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A coal-fired power station in Witbank, South Africa , Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.

Scheduled blackouts roll South Africa into electricity crisis

Energy

The lights may be off, but “crisis mode” is definitely switched on in South Africa. Despite a national state of disaster and a new minister of electricity, scheduled power outages, known as load-shedding, continue to heavily impact citizens.

Superstorm Sandy awakens America to fragile state of power grid

Global Politics

Wireless power transfer for your gadgets

Environment

Energy Hearing in the House

Global Politics

Smart meters, privacy nightmares

Environment

The grid debate: Decentralize or expand infrastructure

Environment

Two authors debate whether we should move away from centralized power, water and other utilities or invest more in them.

Smart grid powers energy efficiency

Environment

President Obama announces $3.4 billion dollars worth of stimulus money to roll out the American smart grid.

India Power Outages: Living Through the Blackout

Environment

A BBC journalist in New Delhi tells what it was like living through India’s blackouts.

Smart Meter, Big Brother

Smart meter technology is turning some heads with its ability to reveal personal details about energy consumers’ lives.

The World

There’s a Strong Wind A-Blowin’

Living On Earth’s Jesse Wegman reports on the renaissance of wind power. In this past year alone U.S. wind farms have added a billion watts of generating capacity. And the Dept. of Energy recently pledged to increase the amount of electricity derived from wind by nearly fifty fold by the year 2020.