“The Equity Resiliency program represents a first-in-the-nation precedent to link resilient power and public health, a possible turning point in the protection of medically vulnerable people from climate induced disasters, such as wildfires and heat waves, and related utility shutoffs or brownouts...

Home with solar and a Tesla Powerwall energy storage system. Credit: Tesla. By Rob Uek, Contributor The electric utility industry has been buffeted by two recent trends that threaten to upend the profitability, and in some cases the future viability of, those companies that are slow to adapt to a ne...

Image by PIXERATTI from Pixabay By Christopher Martin and Naureen S. Malik, Bloomberg It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again. The state’s generators made a killing this week as unrelenting heat sent electricity prices skyrocketing to unprecedented levels, briefly blowing pas...

New textile-based solar cells developed by Fraunhofer researchers, semitrailers could soon be producing the electricity needed to power cooling systems or other onboard equipment. In short, textile-based solar cells could soon be adding a whole new dimension to photovoltaics, complementing the use o...