Legacy hydroelectricity — clean, dispatchable and cheap — has long dominated the renewable energy sector as a dependable workhorse. But by the decade’s end, wind may end up wearing the capacity factor […]

Shell applied on Wednesday to begin decommissioning the entire Brent oilfield—the namesake of ‘Brent crude’–in the North Sea, in a project that could take up to a decade to complete. While […]

The Tesla Motors “Gigafactory” in Nevada, will more than double global Li-ion battery production, one reason battery prices are falling so rapidly. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg After a terrible couple of years, this […]

These “shoes without a footprint” were made from carbon that was captured from power production. Photo courtesy NRG Imagine if the carbon dioxide (CO2) that emerges from smokestacks at coal- and natural […]

Powerhouse is a solar startup incubator in Oakland. The effort was founded by the industry veterans Emily Kirsch and Danny Kennedy, both of whom have ridden through the many ups and downs […]

Pulling a cohesive narrative out of the DistribuTech conference’s thousands of participants and menagerie of electrical doohickeys is like synopsizing James Joyce’s Ulysses. Amid the cacophony, however, a few trends emerged. The […]

BP views the future. (Photo: BP) BP’s new Energy Outlook predicts ever-growing demand for oil and gas, and rising emissions that would take the world well beyond 2°C of warming. According to […]

It’s the first day of the big DistribuTech conference in San Diego. Grid giants and startups are unveiling their latest products aimed at connecting utilities with the grid edge. Let’s start with […]

Toshiba is preparing to put an end to its nuclear power plant construction business as part of damage control measures following a huge write-off on its U.S. nuclear operations. This is […]

A new report released by the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) lays out three basic business models – third party, utility and hybrid – now […]