Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware Networks19 Apr 2024 | 66
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 113
UK awards £1.73M to AI projects to advance net zero goals Great! Just ignore the energy needed to train them, process queries, keep the lights on in datacenters ... AI + ML20 Mar 2024 | 35
Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery 2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland Science08 Feb 2024 | 87
US starts 'emergency' checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands Up until now watchdogs say they've just been guesstimating consumption Public Sector02 Feb 2024 | 81
Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think Feature They're just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg Public Sector01 Feb 2024 | 114
US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050 Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that Public Sector19 Jan 2024 | 53
White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund Now that's the kind of current affairs we're into Public Sector16 Nov 2023 | 18
Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 17
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 27
Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50% Offbeat27 Oct 2023 | 345
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far... Public Sector23 Oct 2023 | 354
Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid Spending needs to double to $600B by 2030 if we want to stay within 2°C warming Science18 Oct 2023 | 91
Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial Perfect antidote to range anxiety ... if it works and they can sort compatibility Personal Tech17 Oct 2023 | 32
Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did Software13 Oct 2023 | 67
AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland' Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 14
The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible Science27 Sep 2023 | 87
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, maybe An electrically charged spring in your step Science07 Aug 2023 | 8
MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Science02 Aug 2023 | 98
First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online Westinghouse's 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor Science01 Aug 2023 | 32
SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard Another win for Musk: Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo have already announced plans to dump CCS Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 30
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost? Science26 Jun 2023 | 17
Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions The Reg in Space07 Jun 2023 | 43
On the bright side, solar investment finally set to surpass oil spending But fossil fuels won't go down without a fight Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week25 May 2023 | 8
Offshore wind power redesign key to adoption, says Irish firm Add balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 26
Boffins interrogate sodium ion battery stability mystery The mechanism still isn't completely understood, but research could help resolve SIB lifespan problems Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills Digi-dollars are toxic in many ways and the administration wants the sector to clean up its act Software04 May 2023 | 71
Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going? There's a cost, and operators are worried it will fall on them Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week20 Apr 2023 | 58
Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid Move over, magic crystals – electric syrup is here Science29 Mar 2023 | 28
Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity 'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos' Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint Energy Efficient Datacenters20 Mar 2023 | 18
Atomic energy body proposes fusion framework to manage British energy grids When you need something reliable that won't drop out of support, open is the way to go Software06 Mar 2023 | 96
Wind, solar power outstrip fossil fuel generation for EU Coal cooked, gas dissipating as renewables power up Science02 Feb 2023 | 141
Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now Science30 Jan 2023 | 121
Have we hit a climate tipping point? Green power attracts big money As much cash went into low-carbon as fossil fuels last year, apparently Systems27 Jan 2023 | 19
Uncle Sam greenlights first commercial nuclear small modular reactor design NuScale plants could begin construction as soon as February 21, when new rule goes into effect Science24 Jan 2023 | 38
Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses Analysis 4,000km extension cords are hard to build On-Prem22 Jan 2023 | 64
Plugging end-of-life EV batteries into the grid could ease renewables transition Study says this would give old power units years of useful life once unsuitable for cars Science18 Jan 2023 | 33
Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trial On-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 52
Next-gen Qi2 wireless charging spec seeded by Apple CES iBiz's MagSafe charging tech forms the foundation of the Qi2 movement Personal Tech05 Jan 2023 | 26
Bill Gates' nuclear power plant stalled by Russian fuel holdup Putin it into operation will take a while at this rate Science16 Dec 2022 | 94
Energy being expensive and trickier to source is good news ... for renewables Green tech will be largest power source by 2025, says IEA, but even accelerated rollouts might not stave off disaster Science07 Dec 2022 | 38
Barge off: Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites in US, France 7.5 megawatt digs on the murky waters of Marseille and Los Angeles On-Prem07 Dec 2022 | 15
US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers Science05 Dec 2022 | 22
Startup raises $30 million for wireless power delivery system Not the first company in the game to chase cable-free charging dragon Networks05 Dec 2022 | 39
UK cuts China from Sizewell nuclear project, takes joint stake Move comes as National Grid decides not to fire up blackout prevention scheme Science30 Nov 2022 | 176
Massive energy storage system goes online in UK 196MWh installation has capacity to power 300,000 homes for two hours Systems24 Nov 2022 | 169
Biden administration earmarks $13b to modernize electric grid We need more transmission capacity, and we needed it yesterday Networks21 Nov 2022 | 48
US offshore oil and gas installation at 'increasing' risk of cyberattack GAO says 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster will look like a walk in the park Cyber-crime21 Nov 2022 | 8
Shocker: EV charging infrastructure is seriously insecure What did we learn from the IoT days? Apparently nothing. Security15 Nov 2022 | 42
Google taps up Softbank solar plants for Dallas datacenter 900MW coming web giant's way ... in 2024 On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |
AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow On-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 28
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists Science20 Oct 2022 | 33
UK government in talks with datacenter operators over blackouts Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators On-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 56
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO On-Prem14 Oct 2022 | 28
Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential 1.41GW, in fact – enough to power around one million homes Science13 Oct 2022 | 100
Utility security is so bad, US DoE offers rate cuts to improve it New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 7
Wind, solar fulfill 10% of global electricity demand for first time Curb your enthusiasm – coal-fired power went up too Science29 Sep 2022 | 54
Japan taps industry to build safer, more secure nuclear energy future Project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries marks shift in policy since Fukushima disaster over a decade ago Science29 Sep 2022 | 30
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030 It'll reduce emissions a bunch, but stress the grid even more Science26 Sep 2022 | 124