Taiwan suffered a massive power blackout on Tuesday evening that hit businesses and residential homes, affecting close to 7 million households on the heavily industrialized island amid sweltering heat. The outage left millions of homes without power and hit offices and factories on the island ...
Anti-nuclear shareholders in major Japanese utilities called for an end to nuclear power generation at general shareholders' meetings on Wednesday, citing safety concerns and a lack of support in local communities. Among the proposals at the meetings of eight power producers were withdrawal from the ...
Chubu Electric Power Co. has adopted a unique method to deter crows from nesting on transmission towers and causing blackouts by building artificial bird nests far from the power lines. Until recently, the company tried chasing the birds away from the towers with little success. ...
First it was Japan's steel makers, now it's the nation's power producers that are set to pay for China's coal policies. Japanese utilities may pay at least 29 percent more for annual supplies this year after China's efforts in 2016 to trim overcapacity led to ...
Infrastructure in Japan is up to world standards in most areas, and in terms of public transportation it often surpasses those standards — but there's one field it falls way behind: utility poles and overhead cables that carry electrical power and telecommunications. In London, Paris ...
Municipalities will be required from fiscal 2020 to keep data on water mains under a plan by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to ramp up the replacement of aging infrastructure across the country, according to sources. The program, which is designed to better ...
Canada's main spy agency last year warned energy companies about an increasing risk of cyber espionage and attacks on pipelines, oil storage and shipment facilities and power transmission towers using homemade explosives, according to a classified document obtained by Reuters. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service ...
A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defense company DCNS, aim to be the first to plug into the vast untapped tidal energy potential of the world's biggest archipelago. Renewables have so far played little part in ...
Switzerland votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to make a speedy withdrawal from atomic energy production, a move that would reduce nuclear risks but raise reliance on fossil fuels from Germany or imported nuclear power from France. The opposition Swiss Greens and Social ...
South Africa, a country beset by frequent power outages, will have to wait a little longer before pressing ahead with a highly contentious and very costly expansion of its aging nuclear power fleet. Exactly how long remains unclear. Last week was supposed to mark a key ...
The government may stay involved in the management of Tepco longer than planned, given the ballooning costs of scrapping the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Residents on the Russian island of Sakhalin face restored electricity supplies on Saturday, three days after an outage plunged most of the island into darkness. A power transmission line failed in the early hours on Wednesday, leaving 12 districts without electricity, including the towns of ...
