Alternative Energy Technology

What is congestion charging? Congestion charging or pricing is the practice of setting up cordon tolls around the city on a large-scale to charge entrants for entering during peak hours.

The Michigan start-up Sakti3 says its solid-state cells more than double the energy density of today’s best Li-Ion batteries

Exercising in the future could make dirty clothes and some clean energy. Karen Hopkin reports

Scientists hunting for the next big thing in biofuels find 49 candidate plants

Reaping benefits from solar panels on a home may be harder than some sales pitches suggest

An analysis by an environmental group finds hundreds of cases in which drillers used diesel fuel without obtaining permits and sometimes altered records

On Sunday night, wind power in the United Kingdom supplied more electricity than domestic coal, biomass, and hydropower (combined) and set a new record for maximum hourly output.

The Chinese government has identified public participation as a key element in its efforts to reverse some of the environmental damage done by more than three decades of breakneck economic growth

Poor installation and grid connections are also among a laundry list of problems facing China's effort to go solar

China's coastal economic boom is burning out its marine food resources

The U.S. lags behind much of the world in investing in Africa's energy development

Previously, I've written about the potential for a future smart grid, where homes with solar panels and batteries intelligently interconnect to form a cleaner, more-robust distributed power system.