“A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area’s deadly Eaton Fire,” writes Bloomberg, describing California’s abandoned power lines as “a fire risk hiding in plain sight.”

[Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because th…

New power plants burning natural gas are being built all across America, reports the Washington Post, calling it a gas boom “driven in large part by AI.”

They blame tech companies like Microsoft and Meta — which “looked to gas amid a shortage o…

Remember that battery plant fire last month in Moss Landing, California? Tuesday night local firefighters “determined that a group of lithium batteries in an area that had previously burned during the January 16 fire had smoldered and reignited,” repor…

The Washington Post looks at a new kind of battery that “could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say.”

If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments, less fire risk and more years of us…

The General Services Administration (GSA) is shutting down its nationwide electric vehicle (EV) chargers, deeming them “not mission critical.” The U.S. government agency also plans to offload newly purchased EVs, reversing initiatives from the Biden ad…

Batteries used to store power produced by renewables are becoming cheap enough to make developers abandon scores of projects for gas-fired generation worldwide. Reuters reports: The long-term economics of gas-fired plants, used in Europe and some parts…

Simon Jack reports via the BBC: The price paid to generate electricity by offshore wind farms is set to rise by more than 50% as the government tries to entice energy firms to invest. Its comes after an auction for offshore wind projects failed to attr…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: If you’ve only ever used standard Qi chargers with devices that don’t have their own schemes, the Wireless Power Consortium’s announcement today of the first Qi 2.0 devices being ready to launch be…

According to Nikkei Asia (paywalled), Indonesia has officially launched Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar plant. It covers an area of over 250 hectares (2.5 km^2) and should be able to produce enough renewable energy to power 50,000 homes. Intere…

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: [O]n Wednesday, the company and utility planning to build the first small, modular nuclear plant in the U.S. announced it was cancelling the project. The U.S. has approved a single design for a small, modular n…