Tesla Powerwall in a home. Credit: Tesla Brian Eckhouse, Bloomberg Here’s the latest wrinkle in the battery boom: National Grid Plc is paying consumers to tap electricity from their power-storage systems. The utility has about 40 customers in the program now in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and ...

Nate Lanxon, Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to expand its data center infrastructure in the Netherlands. A new facility will be built in Agriport, about 30 miles north of Amsterdam, while an existing site about 130 miles further north, in Eemsh...

fuedeqquvxdudzxefazdeqbacyeq Jeremy Hodges, Bloomberg The Kariba Dam has towered over one of Africa’s mightiest rivers for 60 years, forming the world’s largest reservoir and providing reliable electricity to Zambia and Zimbabwe. But as drought grips the region, flow on the Zambezi river has dwi...

Wind or solar now represent the least expensive option for adding new power generation capacity in approximately two-thirds of the world. And further falls in technology will see the two leading forms of renewable energy powering nearly half of the global grid by 2050 and attracting $9.5 trillion in...