While adopting clean and diverse forms of renewable energy is the right step, it can lead to a less robust power grid, says Alvin Chew of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

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Dutch citizens have been advised to keep a minimum amount of cash in their pockets and wallets in case of emergency ...

With France continuing to stall energy links from the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal is weighing an electrical interconnection ...

These blackouts spread into southern France and Portugal, conveying the regrettable and apparently unsuspected message that ...

I think it is quite clear that space weather was not the cause of the dramatic power outage in Spain recently' ...

Portugal wants European energy regulators' agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power ...