Energy

Thanks mostly to less coal use at power plants, emissions in the first half of 2016 were lowest since 1991

Millions of people are coming online, and that requires (renewable) energy

Gauntlet is now thrown down to maritime and land transportation

Tests show that technology can control methane emissions

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.  

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa share the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Towers will grab gas emitted by a huge coal power plant, but use it to pump oil out of the ground

A design flaw introduced during a recent upgrade could keep the reactor offline for at least a year

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy Released “6 Charts that Will Make You Optimistic About America’s Clean Energy Future” that track cost declines and rising use of some key technologies.

According to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, solar costs continued to drop in 2016.

This month, San Francisco-based solar software company kWh Analytics announced that it had raised $5 million in Series A venture capital to support the scaling of the company’s solar data platform as well as its new “PowerLock” (an A-rated insurance-backed production guarantee).

Former Soviet republic bids for independence from Russian fossil fuels