Greater energy efficiency and load shifting could help meet rising electricity needs at a fraction of the cost of building new power plants.

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

Many of the developers of the largest projects want to install natural gas plants directly at the site of new data centers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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