Texas baked under triple-digit heat this week as its power grid absorbed something it had never seen before: back-to-back days of record-shattering electricity demand, peaking above…
At a signing ceremony in Washington, D.C., the Port of Long Beach did something no American port had done before — it formally committed to nuclear…
Every day, roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil and a significant share of its container cargo passes through the Strait of Hormuz — a…
In late April 2025, the lights went out across Spain and Portugal at once. The blackout — abrupt, widespread, and lasting the better part of a…
A 20-kilowatt solar system sitting on a western Chicagoland roof generated so much electricity last spring that the home sent roughly a megawatt-hour of surplus power…
More than 70% of Earth’s surface is ocean, and running through it — just beneath the waves — are powerful currents carrying enormous amounts of kinetic…
Hundreds of meters below the Pacific’s surface, in a dimly lit stretch of ocean most people have never heard of, the water can turn as murky…
Sweden generates more than 20 percent of its electricity from onshore wind and has staked its industrial competitiveness on a green power future. Yet when it…
When a heat wave or major storm hits, power grid operators face a problem that compounds itself: demand surges at the same moment that solar panels…
Wind speed has long been treated as the master variable of wind energy — the number that determines how much electricity a turbine will produce on…
A parked wind turbine looks like the safest version of itself — blades locked, rotor still, waiting out the storm. But aerodynamically, standstill may be one…
A floating wind turbine never stands perfectly still. Its platform rolls and pitches on ocean swells, and that constant motion has long been treated as a…
When a California renter opened his electricity bill last summer and saw $389 staring back at him, his first instinct wasn’t to cut back on gaming…
Semona Holmes has fruit trees in her yard, potted flowers on her porch, and a fish pond out back. She also has floodwater — rising to…
Across Pennsylvania, millions of square feet of flat warehouse rooftops sit largely unused, baking under the sun year after year. For decades, that space has been…
When a hurricane makes landfall in Florida, the grid often goes with it — and neighborhoods that were bustling hours earlier go completely dark. Emergency responders…
Every rooftop solar panel added to a neighborhood is a small stress test for the wires buried beneath the street. Multiply that by millions of installations,…
Wake steering has long looked like one of wind energy’s most promising free gains: deliberately point a turbine slightly off the wind, redirect its shadow away…
Most people assume solar panels thrive where the sun is most brutal — the Saudi desert, the scorching Sahara, anywhere the heat is relentless and the…
Water evaporating from a surface seems almost too simple to matter — yet this quiet physical process drives Earth’s entire hydrological cycle and sits at the…
Every day, cities around the world produce millions of tonnes of sewage sludge — a dense, contaminated byproduct of wastewater treatment that’s notoriously hard to process…
Solar panels belong on rooftops, or so the logic went. Now they’re heading to the open ocean — not to sheltered bays or inland reservoirs, but…
Picture a floating wind turbine the size of a city block — 120 meters wide, riding ocean swells with its hull anchored 30 meters below the…
Offshore wind farms in the North Sea don’t just harvest the wind — they reshape it. As turbines extract energy from the air, they leave behind…
In a Swiss village, solar panels beneath active train tracks generate clean electricity for nearby homes — a world first The strip of ground between two…
Bhadla Solar Park stretches across one of India’s harshest corners of the Thar Desert — a place practically built for solar energy. Clear skies are the…
Floating offshore wind is moving fast. Twenty-seven countries have set offshore wind targets, Japan just brought its first commercial floating farm online, and France, the UK,…
A structure taller than the Eiffel Tower and weighing nearly 8,000 tonnes recently sailed out of Gaolan Port in southern China, headed for one of the…
During California’s 2020 wildfire season, more than 10,000 distribution poles were destroyed and over 3 million customers lost power. Some of those outages weren’t caused by…
The power grid that keeps your lights on is more fragile than most people realize. A well-placed cyberattack or a severe storm can knock out a…
When a massive wind turbine shuts down during an extreme storm, its blades don’t simply rest. Parked and exposed to howling winds from an unexpected direction,…
Wind turbines are among the most sophisticated machines in modern energy infrastructure — precision-engineered, computer-optimized, and central to the global push away from fossil fuels. Yet…
Dunhuang sits at the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China, where the sun is relentless and water is scarce. It’s, by almost every measure,…
Floating offshore wind turbines can reach some of the strongest, most consistent winds on the planet — but those same winds are also among the hardest…
At 11 a.m., a homeowner glanced at their phone, saw a delivery alert, and stepped outside expecting 10 carefully packaged solar panels. What they found instead…
In solar technology, purity has long been non-negotiable. Silicon solar cells — the industry standard for decades — demand near-perfect crystals, painstakingly purified to eliminate defects…
On March 23, 2026, electricity from wind turbines standing 27 miles off Virginia Beach reached the grid for the first time. The moment capped more than…
Beneath every offshore wind farm and oil platform lies a hidden world most people never consider — a vast web of pipelines, anchors, and cables resting…
Organic solar cells have long promised a cheaper, more flexible path to clean energy — but converting sunlight efficiently enough to matter has kept them trailing…
Most of the world’s best offshore wind resources sit beyond the reach of conventional turbines. Waters deeper than about 200 feet — along the US West…
Seventy-five miles off the Norfolk coast, 131 feet beneath the North Sea, a survey crew scanning for unexploded ordnance picked up something unexpected on their instruments:…
Drop a plastic bottle into the recycling bin and you assume it gets a clean second life. Much of it still doesn’t — burned, buried, or…
A 137-mile high-voltage transmission line cutting through the grasslands of Roosevelt and Lea counties sounds like bad news for wildlife. In this corner of eastern New…
Before dawn, black-crowned night herons settle onto floating solar panels still cool from the night air. As daylight comes, double-crested cormorants jostle for position across the…
Water descending from Yosemite National Park through the Sierra Nevada foothills passes through the Moccasin Powerhouse on its way to the taps of 2.7 million San…
Kesterite solar cells have long occupied a frustrating position in renewable energy research. Built from Earth-abundant, non-toxic materials, they look ideal for scalable, sustainable photovoltaics —…
Every day, light pours through office windows and bounces off living-room LEDs — and almost none of that energy is ever captured. A small team of…
Every summer, Colorado’s semi-arid grasslands wage a quiet battle against heat and thirst — a landscape where rainfall routinely falls short of what the grasses need…
For more than a year, the offshore wind industry absorbed blow after blow from the federal government — frozen leases, repealed tax credits, stop-work orders issued…
Wind turbines parked in high winds don’t simply stand still — their blades can still flex, vibrate, and experience aerodynamic loads that engineers need to predict…
