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The U.S. must meet its electricity demands to win the AI war with China, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Breitbart News.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that a 25 percent surcharge would be applied to electricity exports to the United States, in response to President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

Protests against the communist Castro regime in Cuba continued Monday amidst near-endless power blackouts worsened by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit Cuba’s southeastern coast on Sunday.

Americans have been feeling the pain of rising costs of everyday necessities since President Joe Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) took office in January 2021.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered an alarming update on nationwide Russian bombings of his country on Monday, describing blackouts “everywhere” and significant harm to Ukraine’s power grid.

Cubans in Havana are increasingly resorting to using Chinese electric motorbikes, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, as the decrepit “classic” vehicles tourists fawn over become increasingly less reliable and the Communist Party fails to keep gasoline and diesel fuel stocked.

Former President Donald Trump vowed that if elected president in November, his administration would cut “energy and electricity prices” in half.

Residents of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) California may soon be slapped with a fixed electricity charge in the state’s push toward green energy.

Inflation under Joe Biden has sent the costs of maintaining a household soaring. Rent, electricity, and garbage collection prices are all up.

Reuters reported on Tuesday that major Indian firms are interested in building at least ten gigawatts of coal-fired power generation over the next decade, expanding some existing plants and reviving projects that stalled out when coal power fell into environmentalist disfavor.

India’s Ministry of Coal says it will not be transitioning to any alternative form of energy in the “foreseeable future.”

On Wednesday’s “CNN Newsroom,” host John Vause noted that Hamas oddly seems to have power in its bunkers despite the rest of Gaza running out of power while IDF Spokesman Jonathan Conricus remarked that it seems odd that the only

Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore wind projects bought by developers at a key government auction Thursday, as renewable energy groups shunned the sector as unviable even with heavy taxpayer subsidies.

Three people sat down on Chicago train tracks and ended up in a dangerous predicament while making their way to Lollapalooza.

President Joe Biden’s (D) ban on incandescent light bulbs begins today, limiting what types of lighting will be available for purchase.

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa’s newly minted electricity minister, followed up a trip to China last week with pronouncements that the Communist Party will provide a solution for the socialist country’s collapsing power grid, which has needed planned blackouts for much of the past year.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro offered on Monday to once again provide the Brazilian state of Roraima with electricity — despite most Venezuelans facing lengthy daily blackouts as a result of the nation’s decaying power grid.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham sounded the alarm about proposed rule changes from the EPA in regard to electricity production capacity in the state. Buckingham called the rule changes “an all-out attack on the energy industry, the robust Texas economy, everyday taxpayers, and public education funding in the state of Texas.”

New York State became the first state in the nation on Tuesday to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in new buildings, mandating a shift to renewable energy and electricity as the state’s power grid runs short of capacity.

Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain´s critical infrastructure, the UK government has warned.

California’s power companies are proposing to bill electricity consumers partly according to their income, rather than just on usage alone.

Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in the metro Detroit area and could be without it for days following a coast-to-coast winter storm sweeping over the area.

CLAIM: On Wednesday at Bowie State University, Vice President Kamala Harris stated the Biden administration has “reduced heating and electricity bills so folks have more money in their pocket.”

Load shedding,” the practice of controlled blackouts by the state-owned power company, Eskom, continues to plague South Africa, and was recorded in an early morning video on Wednesday.

The Communist Party of Cuba blamed burning sugar cane for a power outage that plunged half the island into darkness for hours on Monday, the latest in a series of electric failures that have fueled nearly incessant protests against the Castro regime.

California is in danger of becoming the next South Africa — not because of racial conflict, but because it is following a bad example of placing one overriding ideological priority ahead of all other practical concerns.

From Pretoria to Washington, two great and hopeful democracies are burdened by corrupt elites and weak political leadership.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa used his annual “State of the Nation” address to Parliament on Thursday evening to declare a “national state of disaster” regarding the country’s ongoing electricity shortages.

The price of electricity and gas is likely to remain high in Europe for the foreseeable future, with one German supplier warning that prices are likely to double in the coming months rather than go down.

The vast majority of the population of Pakistan – about 220 million of 240 million people – was left without electricity on Monday after a “widespread breakdown in the power system,” according to the Ministry of Energy.

More than a million UK households will be offered money for them to cut their electricity use between 5pm and 6pm on Monday.

Cofigeo, a group which owns several food companies in France, has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs. 

President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday to move South Africa off coal, its main source of energy, toward green energy sources — despite the fact that the country lacks the power to keep its electricity on 24 hours per day.

Andre de Ruyter, the chief executive officer of South Africa’s beleaguered state power company, Eskom, resigned Wednesday after he was scapegoated by the ruling African National Congress for ongoing blackouts.

The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan plan to meet to conclude an agreement on an undersea electricity connector.

The Swedish government has called on Swedes to save electricity, citing the risk of power disconnections, saying the energy situation in the country has become “acute”.