A three-year drought — and rising electricity demand — has complicated plans to power New York and Massachusetts with Canadian hydropower. New York and Massachusetts bet their energy future on ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Diamond and Carbon Applications (Germany), have developed a buried-growth process for nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centers in diamond using microwave ...

The U.S. has offered $100 million in aid to Cuba as authorities said the island nation's national energy grid suffered a major failure early Thursday that severed power to the island's eastern ...

SAN FRANCISCO—As families settled into their evening routines in late March, cooking dinner on electric stoves and flipping on their TV for the newest binge watch, the state’s energy grid was working ...

In a few short years, the technology industry has transformed places like central Ohio, where farmland is giving way to data centers and computer chip factories. In a few short years, the technology ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Just as Upstate New York residents are trying to catch their breath from the enormous utility bills they got this winter, a new round of rate increases will hike their bills in April.

This interesting "tiny house" isn't actually a house at all. Instead, it's a mobile off-grid office that squeezes two separate workspaces, plus a sleeping area, into its compact frame. The Off-Grid ...

State Grid Corp. of China said it’s accelerating investment in power grids as Beijing pushes to stabilize growth and expand infrastructure spending. The utility reported fixed‑asset investment of 75.7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two-thirds of Cuba, including the capital Havana, were hit by a blackout as the country’s oil reserves dwindled. Cuba’s electrical ...

Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that move power from renewable energy systems to the grid more efficiently.

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is “worsening” and blackout risks are rising for millions of people. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington The ...

In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury the transmission wires underground, where technical issues would be hard to ...