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  1. Iceland to Cut Petrol Tax as Costlier Oil Risks Price Outlook

    Iceland will temporarily lower taxes on gasoline to help ease inflation after the war in Iran sent prices…
    #Iceland #IS #Europe #Europa #EU #electricvehicles #electricalgrid #exports #iceland #interestrates #island #naturalresources #oilandgas #taxrate #VATandGST
    europesays.com/2909987/

  2. California Appeals Court Upholds State’s Rooftop Solar Policy

    The California Public Utilities Commission followed the law when it composed a new residential solar policy that lowered…
    #Environment #Customsduties #electricalgrid #exports #publicutilities #solarenergy #sustainability
    europesays.com/2836752/

  3. Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery

    Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1.9 gigawatts of…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #batteries #DataCenters #electricalgrid #FormEnergy #Google #solarpower #windpower
    newsbeep.com/us/489470/

  4. Google’s new 1.9GW clean energy deal includes massive 100-hour battery

    Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1.9 gigawatts of…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #batteries #DataCenters #electricalgrid #FormEnergy #Google #solarpower #windpower
    newsbeep.com/us/489470/

  5. But. But. But. But. Didn’t the US Republicans tell us that going solar would be too complicated and also too unreliable to use? Look how fast a country went from 1% adoption to 20%! And I noticed that tariffs play a part in decisions to do things differently. Hmmmm. #Solar #SolarPower #Electricity #ElectricalGrid

    wri.org/insights/pakistan-sola

  6. "Data centers must coöperate with local electric utilities to manage these training runs. The water coursing above CoreWeave’s microchips enters at room temperature but leaves warmer than a hot bath. It is cooled in a storage tank before being recycled into the system. The temperature, humidity, and particulate count of the air inside the room are also carefully monitored. “Condensation is our enemy,” Conley said, gravely.
    All these microchips, all this electricity, all these fans, all this money, all these data, all these water-cooling pumps and cables—all of it is there to tune the weights, this little file of numbers, which is small enough to fit on an external hard drive. A great deal depends on this well-tempered collection of synthetic neurons. The money spent to develop it, and others like it, represents one of the largest deployments of capital in human history.

    When the finished product is ready, clones of the weights are distributed to data centers around the country, where they can be accessed through the internet, a process known as “inference.” Users ask questions, prompting the A.I. to produce individual units of intelligence called “tokens.” A token might be a small square of pixels or a fragment of a word. To write a college term paper, an A.I. might produce about five thousand tokens, consuming enough electricity to run a microwave oven at full power for about three minutes. As A.I. fields increasingly complex requests—for video, for audio, for therapy—the need for computing power will increase many times over."

    newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11

    #AI #GenerativeAI #DataCenters #Energy #ElectricalGrid

  7. Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

    The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of…
    #NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #CA #Canada #electricalgrid #Energyinfrastructure #PJMInterconnection #powerconsumption
    newsbeep.com/ca/108819/

  8. #Trump is expected to unveil his #AIActionPlan, focusing on accelerating American #AIdevelopment through infrastructure, innovation, and global influence: The plan aims to overhaul permitting rules for #AI #datacentres, modernise the #electricalgrid, and advance the adoption of American #AImodels and #AIchips worldwide. techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/trum #tech #media #news

  9. The US #Grid #Attack Looming on the Horizon

    A major #cyberattack on the US #electricalGrid has long worried #security experts. Such an attack wouldn’t be easy. But if an adversary pulled it off, it’d be lights out in more ways than one.
    #offgrid #offthegrid

    wired.com/story/youre-not-read

  10. Did ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ cause blackouts in #Europe? An #electrical engineer explains the phenomenon

    #Portugal’s grid operator #REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare phenomenon known as “induced #atmospheric #vibration”. REN has since reportedly refuted this.

    But what is this vibration? And how can #energy systems be improved to mitigate the risk of widespread blackouts?

    theconversation.com/did-induce

    #Blackouts #grid #electricity #weather #ElectricalGrid

  11. I saw something celebratory go by about Spain managing a day powered totally by renewable energy sources recently, and yet today they've been hit by a blackout.

    This highlights how, while renewable energy is an excellent step forward, a transition towards networks of microgrids is an important step the world needs to embrace for more resilient, robust and adaptable operation.

    #electricalGrid #electricity

  12. I'm pleased to share this, a preprint of our first work on predicting electrical grids using graph neural networks: "Enhanced Load Forecasting with GAT-LSTM: Leveraging Grid and Temporal Features" led by Ugochukwu Orji arxiv.org/abs/2502.08376 #ai4good #forecasting #GNN #electricalgrid

  13. Next post of my living literature review is out! This month we're diving into #ResilientFood - what could we eat if sunlight disappeared or our #ElectricalGrid collapsed? 🌍
    This builds on the work at #ALLFED - Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters in general and on a great review by Juan B. García Martínez in particular. I explore how different foods could help sustain humanity during global catastrophes. From #seaweed to #SingleCellProtein, there are many options. The post also examines what we can learn from #OperationWarpSpeed about rapidly scaling critical technologies when we need them most. 🌱🔬
    Want to learn more about feeding humanity during catastrophes? Check out the full post here: existentialcrunch.substack.com

  14. " The US could essentially double the capacity of its #ElectricalGrid overnight by plugging renewables projects into old fossil fuel power plants, University of California Berkeley researchers found, whether they be coal, gas or oil. And projects could be plugged into existing plants, not just ones that are retiring. "

    cnn.com/2024/09/16/climate/coa

  15. The first five #offshorewind turbines at #VineyardWind1 in Massachusetts have powered up. The 13MW #windturbines are now delivering around 65MW of clean energy to the #NewEngland #electricalgrid, enough to power 30,000 homes and businesses in #Massachusetts. Nine turbines are installed, and 10th is underway. The 11th turbine is about to be transported to the offshore site. Each #GE #HaliadeX turbine has a 220m (722ft) rotor, 107m (351ft) blades, and is 248m (814ft) tall.
    electrek.co/2024/02/22/massach

  16. Grid failure is a real and imminent threat, a devastatingly deadly occurrence leading to life-threatening shortages of heat, food, and water. #ElectricalGrid #GridDown

    Prepare because the odds of it happening are extremely high.

    griddownpowerup.com/