Both hydropower and conventional thermal combustion electricity is depleted in a hotter new climate. A new paper published at Nature Climate Change, Power-generation system vulnerability and ...

On the hot, sweeping deserts of Rhajastan, India has built the world’s largest solar farm – and they aren’t even done yet. The 2.5 GW solar farm, known as the Bhadla Solar Park, is just one small part ...

If you drive an electric vehicle in Illinois, you’re going to get a little shock when it comes time for your annual vehicle registration. Last weekend, the Illinois National Assembly approved raising ...

China issued an update on its solar progress this week and made every other solar-seeking country around the world feel kind of pathetic. The National Energy Board said 5.04 GW was installed in the ...

If these UCLA researchers are right – and we might find out pretty soon – energy storage could be in for a big change. Richard Kaner and his graduate student Maher El-Kady have been trumpeting ...

This past September the SolarStrong Project was all set to go with a $275 million U.S. government loan package for 160,000 rooftop solar installations on over 124 U.S. military bases in 33 states. But ...

There are just 5,800 publicly available EV charging stations in the United States and people say that’s a roadblock to selling more electric vehicles. So imagine the challenge for fuel-cell vehicles: ...

Method Homes is a Seattle manufacturer of modular prefab homes that emphasize sustainability and variety. They currently offer eight different design series from several different architectural firms, ...

This is undeniably cool, but just to be clear: I’m not going up in Tomás Saraceno’s solar-powered air balloon made of garbage bag material. Yours either, if you build one. And you can build one, ...

Researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles have created a device that harnesses the static electricity inherent within snow. But while it’s certainly an exciting prospect for ...

For many people contemplating a new “green” home, a looming fear is that they may not find contentment in a house that is conspicuously very white and very contemporary. Where will Aunt Mabel’s ...

When you’re living in a remote area that’s miles away from the grid, you need to find alternative ways to power your daily activities. The SALt lamp requires only a cup of salt water in order to ...