The importance of electricity in our modern world can hardly be overstated. What was a luxury a hundred years ago is now a ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts solar energy will be the leading force behind this year’s growth in the ...

When the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow, humanity still needs power. Researchers are designing new technologies, from reinvented batteries to compressed air and spinning wheels, to keep ...

As the electrons flow through the cell, they generate electricity. On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source.

Their findings show that a single image generation can consume as much as half of a smartphone's battery charge, ...

Utilities are delaying coal plant retirements and running them even when they cost more than renewable sources.

As lawmakers begin discussing energy solutions, the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee heard from energy ...