This order will enhance competition and promote greater efficiency in the nation’s electric wholesale markets The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last week voted to remove barriers to the ...

Researchers in Spain have designed a pumped thermal energy storage system that uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a heat pump and a heat engine. The proposed system is claimed to achieve an ...

The electric power grid is facing a number of challenges from the technological change across the power system and increasing severity and frequency of natural and man-made threats. As the generation ...

If combined with both thermal and electrical storage, PV-driven heat pumps in buildings could support higher self-consumption, according to a study by University of Catania scientists. The researchers ...

Remember the transformation cellphones made to the communications industry? For the telecom industry — and for all of us customers — life before cellphones was entirely different from life after.

Jonathan Radcliffe has worked with Highview Power, a company specialising in energy storage technology. He receives funding from EPSRC, Innovate-UK and the European Commission. Since I began writing ...

The latest developments in energy storage promise a greener future for the electrical industry. With more effective and reliable interaction between renewable resources and the grid, greenhouse gas ...

An aerial photo of Hoover Dam with the Lake Mead reservoir behind. The white lines along the shore indicate the dropping water level of the reservoir as years of less than average rain fall have ...