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29.09.26 - 16:42
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′It′s just cruel′: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer (The Guardian)
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Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data showsA record hot summer collided unhappily with rising energy costs for households across the US that struggled to the point where many were disconnected from their electricity supply, even as dangerous heat baked their communities.In July, the hottest month ever recorded in the US, 173,598 households were shut off from their electric supply by utilities across 10 states, figures provided to the Guardian show. This snapshot of American life points to a worsening problem, with the rate of electricity disconnections surging 28% compared to July 2024. Continue reading......
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29.09.26 - 15:24
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What is Burnham′s GB Grid plan and could it bring down energy bills? (The Guardian)
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Proposed government-backed network body welcomed by some in sector but others call it just another quangoAndy Burnham's first address to the Labour party conference as prime minister is due to address Britain's rising energy costs and sluggish economic growth with plans for a new government-backed body to invest in the electricity grid.The proposals to set up GB Grid, first revealed by the Guardian, build on the party's manifesto pledge to create Great British Energy, a state-owned company to invest in renewables, but with the tougher challenge of lowering bills and supercharging the economy. Continue reading......
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28.09.26 - 16:12
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Heat pump sales soar across Europe after states cut electricity taxes, data shows (The Guardian)
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EU to push members to cut tax rate below duty on gas, with 10%+ surge in sales also put down to fallout from Iran warBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesSales of residential heat pumps jumped across Europe in the first six months of the year, as the Iran war sent oil and gas prices rocketing and some countries lowered electricity taxes.Homeowners bought 1.16m heat pumps across 12 European countries, up from 1.05m in the first half of 2025, according to the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA). Continue reading......
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28.09.26 - 04:45
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Bring Your Own Power Plant: Goldman Now Sees Behind-The-Meter Powering 25% Of All Data Centers By 2030 (ZeroHedge)
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Bring Your Own Power Plant: Goldman Now Sees Behind-The-Meter Powering 25% Of All Data Centers By 2030
For the past year we have been banging the same drum: if hyperscalers want to plug a city's worth of load into an already-strained grid, especially without being burned down to the ground by an angry mob after it has seen its electricity bill 10x in a year, they should bring their own power plant.
Back in November, as electric bills began their now-familiar vertical ascent, we said it plainly:
To prevent skyrocketing electric bills, every state has to follow the Texas example: each data center must have its own "behind the meter" onsite power generation.
“We believe data centers should pay for the full cost of their power,” Dominion Energy spokesperson Aaron Ruby… https://t.co/0u1owTeAs8 pic.twitter.com/8W421s3rzV
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 23, 2025
A month later we dropped any pretense of nuance:
Make "behind the meter" mandatory https://t.co/ZEcmX5Ge0e pi...
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27.09.26 - 03:48
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Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control (ZeroHedge)
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Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control
Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup,
When Money Stops Being Money
Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. Not with a declaration. Not with a law passed in the dead of night. Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save purchasing power outside of a system that can freeze it, monitor it, or program it will become a memory that seems almost fictional to those who never experienced it.
I have watched this unfold over years of observing payment systems, reading central bank white papers that few citizens bother to examine, and noticing how my own transactions leave increasingly detailed trails. The pattern is consistent across nations: convenience precedes surveillance, and surveillance precedes control.
We are not approaching a cashless society. We are sleepwalking into it. And for anyon...
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26.09.26 - 03:51
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China′s Newest Power Plant Swaps Steam For Supercritical CO2 (ZeroHedge)
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China's Newest Power Plant Swaps Steam For Supercritical CO2
Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com,
China just broke ground on a revolutionary new hybridized energy production and storage facility. The power plant will store excess energy in the form of molten salt, and then produce electricity during peak demand times through a supercritical carbon dioxide system. The goal of the project is to limit energy waste while also stabilizing the local power grid. The project could also inform future next-gen energy and energy storage systems, including for application in the nuclear power sector and even on the moon.
Construction of the Ruitan demonstration project began last week in Shandong province in eastern China. The facility is expected to be up and running by next year, at which point it will be the first of its kind to operate on the planet. The first phase of the project will involve a supercritical unit with a capacity of 50 megawatts, and a molten salt energy storage system with a ...
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26.09.26 - 03:51
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Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology (ZeroHedge)
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Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $2 billion for smart technology improvements to the nation's electric grid, aiming to address concerns about artificial intelligence power usage, blackouts, and higher utility bills heading into the colder seasons.
During a press conference on Sept. 24, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the investment would affect around 100 million Americans. Nationally, the spending would be distributed across 31 projects in 26 states and is expected to produce more than 23 gigawatts of electricity annually, enough to power about 16 million homes.
"This is a quick way to lower electricity prices and increase reliability: using fibers that are already in the transmission lines to analyze what's the temperature out, what's the wind out, how can we use this transmission line to distribute more power, but safely and only in the right conditions," Wright said, speaking ...
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25.09.26 - 21:42
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New York Audits Utility AI Use, Cites Risk In "Growing Dependency" (ZeroHedge)
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New York Audits Utility AI Use, Cites Risk In "Growing Dependency"
By Robert Walton of UtilityDive
The New York Public Service Commission last week launched an inquiry into public utility use of artificial intelligence, noting that AI systems “create risk for organizations” but are also increasingly used to perform basic tasks.
The Sept. 17 order requires electric, gas and water utilities to respond within 60 days with “a written inventory report that describes all use cases of AI systems in their operations.”
Consolidated Edison, which serves New York City, said it uses AI for a range of uses, including customer service and system inspections. “As technology evolves, we will continue to evaluate opportunities,” a spokesperson said in an email to Utility Dive.
Public utilities are increasingly using AI systems for day-to-day operations, and New York regulators are concerned they are “susceptible to hallucinations, algorithmic biases, transparency issues, data privacy co...
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