Engineers from the University of Newcastle have come up with a surprisingly simple new energy storage system, built around blocks that store thermal energy like melted chocolate chips in a muffin. The ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping modernize power management and enhance reliability in an increasingly complex electric grid. As the United States ...

PROVIDENCE — After state regulators discovered that Rhode Islanders were drastically overpaying for the delivery of power from America’s first offshore wind farm, National Grid came back with a ...

The Content Grid block displays text and photos in a column or grid layout. It is extremely versatile. Use it to create columns of text, to display a page of photos, or to create ‘teasers’ that link ...

Decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization are the three primary driving forces in the paradigm shift to the new energy economy. Decentralization, in particular, is a result of ongoing ...

The metaphorical ‘War of the Currents’ between AC and DC started by reigning geniuses of the 1880s, George Westinghouse Jr., Nicola Tesla, and Thomas Alva Edison. As we all know, initially three phase ...

The energy transition is underway. It’s not just crucial for climate change that we kick our fossil fuel habit—it will soon be more expensive not to. In the UK, for example, it’ll soon be cheaper to ...

L'Eixample, the neighborhood Ildefons Cerdà created in Barcelona. He saw each block as a close-knit community. Most of us don’t think a whole lot about city blocks. They’re just there, part of the ...