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JCP\u0026L slashes 75% of infrastructure plan in bid to keep rates from rising so much

app 25 Apr 2025
At a time when customers are expecting higher bills this summer, Jersey Central Power & Light has cut back its ambitious $930.5 million investment plan in the electric grid by more than 75% as part of an agreement with state regulators.
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Columbia residents urged to keep up with trash, recycling habit

Columbia Daily Tribune 25 Apr 2025
The Sunday tornado also knocked down 20 large-scale electric transmission poles, impacting six major electric circuits and cutting power for more than 4,000 Columbia electric customers.
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1,359 MW Solar power generation projects completed, Over 2 lakh farmers now get day time power supply, says Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
Solar power generation ... At present, farmers get electricity in two shifts, day and night, for agricultural pumps.This scheme will meet the farmers' demand for only daytime power supply to pumps.
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Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

Grist 25 Apr 2025
electrical guidelines don’t account for the possibility of plugging a power-generating device into a household outlet ... They’re designed to minimize the risk of electric shock by cutting off power when, for example, a hairdryer falls into a sink.
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Iraq’s Path to Energy Security Is Taking Shape, by James Durso

The Unz Review 25 Apr 2025
The GE Vernova contract will build “combined-cycle gas power plants with a total capacity of approximately 24,000MW, marking the largest and most advanced electricity generation initiative in Iraq’s ...
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Crucial role for VPPs in securing power supply

ECNS 25 Apr 2025
With aggregations of distributed energy resources, including renewables, storage and controllable loads, VPPs can provide electricity to the power grid and respond to changes in demand, reduce costs ...
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Renewing our commitment to the planet

Manila Bulletin 25 Apr 2025
Advocates called out companies' fossil fuel dependence for power generation and distribution, stressing that it's a major factor aggravating climate change and driving up electricity prices. A peek at the power scene.
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Arizona utilities want free access to your wallet. And they just might get it | Opinion

Azcentral 25 Apr 2025
The state constitution established the Arizona Corporation Commission and entrusted its elected commissioners to regulate and set rates for APS, Tucson Electric Power, UNS Electric and the electric cooperatives.
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Cable thieves deprive western rural Damascus of electricity

Enab Baladi 25 Apr 2025
In the months following the fall of the Assad regime, there was a security breakdown and a noticeable increase in electrical cable thefts, in addition to cutting down electricity poles, resulting in power outages.
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Trichy residents fume over frequent power cuts

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
They urged Tangedco to rectify the snags affecting electricity distribution ... Tangedco sources said the sudden increase in power usage at night caused a sharp surge in electricity load and developed snags in the distribution network.
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Power blues for Lucknow residents amid soaring temps, increased demand

Hindustan Times 25 Apr 2025
Amid soaring temperatures and increased power demand in the state capital, residents continue to face frequent outages despite repeated promises over the past five years by different ministers to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply.
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Drone strike on power station cuts electricity in 2 Sudanese states

Anadolu Agency 25 Apr 2025
A drone strike Friday targeted the Atbara power station in northern Sudan, cutting off electricity to the River Nile and Red Sea states and sparking a large fire, according to Sudan’s electricity company.
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China's wind, solar energy capacity surpasses thermal power for first time

Xinhua 25 Apr 2025
In the first quarter of this year, electricity generated from wind and photovoltaics reached 536.4 billion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 22.5 percent of China's total power use, up 4.3 percentage points from the same period last year.
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Xinjiang leads China's renewable revolution with record energy transfers2025/4/25 8:43:57(Beijing Time) Lange Steel

Lange Steel 25 Apr 2025
The Xinjiang Power Trading Center reported that nearly 30 percent of this electricity — about 260 billion kWh — came from renewable sources like wind and solar.
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Daytime power helps women to work in fields

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
The introduction of electric power to farmers during the daytime is bringing about a change in the fields. Women are now able to chip in with farm work, something they could not contribute earlier as power supply to the fields was made only at night.
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