How the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf fared in their crash tests. (Credit: IIHS) The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said today that the C... read more »
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Green chemistry company SiGNa Chemistry has unveiled a new chemical process for generating hydrogen from water, which the company says could solve bot... read more »
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Empa and Flisom&39's flexible CIGS solar cell made on a polymer substrate. (Credit: Empa) Swiss scientists have broken an energy conversion effic... read more »
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Although its short-term funding remains uncertain, the 2-year-old Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program ha... read more »
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The Obama administration yesterday unveiled plans to begin issuing new offshore wind energy leases as soon as next year under an accelerated approva... read more »
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Walgreens will host eVgo stations at 18 of its Houston-area stores. (Credit: eVgo) The eVgo chain of charging stations for electric vehicles will ... read more »
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Progress Energy is moving forward with its plan to spend $500 million to upgrade two of its electric utilities in Florida and the Carolinas to a smar... read more »
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Four-year-old start-up Transphorm is tackling a problem as old as the electricity distribution grid: the energy lost in converting between AC and DC... read more »
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(Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) The newest hybrid from Lexus comes in the form of a low-down hatchback with futuristic side styling, an aggres... read more »
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Investment in clean-technology companies rose in the U.S. last year, garnering $3.98 billion in venture capital, according to a report released yeste... read more »
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I find certainty a little dubious. Somehow, nothing has ever seemed that certain on this earth, so when people--especially scientists or green activi... read more »
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A competition held by nonprofit ImagineH2O highlights the close connection between water and energy. ImagineH2O, a not-for-profit company formed to... read more »
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Illustration of Volvo&39's wireless charging solution for the C30 Electric. (Credit: Volvo) Volvo's electric vehicle technology is about to becom... read more »
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The Supreme Court today rejected a global warming lawsuit against five big power companies, its most important environmental ruling since 2007 and a... read more »
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Control4&39's Energy Management System (EMS) 100 will be used by Cisco in smart-grid deals. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) Cisco Systems has inve... read more »
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It&'s Christmas time for Instapaper fanatics: Developer Marco Arment has finally delivered Instapaper 3.0 for the iPhone and iPad, bringing with it ne... read more »
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While it's unclear how many consumers are willing to pay more for plug-in electric cars, the case for fleet operators is a lot simpler to make, a... read more »
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GreenWave Reality bulb with the NXP chipset. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) NXP Semiconductors has developed chipsets for CFL and LED light bulbs ... read more »
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The U.S. solar power sector grew 67 percent in 2010 but still lagged European markets by a wide margin in installing solar systems, the industry's ... read more »
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GE&39's Nucleus software displays real-time and historical energy use. (Credit: GE) General Electric has created a Home Energy Management busine... read more »
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