The nation’s power grid is entering a new era of soaring demand – the full extent of which remains uncertain – and energy ...

State lawmakers send Gov. JB Pritzker a plan to increase power in Illinois as demand across the country is hitting ComEd and Ameren utility customers.

German researchers have developed a new solid-state lithium-sulfur battery that reduces electrolyte content and boosts energy ...

Volatile markets do, however, incentivise entrepreneurs to build storage. Battery operators earn money by taking power from ...

Researchers at the NSF-funded DERConnect testbed stand in front of several of the large, mobile batteries being tested as ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike. Known as the Esmeralda 7, the ...

Africa needs energy. Nearly 600 million Africans—half the continent’s population—are without electricity, largely because of the continent’s limited distribution network, and Africans make up the vast ...