The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

Electricity generators on the biggest U.S. grid will be paid 32% less next year for being on standby to keep power flowing on the system stretching from New Jersey to Illinois.

An unprecedented intervention in Australia's east coast energy market will be gradually removed over the next day, with authorities increasingly confident in the supply of wholesale electricity.

By Christopher Guérin, Chief Executive Officer of Nexans

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

It was the hot topic of letters between former PM Scott Morrison and the Tasmanian government — and it appears there's still no guarantee Australia's poorest state won't pay half the cost of a massive new power project but reap only a fraction of the benefits.

Email letters@newcastleherald.com.au or send a text message to 0427 154 176 (include name and suburb).

An accelerated breakdown in services including water and electricity supplies has left Sudanese citizens counting the cost of political stalemate after a military takeover last October.

Lebanon, Egypt and Syria have signed an agreement to import Egyptian gas to a power plant in northern Lebanon through Syria

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Umm Mohammed, 74, waves a fan back and forth to cool down, but in the blistering heat of Iraq's southern city of Basra there is nothing but stiflingly hot air. While Basra is used to scorching summers, this year it has started sooner than expected, bringing misery to residents in…

The company says the "diabolical" energy crisis affecting Australia's east coast had an "unbearable" effect on its ability to operate.