Imagine tires that charge a vehicle as it drives, streetlights powered by the rumble of traffic, or skyscrapers that generate electricity as the buildings naturally sway and shudder. These energy ...

The town of Hamlet, North Carolina, seemed to hit the jackpot in September 2014. After the community had endured decades of economic despair and high poverty rates, the world’s largest producer of ...

University of Waterloo engineering researchers in Canada have developed a way to capture electricity from water evaporating on walnut shells, opening up off-grid possibilities for small electronic ...

Why it matters: Over 25 million tons of single-use polystyrene packaging is manufactured annually on a global basis. However, only a tiny fraction gets recycled, with the vast majority ending up in ...

One of the common myths about solar panels is that using them to produce electricity isn't worth the expense. The Solar Energy Industries Association, or SEIA, would disagree, with "more than 8,100 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whatever one thinks about the merits of bitcoin, one thing is clear. It has a huge environmental impact. So far ...

In a first-of-its-kind step toward facilitating better education opportunities in remote areas of the Kingdom, through The Princess Alia Foundation initiative "Sustainable Education Through Renewable ...

JERUSALEM, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Israel is turning to its citizens to help produce electricity and profit from it as demand grows rapidly by putting solar panels on their roofs to take advantage of the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary and co-chair of a new White House energy council Doug Burgum on Friday called for every U.S. power plant to produce 10-15% more electricity to ...