MEDFORD, Mass.--In this densely populated city outside Boston without a farm in sight, agriculture researchers are engineering corn and other crops ... read more »
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(Credit: PowerTrekk) With the increasing number of tech gadgets we carry around, even on hiking trips, having a reliable power source is a serious... read more »
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President Barack Obama with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his November 2010 visit to India, during which the joint clean-energy R&D cent... read more »
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There's a small cadre of companies trying to crack into the wind power business with a seemingly improbable approach: making machines that work in l... read more »
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BOSTON--Many green-tech start-ups are formed with the hopes of bringing a scientific discovery from a university lab to market. Digital Lumens has t... read more »
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First came VentureBeat&'s scoop on the Model S prototype&'s completion. Then came Tesla&'s trifecta of professionally-edited videos showing off the en... read more »
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This black, gooey material developed at MIT is the basis of a new design meant to boost battery energy density tenfold. (Credit: MIT) Instead of ... read more »
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Seattle Seahawks President Peter McLoughlin checks out a Solyndra solar array on the roof of Qwest Field. (Credit: Solyndra/Corky Trewin) The Seat... read more »
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An electric mini and a plug-in hybrid charge up. (Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET ) Electric vehicles will figure prominently at the upcoming LA Au... read more »
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By far, the biggest danger from the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant is to the workers who are trying to control a still-volatile s... read more »
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A survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration confirms what most of have seen first-hand: electronic gadgets are using more and more energy... read more »
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Next-generation battery packs for the future Chevy Volts could have 50 to 100 percent more battery life. (Credit: GM) General Motors is looking ahe... read more »
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(Credit: OPower) Americans who receive meter data on their home energy use reduce consumption on average by 1.8 percent after the first year. Th... read more »
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BOSTON--Among green-building cognoscenti, the Passive House standard is setting a new bar for architects and designers making eco-friendly buildings... read more »
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It took awhile, but Panasonic has announced that it will finally make Sanyo a wholly owned subsidiary. The company said it plans to acquire the re... read more »
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The newly inaugurated Wind Technology Testing Center. (Credit: Matt Bennett/Massachusetts Governor's Office) Boston is now home to the world's lar... read more »
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Ciris Energy today said it raised a series B round to build its first commercial plant for converting underground coal to natural gas. (Credit: C... read more »
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Xtreme Power&39's utility-scale energy storage units store energy and can be used to regulate the ebb and flow of intermittent energy sources lik... read more »
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A Department of Energy project will test how refrigerator-size fuel cells fit a niche in the energy system of serving up heat and electricity to bus... read more »
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