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A suspected drone attack by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary has killed at least 11 people at a displacement camp in River Nile state, authorities said. In a statement late on Friday, the local governor said the attack knocked out a nearby power station for the fourth time since the war between the RSF and the Sudanese army began two years ago. The attack marks a deadly escalation in the ongoing conflict, with a further 23 people injured, a medical official said. Witnesses said at least nine children were among the wounded. "My son, my cousin, my daughter's husband and two children, my cousin's children are dead. The boy is 10 years old and the girl is about two years old," witness Haleema told Al Jazeera.

The global rush to AI technology will require almost as much energy by the end of this decade as Japan uses today, but only about half of the demand is likely to be met from renewable sources. Processing data, mainly for AI, will consume more electricity in the US alone by 2030 than manufacturing steel, cement, chemicals and all other energy-intensive goods combined, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). AI will be the main driver of that increase, with demand from dedicated AI datacentres alone forecast to more than quadruple. One datacentre today consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households, but some of those currently under construction will require 20 times more. But fears that the rapid adoption of AI will destroy hopes of tackling the climate crisis have been "overstated", according to the report, which was published on Thursday.

Planning inspectors recommended against a Hitachi-built nuclear power plant in Anglesey on the basis that it could dilute the island's Welsh language and culture, it has emerged. Hitachi scrapped plans to build a 20bn nuclear power plant at Wylfa in 2020 over cost concerns after failing to reach a funding agreement with UK ministers. Keir Starmer's government has vowed to make it easier to build major infrastructure projects by reforming the planning system and stopping campaigners from launching "excessive" legal challenges. The prime minister unveiled plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power this week, vowing to "push past nimbyism" and make sites across the country available for new power stations. Nuclear industry figures believe that the fate of Hitachi's proposed plant at Wylfa demonstrates the problems with the UK's planning system.

Global carbon emissions would be 6% lower than today if not for the "inaccurate narrative" against nuclear power since the Chornobyl disaster that has created "unfounded public concern", according to Tony Blair's thinktank. A report from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has found that if the nuclear power industry had continued to grow at the same pace as before the 1986 nuclear disaster, the carbon savings would be the equivalent of removing the emissions of Canada, South Korea, Australia and Mexico combined. The world's emissions are higher than they might have been because of a sharp slowdown in the number of nuclear reactors opened since the 1980s, said the report, released on Monday. It found that more than 400 reactors started up in the 30 years before the Chornobyl disaster, but fewer than 200 had been commissioned in the almost 30 years since. "The result is that nuclear energy has never become the ubiquitous power source many had projected, with countries instead turning towards alternatives such as coal and gas," the report said. The thinktank has predicted a "new nuclear age" in the years ahead, driven by a surge in demand for low-carbon electricity from the power-thirsty datacentres needed to power artificial intelligence.

Electricity generated from renewable energy sources has been established as an efficient remedy for both energy shortages and the environmental pollution stemming from conventional energy production methods. Solar and wind power are two of the most dominant renewable energy sources. The accurate forecasting of the energy generation of those sources facilitates their integration into electric grids, by minimizing the negative impact of uncertainty regarding their management and operation. This paper proposes a novel methodology for deterministic wind and solar energy generation forecasting for multiple generation sites, utilizing multi-location weather forecasts. The method employs a U-shaped Temporal Convolutional Auto-Encoder (UTCAE) architecture for temporal processing of weather-related and energy-related time-series across each site. The Multi-sized Kernels convolutional Spatio-Temporal Attention (MKST-Attention), inspired by the multi-head scaled-dot product attention mechanism, is also proposed aiming to efficiently transfer temporal patterns from weather data to energy data, without a priori knowledge of the locations of the power stations and the locations of provided weather data. The conducted experimental evaluation on a day-ahead solar and wind energy forecasting scenario on five datasets demonstrated that the proposed method achieves top results, outperforming all competitive time-series forecasting state-of-the-art methods.

Olena Rozumovska is at the end of her rope. Her two-bedroom apartment in an Soviet-era concrete building has no electricity or water supply, and the central heating is off after Russian drones and missiles struck Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, on Friday. I want to howl with despair," the 33-year-old, whose husband, Mykhailo, is fighting against Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine, told Al Jazeera over the phone. The outdoor temperatures in Kharkiv barely rose above freezing on Friday, a cold drizzle was falling, and her apartment building "is losing warmth", she said. Early in the morning, she jumped out of bed on hearing the thud of a powerful explosion. More than a dozen heavy, blood-curdling blasts followed as she hid in the frigid basement with her two children, Bohdan, who is seven, and four-year-old Roxana. The children were "hysterical" because they had to leave their Siamese cat behind. Their pet, named Monya, wouldn't come out from under the sofa. What roiled her and millions of Ukrainians was the scope of the bombardment, which became the largest strike on their nation's energy infrastructure since the war began in 2022. "The aim is not just to destroy but to try yet again, like last year, to cause a massive disruption of the energy infrastructure," Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko wrote on Facebook. In the winter of 2022-2023, Moscow switched to massive shelling that targeted energy infrastructure and civilian sites after realising that its blitzkrieg to take over all of Ukraine had failed. Friday's attacks with about 60 drones and 90 missiles killed at least two people, wounded scores, struck Ukraine's largest dam and severed the power supply to the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rebuked the West for months-long delays in military aid. "Russian missiles have no delays, unlike aid packages for Ukraine.