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News Articles: electricity

People try to board a crowded bus Monday after the subway stopped running during a power outage in Lisbon, Portugal. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

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  • Europe

A major power outage is reported in Spain and Portugal, disabling their capitals

Subway networks, phone lines, traffic lights, ATM machines and more were knocked offline in the two countries and parts of France around midday Monday.

April 28, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Sierra Club of Georgia community activist Keyanna Jones Moore leads a group of demonstrators outside Tuesday’s Georgia Public Service Commission meeting about Georgia Power’s controversial energy roadmap. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder.

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  • News

Georgia Power rolls out new long-term plan, red carpet for more data centers

A panel of Georgia Power representatives testified for eight hours at Tuesday’s Public Service Commission hearing about its controversial roadmap for meeting large-scale, data center-driven energy demands over the next decade.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Canadian and American flags fly on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, on March 8.

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  • Politics

Trump announces double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum

President Trump said he plans to put 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada in an escalation of recent trade tensions between the countries.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
A screen near the Energy Museum and Mindaugas Bridge indicates that on February 8 the Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian electricity grid to synchronise with Continental Europe, in Vilnius, Lithuania on Feb. 4, 2025.

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  • Europe

Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia

The severing of electricity ties to Russia is rich in geopolitical significance. Work on it sped up after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Freight trains encircle, and earth moving equipment dots, the massive coal yard in front of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in 2019.

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  • Environment

Georgia Power's new plan for generating electricity pushes burning coal into the state's future

Georgia's largest provider of electricity says retiring coal will have to wait due to massive energy needs from new manufacturing but mainly from internet data centers.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A banner hangs during a ceremony announcing a proposed $300 million expansion of Google's data center operations Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in Lithia Springs, Ga. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, vetoed a bill that would have suspended tax breaks for new and expanding data centers.

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  • Energy

Georgia Power says data center growth will cause electricity demands to triple in next decade

Critics warn of more fossil fuel use and surging customer costs.

December 02, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Georgia Power employees on truck. (Georgia Power/Facebook)

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  • News

Critics assail cost of Georgia Power biomass projects

Opponents of a proposal by Georgia Power to add more biomass to the utility’s electrical generating portfolio argued Thursday the plan is both unreliable and too expensive. Georgia Power is seeking approval from the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to buy about 80 megawatts of electricity from three plants in South Georgia that burn wood chips from waste generated by logging operations.

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks on-stage during an annual conference in San Francisco with the back drop of a massive data center.

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  • Business

AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change

The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.

July 12, 2024
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  • Dara Kerr
A giant truck hauls coal at a mine in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming

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  • Energy

Biden ending new leases in America's top coal region

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

May 16, 2024
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  • Kirk Siegler
Unlined coal ash landfills at Georgia Power's Plant Arkwright being consolidated into a single lined landfill on the bank of the Ocmulgee River in September of 2023. In addition to the liner, the new impoundment will collect any coal ash leachate for 30 years.

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  • Environment

What’s legal for closing Georgia’s coal ash ponds might hinge on one word: Infiltration

Some say that topdown solutions for Georgia’s coal ash ponds ignore depths of community health woes and the reality of how water flows.

April 11, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Climate

Georgia Power, PSC staff reach agreement on request for more generating capacity

Georgia Power and state energy regulators have agreed on a plan to increase the Atlanta-based utility’s electrical generating capacity including the construction of three new gas combustion turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan.

 

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
A 65 MW, Mossy Branch Battery Energy Storage System in Talbot County, Georgia in December 2023.

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  • Energy

Georgia installs first battery storage system in Talbot County. How it works and why it’s important

Georgia Power will soon flip a switch and turn on its latest clean energy construction project: battery storage.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Kala Hunter
Massive trucks and front end loaders look ant sized relative to the coal piled in front of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in this photo from 2019.

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  • Climate

Georgia Power says it needs more energy for industry. Critics say 'make it green'

Georgia Power says it needs more energy for new industry. Critics want to make sure the energy is clean.

January 16, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in 2020. A new study of deaths related to coal plant emissions ranks Scherer among the most dangerous in the nation.

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  • Environment

STUDY: Georgia's coal-fired power plants among the most deadly in the nation

A new study of smokestack emissions from coal fired power plants nationwide ranks two Georgia facilities among the most deadly in the nation.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Electric vehicle owners visited the EV roadshow when it stopped in Fayetteville, Georgia August 18, 2022.

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  • News

Nonprofit’s yearly energy-efficiency report gives Georgia low marks for EV, utility policies

An annual energy efficiency report ranks Georgia near the bottom of the nation due to excessive electricity rates, high fees for electric vehicles owners, and inefficient government policies.

July 03, 2023
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
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