Gas costs too much. So does heating oil. And electricity. Americans love to complain about the cost of our energy. On the campaign trail, politicians love to offer policies that will lower it. But, as ...

When you’re buying a car, one factor to consider is the MPG (miles per gallon). Did you know that HERS (Home Energy Rating System) acts in the same way for houses? The HERS Index score tells ...

Every year, three in 20 households receives a disconnection notice from their energy provider and one in five must go without other basic necessities just to make energy bill payments. As energy costs ...

Wind generating capacity in China has reached more than 42 GW—the most of any country. At the end of 2009, more than 10,000 utility-scale wind turbines had been installed in China, according to the ...

How is the industry keeping pace with demand? The key to providing renewable, reliable energy is in the battery. The two biggest renewables (solar and wind) are intermittent; they can only be captured ...

The holiday season traditionally conjures up images of trees and homes strung with festive lights, cooking delicious food for cherished guests and a warm hearth to keep cold weather at bay. However, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. As oil prices continue to be low, energy firms need to double down on technology to ...

Back in 2010, China became the world's largest wind energy producer and the boom is continuing unabated, fuelled by government support and ambitious renewable energy targets. Data from the China Wind ...

In Part 1, we examined the evolution of battery technology. In this part, we examine what batteries can and cannot do, and the energy problem that humans hope that batteries can help solve.Batteries ...

Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is pretty much everywhere. Every time we breathe out we make more of it and every day when we drive out cars we create even more. If we were somehow able to convert CO2 into ...

Today’s graphic is special type of flow chart, called a Sankey diagram. This particular one shows the total estimated energy consumption in the United States in 2015, and how energy flowed from source ...