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How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable

5 December 2025 at 05:00
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.

Employees working on battery units at the solar project, which is owned by AES, a Virginia company that holds utilities and power plants across the world.

Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives

12 November 2025 at 05:02
Many business leaders are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit in BelΓ©m, Brazil, or are attending events in other cities.

Β© Fernando Llano/Associated Press

Officials from around the world are attending the U.N. climate summit in BelΓ©m, Brazil, this week, but U.S. government and business leaders are not among them.

Trump Administration Backs Plan for New Nuclear Plants

28 October 2025 at 14:16
The federal government announced that it would back an effort to build several Westinghouse nuclear reactors, but offered few details.

Β© Audra Melton for The New York Times

The new projects would include a Westinghouse reactor, like those used in the recent construction of two units at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Ga.

Does Your Electric Bill Keep Going Up? We Want to See It.

Utility rates are rising in many places across the country, and we’re continuing to report on the causes and impacts.

Β© Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

Electricity meters in Charleston, W.Va.
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