN RUST BELT
The proposal from the regional power grid, PJM Interconnection LLC, was formally introduced in November... READ MORE›
CHINA ON TRACK TO LEAD IN RENEWABLES AS US RETREATS, REPORT SAYS
IEEFA report says China will dominate international investment in renewable technology over the next several decades... READ MORE›
U.S. ENERGY WATCHDOG REJECTS TRUMP PLAN TO SUBSIDIZE COAL, NUCLEAR SECTORS
The U.S. energy watchdog terminated Monday a key proposal by President Donald Trump's administration to subsidize coal and nuclear plants, finding it neith... READ MORE›
ENERGY AGENCY REJECTS TRUMP PLAN TO PROP UP COAL AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
The industry has been besieged by multiple bankruptcies and a steady loss of market share as natural gas and renewable energy have flourished... READ MORE›
CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE: TRUMP ENERGY POLICY RILES COMPETING SECTORS
Trump and others in his administration have criticized renewable energy as expensive and dependent on government support... READ MORE›
'THIS IS NO PLACE FOR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT'
Occupying 4.2 sq km of land along the Japan Sea coast, it is the biggest nuclear power plant in the world... READ MORE›
IN GERMANY, CONSUMERS GET PAID FOR USING POWER
Several countries in Europe have experienced negative power prices, including Belgium, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland... READ MORE›
HINKLEY POINT: THE DREADFUL DEAL BEHIND THE WORLDS MOST EXPENSIVE POWER PLANT
When it is finally completed, Hinkley Point C will be the most expensive power station in the world... READ MORE›
PLANS FOR MAJOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION IN WALES WIN GREEN LIGHT
Office for Nuclear Regulation approves design for new reactor at Horizon Nuclear Power's plant at Wylfa, Anglesey... READ MORE›
TSUNAMI OF DATA COULD CONSUME ONE FIFTH OF GLOBAL ELECTRICITY BY 2025
Data centres on their own could produce 1.9 gigatonnes Gt or 3.2 percent of the global total of carbon emissions, he says... READ MORE›
CHINA'S CARBON MARKET READY - BUT WAITING
There were 87 low carbon provinces and cities, 51 low carbon industrial parks and 400 low carbon communities in China which will peak sooner, he said... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Ohio River Valley
WHY YOU'RE ABOUT TO PAY THROUGH THE NOSE FOR POWER
Right now, coal accounts for 76 per cent of our electricity generation... READ MORE›
TRUMP MAY BE GOOD FOR OIL TROUBLE FORRENEWABLES
The president-elect has promised to promote oil, natural gas and coal aggressively, and pull back on Obama administration commitments to fighting climate change... READ MORE›
SUBSIDY PLAN FOR COAL AND NUCLEAR PLANTS 'WILL COST US TAXPAYERS $10.6BN A YEAR'
Non-partisan analysis reveals the cost of energy secretary Rick Perry's proposal to give handouts to some of the country's oldest and dirtiest power plants... READ MORE›
REPUBLICANS TARGET ENVIRONMENTAL RULES PROTECTING PARKS AND LIMITING METHANE
Republican congressman Paul Gosar has put forward a separate bill that would scrap new safety and planning standards for oil and gas drilling in national parks... READ MORE›
ENERGY MINISTER TO BE GIVEN MORE CONTROL IN STATE'S $500M PLAN TO SECURE FUTURE
Photo SA wants to secure its own interests, say Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis and Premier Jay Weatherill... READ MORE›
CLEAN ENERGY IS TROUNCING OIL, GAS AND COAL IN TRUMP ERA
President Donald Trump took office vowing to revive the coal industry's fortunes. So far, the smart money has been on clean energy... READ MORE›
EXPLOSION AT EDF'S FLAMANVILLE NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHERN FRANCE
Nuclear power provides four-fifths of France's electricity generation, but much of the country's ageing nuclear fleet is expected to close in the 2030s... READ MORE›
MEGA-BATTERY PLANT TO COME ONLINE IN SHEFFIELD
Facility run by E.ON, to be followed by many more, will help UK grid cope with fast-growing amount of renewable energy... READ MORE›
ROBOT FINDS POSSIBLE MELTED NUCLEAR FUEL
An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant... READ MORE›
JAPAN, INDIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER
Energy-hungry India wants to increase nuclear power generation to support its strong economic growth... READ MORE›
JAPAN PM ABE CALLS SNAP ELECTION
Mr Abe has also strongly advocated restarting Japan's nuclear power generation plants, all of which were shut down amid public anger after the Fukushima disaster in 2011... READ MORE›
TRUMP MAY HAVE FOUND PATHS TO SAVE COAL AND HOBBLE CLEAN ENERGY
One to prop up large traditional power plants and a second to impose tariffs on solar panels... READ MORE›
S KOREA HOLDS CYBER DRILL AFTER HACK
South Korea has in the past blamed North Korea for hacks on banks, government websites and broadcasters... READ MORE›
INSIDE THE TOWN THAT LOVES DONALD TRUMP THE MOST
The Roanoke Times-Dispatch said that between 2011 and 2015, the number of coal mining jobs in Virginia fell from 4,867 to 3,033... READ MORE›
HALF OF AMERICA'S NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS SEEN AS MONEY LOSERS
Nuclear power plants are getting paid 20 to 30 a megawatt-hour for their electricity, Nicholas Steckler, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a report Wednesday... READ MORE›
ON THE BALLOT TWO CLASHING VISIONS OF HOW AMERICA WILL POWER ITS CARS HOMES
Critics have said Trump's plan to revive natural gas drilling would finish off the very coal industry he promises to restore, because the two fuels compete... READ MORE›
SCRAPPING HINKLEY FOR RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVES WILL SAVE 'TENS OF BILLIONS'
A final investment decision by EDF on the nuclear power plant's expansion is expected in May... READ MORE›
FAILING NUCLEAR POWER IS GOOD FOR COAL, BAD FOR EARTH
This third option calls for a quadrupling of 2015 U.S. nuclear power production... READ MORE›
BRITISH DOCTORS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CALL FOR RAPID COAL PHASE-OUT
Group of health bodies says tackling climate change and air pollution linked to coal would improve health and reduce NHS costs... READ MORE›
NEW BLOW FOR HINKLEY POINT CONTRACTOR EDF AFTER FRENCH SAFETY CHECKS
Safety issues force many reactors offline with warnings of power cuts across France, higher energy prices and a rise in emissions... READ MORE›
FUKUSHIMA KEEPS FIGHTING RADIOACTIVE TIDE 5 YEARS AFTER DISASTER
Mr. Ikeda's last job at Fukushima involved the destruction of used protective coveralls... READ MORE›
KENTUCKY TAKES AIM AT GROWING COYOTE PROBLEM
Kentucky already has relatively lax laws regarding hunting coyotes, which have seen their population boom since migrating across the frozen Mississippi River 35 years ago... READ MORE›
SWITCH FROM NUCLEAR TO COAL-FIRED POWER LINKED TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT IN US REGION
Study reveals fall in birth weight in areas of the Tennessee Valley which had greatest boom in coal-fired power plant activity following nuclear closures... READ MORE›
MOVE TO KEEP POWER STATION 'BACK-UP'
It is negotiating with owners of gas and coal-burning power stations... READ MORE›
COAL IS LOSING AN APPALACHIAN STRONGHOLD AS TRUMP FIGHTS BACK
At least six gas-fired plants are planned in the Ohio River Valley over the next four years... READ MORE›
COAL PLANTS USE AS MUCH WATER AS 1 BILLION PEOPLE AND CONSUMPTION SET TO DOUBLE
World Water Day research finds 44 percent of coal plants, and 45 percent of planned coal power plants, in areas of water stress... READ MORE›
UK APPROVES CHINESE-BACKED NUCLEAR PLANT, SETS TIGHTER CONTROLS
The project offers an insight into how Britain could conduct relations with the world in a post-Brexit era... READ MORE›
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS TO JOIN STRIKE
Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to join a strike over labour reforms that has already paralysed oil refineries and triggered fuel shortages... READ MORE›
BRITAIN FACES HUGE COSTS TO AVOID POWER SHORTAGES WITH ELECTRIC CAR PLAN
The cost of Hinkley Point C alone, the only nuclear power station now under construction in Britain, is estimated at 19.6 billion pounds... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA SURVEY BACKS RESTARTING CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NUCLEAR REACTORS
The suspension was one of President Moon Jae-in's key campaign pledges to allay public worry over nuclear power... READ MORE›