The Wrights turned their Texas home from a solar-powered standalone into part of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) network, which ...

Shine 2.0 looks to redefine an already awesome product by also leveraging power station recharge and a higher output than the ...

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 ...

The AI boom is creating an unexpected trend: data centers are increasingly looking to become their own utilities. For years, ...

It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight. In 2023 ...

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), ...

Since 2012, UK-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now one crucial step closer to manufacturing its lightweight, ...

A newly developed organic semiconductor device can both generate electricity from light and emit bright visible light, as reported by researchers from Science Tokyo. By carefully designing a material ...

Days before last weekend's winter storm arrived, I began getting anxious about the possibility of an ice storm and major power outages. I kept recalling the catastrophic ice storms of December 2000 ...