Renewables accounted for 88% of all new generating capacity to the end of November, while natural gas added just 11.8%, ...

Every generator and power station has two numbers listed on it: starting watts (sometimes called surge or peak watts) and ...

As the solar industry continues to expand, it is facing tighter land constraints and stricter environmental requirements. As a result, competition is increasingly shifting away from sheer capacity ...

In a potentially revolutionary development for renewable energy, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the generation of electricity using the Earth’s rotational energy. This breakthrough ...

In its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected that total U.S. electricity generation from the ...

Ocean waves could be an enormous source of power for the grid: In the U.S., the motion of waves along coastlines could generate as much as 1.4 trillion kilowatt-hours a year, or around a third of the ...

If you’ve ever found yourself camping away from shore power, the subject of electricity generation and storage is probably important to you. Some folks want to be able to spend as much time as they ...

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we ...