By 2035 America needs a 43% increase in its power-transmitting capacity, according to an analysis by the REPEAT project.

But NPR reports there’s another way to quickly improve capacity without building new transmission lines:

That’s where the laser …

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft “disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities” (like plants for power generation, factory automation, energy automat…

Soon, all GM EV’s on the Ultium platform will come equipped with bidirectional charging capabilities. Electrek reports: According to a release from GM this morning, the automaker has decided to roll out V2H capabilities to all of its incoming EV models…

The Financial Times reports:

U.S. government scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time, a result that is set to fuel optimism that progress is being made towards the dream of limitless, zero-carbon power… “In …

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:

A judge has ordered criminal charges dropped against the final executive accused of lying about problems building two nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were abandoned without gene…

Long-time Slashdot reader KindMind shares a report from The Register: Researchers at MIT claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered carbon black — a crystalline form of the element. The m…

A ban on most kinds of traditional bulbs renews a cultural squabble between regulatory efforts to curb energy consumption and the very American impulse to do whatever one wants in one’s domicile. The New York Times: The switchboard at Lightbulbs.com, a…

“The man behind the race to replace gasoline-fueled cars with electric ones is worried about having enough juice,” writes the Wall Street Journal:

In recent days he has reiterated those concerns, predicting U.S. consumption of electricity, driven in p…

This week America’s Department of Energy announced $100 million to support states, local governments, and public utilities “in purchasing products derived from converted carbon emissions.”
The hope is to jumpstart the creation of a market for “environ…

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: A specially illustrated BBC story created by artist/writer Ben Platts-Mills tells the remarkable story of how a dangerous radioactive apparatus in the Manhattan Project killed a scientist in 1946. “Less than a y…