Stories by Melissa C. Lott

By Wang Tao Struggling sales in the electric vehicle (EV) market have resulted in serious questions being raised about their viability. Despite Chinese government incentives, only a few Chinese EV pilot cities have met their target of putting 1,000 EVs on the road.

The electric Tesla Model S might be the safest car ever made. Or, at least one of the safest production cars that the U.S. federal government has ever tested.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.“ ~William Arthur Ward When it was built in 2000, Middelgrunden (situated 3.5 km off Denmark’s coastline) was the largest offshore wind farm in the world.

At the Arizona-Nevada Border in the southwestern United States, the Hoover Dam has been standing tall since 1936. Originally called the Boulder Dam, this hydroelectric power station held the title of “world’s largest” until 1945 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam.

Today, an official confirmed that solar panels are being installed on the White House roof as “a part of an energy retrofit that will improve the overall energy efficiency of the building.” This is the second time that solar panels have graced the building’s roof.

Chris and Malissa Tack’s home in Snohomish, Washington is smaller than a studio apartment. But, its 140 square feet boasts all the modern conveniences that they need to live and work.

This photo was taken in Balzac at Walmart’s fresh food distribution center. The engineers and construction workers who designed and built this facility – located in the southern portion of the Canadian province of Alberta – used infrared camera to identify energy waste points throughout the center, including at all of the loading docks. Today, this [...]

The people have spoken – pig poop is on top. This summer, finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Business Competition submitted short video overviews of their innovative ideas.

Last fall, photographer Dan Green was documenting community libraries in Nepal when he met Sita, a library board member and the chief entrepreneur with Empower Generation.

This summer, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are testing technology that could help reduce fuel consumption by 20-25% in natural gas power plants.