If you built a potato-powered clock as a child, you know plants can generate electricity. But scientists are now developing sophisticated methods to harness this power on a much larger scale. The ...

Forecasting electricity demand in buildings is now more accurate with Group Encoding (GE), a new method that uses only existing device operation data. Developed by researchers at the Institute of ...

Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat.

Today, the “green” movement is exacerbating the unsustainable extraction of the earth’s resources of minerals and metals just to support the generation of electricity. Without replenishment of those ...

The European Union (EU)'s solar and wind power generation surpassed fossil fuel generation for the first time last year.

In its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released earlier this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected that total U.S. electricity generation from the ...

As efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensify, natural gas is anticipated to maintain its critical role in the U.S. electricity generation mix. Its abundant availability and reliability make ...

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a novel Group Encoding method that accurately forecasts electricity demand using only On/Off device data from building energy systems. Tested ...