Energy & Green Tech
Extreme weather driven by climate change is making power outages more commonplace even as the need for electricity-dependent home health equipment grows. In this context, battery storage can help protect medically vulnerable ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Some 2.7 million households in Texas were still without power as of Wednesday morning in the wake of extremely cold weather buffeting the region.
Feb 18, 2021
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Internet
About one in four people in the United States lives in an area served by cellular phone towers at risk of an outage caused by wildfires, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Oct 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
California on Friday ordered rolling power outages for the first time since 2011 as a statewide heat wave strained its electrical system.
Aug 15, 2020
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Engineering
In a worldwide first that could jumpstart a clean energy economy built around the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen fuel cells have powered a row of datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, Microsoft announced ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
In a new study, researchers from Texas A&M University and industry have designed a smart technology that can help utility companies better serve communities affected by blackouts. The researchers said their single device ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The decline in economic activity precipitated by the spread of COVID-19 and ensuing lockdown in South Africa is also affecting the country's electricity supply dynamics. The power outages that were disrupting the economy ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The 2019/20 Australian bushfire season, known as the black summer, changed how remote communities get electricity. But can we change the entire nation's energy use?
Apr 16, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Since late last year South Africans have, once again, been subjected to power cuts by the power utility, Eskom. The need for what's called loadshedding—planned power outages—led to the recent resignation of Eskom's chairperson ...
Jan 22, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sources, according to new research from the McCombs School of Business ...
Dec 12, 2019
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