A regional utility has backed off a proposal to build twin coal-fired power plants in Missouri and Kansas and now plans just one plant while exploring conservation and wind power, its two top ...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently headed to Washington to lobby against a Bush administration policy he says will add to the American air pollution that accounts for half of Ontario's smog.

Two brothers and a cousin were electrocuted recently in West Orange, N.J., after a power line fell across a parked car outside their home, the authorities said. One victim was killed as he tried to ...

IMAGINE a 120-metre structure the size and shape of four railway carriages floating gently in the sea. The four cylinders rise and fall with the motion of the waves. The movement is harnessed to push ...

California energy officials have approved the construction of one of the largest new power plants to be built in the state since electricity deregulation. New Power Plant near Tracy, Calif., Wins ...

The government of New Brunswick unveiled new legislation to open the wholesale electricity market and turn its NB Power utility into a commercial venture. A bill lays out rules to govern an open ...

The IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Chapter will be hosting a special event in Toronto on Cables and Cable Insulation.

NEW YORK — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge recently urged private industry to do its part to secure the Internet infrastructure that has become critical to national and economic security.

The Brazilian government announced recently that it will export electricity to Argentina and Uruguay, which are currently suffering energy shortage. Brazilian Energy and Mining Minister Dilma Roussef ...

Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn't quite ready to hide a Romulan spaceship from Capt. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter. But ...

An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building ...

Customers of Wisconsin Energy Corp. could see a special charge on their electric bills to help the company pay for $600 million in environmental upgrades to its aging power plants, under a proposal ...