Energy

Cummins gas generators were launched last year and already their installations power the equivalent of 52,000 homes.  The HSK78G offers reliable power off the g...

After years of deteriorating power lines owned by PG&E, California’s biggest utility, plus months of windy wildfires, warming California is wondering...

A remarkable series of predictions about the future of the grid is emerging from NREL – the National Renewable Energy Lab in the US. Because batteries can...

Real Goods, the California-based original purveyor of off-grid living supplies, has relocated to Ukiah, California. The move follows the companys acquisition by...

Two major wildfires that raged in California for the past ten days are finally contained. But the debate and aftermath will rage for months. California’s ...

After a devastating bushfire, one remote WA farming community takes steps towards a solar solution — and it’s cheaper, safer, and more reliable. The deadl...

As the uptake of electric vehicles (EV) has increased exponentially in the past few years, the concern of what to do with batteries when they reach their end-of...

Now the new bi-directional chargers are coming on the market – off-grid car-owners can charge up in the city and download the power when they get home....

Multi-membrane solar panel uses waste heat to warm water and thereby purify it – Saudi researchers hope to ready it for commercial rollout soon...

Power company PG&E has long been known as a company that puts its shareholders interests ahead of its customers – shady billing practices, low qualit...

By Ken Torino of K-Tor – Human-power expert My story began 15 years ago when I was looking to buy ahuman power generator and had trouble finding one. I was an a...

Its a little known fact that the Marijuana growers of Northern California were amongst the first to use solar panels to improve their crop yields, back in the m...