The Latest Breaking News from Electricity

CHENNAI: When a 19-year-old youth climbed a high-tension electricity transmission tower in the Tambaram Sanatorium area on Friday, demanding that he be married to his girlfriend, it marked the beginning of a two-hour-long drama. It ended with the girl, a 15-year-old Class XI student, being brought to the spot and…

An oil leak from an electricity substation at the East Lothian nuclear power station site sparked warnings against going into the water or fishing at Thorntonloch and Skateraw beaches and surrounding coastline

As extreme weather becomes increasingly frequent, Texans said the power grid operator’s calls to conserve energy were a reminder the state still struggles to keep up with the growing power demand.

GURGAON: Residents of Ardee City were the first in the state to pay ‘development charges’ to the tune of Rs 7.78 crore to DHBVN for a permanent power connection in the Sector 52 township due to the developer’s failure to build the required electrical infrastructure.

Some households are installing multiple solar power batteries to make more money selling electricity back to the grid.

Almost one in 10 Canadian households spend more than 10 per cent of their income to heat and cool their homes, keep the lights on and to store or cook food. For these households, the high cost of energy, which includes electricity, natural gas, heating oil and propane, means they…

Many of us are familiar with the typical results of burning fuels such as coal, natural gas and oil. The reaction produces heat which we harness to warm our homes, heat water and cook food, power vehicles and generate electricity.

Households without an electricity contract will not receive the £400 energy rebate in October.

Mahmud Aguil has a comfortable house in Libya's capital Tripoli, but chronic power outages in the war-battered country and roasting summer heat now force him to sleep in his air-conditioned van. "This is my bedroom," the 48-year-old said pointing to the cramped vehicle, its back seats removed to make space…