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…

The Illinois Senate has approved a plan to allow small modular reactors in the state, lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new nuclear power installments. Proponents say the plan will ensure the state can meet its carbon-free power production promise by…

The state of Maine is “poised to vote on an unprecedented plan to rid themselves of the state’s two largest electric utilities and start with a clean slate,” reports the Associated Press:

The proposed takeover of two investor-owned utilities that dist…

Smartphones and electric cars are both powered by lithium-ion batteries, notes the Economist. These “Li-ion” batteries “form the guts of a growing number of grid-storage systems that smooth the flow of electricity from wind and solar power stations. Wi…

Tuesday Orsted cancelled two wind farms near New Jersey that would’ve generated about 2.2 gigawatts of energy. But the same day America’s Interior Department approved plans to install up to 176 wind turbines off the coast of Virginia with an estimated …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There’s plenty of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about electric cars and the potential risk of battery fires, but the regular old 12 V battery is responsible for Toyota issuing a recall for more than…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Pennsylvania cannot enforce a regulation to make power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, a state court ruled Wednesday, dealing another setback to the cent…

Orsted, a Danish offshore wind company, canceled its plans to build two wind farms off the coast of New Jersey — “a blow to the state’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the latest shakeout in the U.S. wind industry,” reports the New York Ti…