Advocates say these local energy systems could help communities weather disasters and reduce strain on the electric grid.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventeen days after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, tearing down power lines, destroying water mains, and ...

On September 21, 2017, one day after a Category 4 hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico, Carlos Velázquez glimpsed a dark island. For more than a decade, Velázquez had worked to make Puerto Rico’s vulnerable ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers have shown that microgrids equipped with solar-plus-storage systems can maintain an average levelized cost of energy (LCOE) below $0.30/kWh and limit ...

Utility services for Native Americans can be problematic. Tribes across the United States report pricier electric bills, more frequent outages and a higher percentage of homes with no electricity at ...

What’s the best way to ration solar-generated electricity in communities whose power supply wanes as the sun sets? What new technologies can help customers who struggle to pay their home heating bills ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, Duke Energy has studied the threats that climate change poses to its power grid. It has produced tomes forecasting the ...

Climate change is fueling more floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme storms across the United States. As a result, aging power grids are being pushed beyond their limits, sometimes with deadly ...

The use of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells as backup power generation in solar microgrids could drive down costs and improve efficiency, according to an international group of researchers.

When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. There, nestled in the mountains on the midwestern side of the island, a combination of ...

It’s Thursday, July 21, and hundreds of solar microgrids are coming to Nigeria. A new program from Husk Power Systems, a Colorado-based company that installs off-grid power systems in the developing ...