Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility bills: ...

Plug-in solar has long been popular in Europe, but rising energy costs and a raft of new state laws are boosting its ...

In 1812 Frederick Winsor, a madcap entrepreneur, invented the public utility. The idea behind his Gas Light and Coke company, which would supply residents of London, was that instead of each household ...

Some of the best solutions to engineering problems occur when you combine two problems that solve each other. In engineering this is the concept of symbiotic design. The integrated solution uses the ...

Last month, an energy think tank released some rare good news for the climate: The world is on track to install 29 percent more solar capacity this year than it did the year before, according to a ...