As part of a series of articles on smart homes, the Verge visits an energy-efficient home in the southern California desert that’s “part of California’s first planned smart, solar-powered residential microgrid community.”
A surprisingly small number o…

The Ecoomist asks: How can we “green” the high-temperature chemical processes in industries like steelmaking or the production of chemical or cement. “Because it is tricky or impossible to produce such temperatures for some industrial processes using e…

“If everyone has an electric car, will the electric grid be able to support all those cars being recharged?”
That’s the question being answered this week in the Washington Post’s “Climate Coach” newsletter:

We can already see a preview of our electri…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: It could be a new world record, although no one involved wants to talk about it. In the south of France, a collaboration among 35 countries has been birthing one of the largest and most ambi…

Longtime Slashdot reader WindBourne writes: “A shroud of smoke has sent solar power generation in parts of the eastern US plummeting by more than 50% as wildfires rage in Canada,” reports Bloomberg. “Solar farms powering New England were producing 56% …

This week the Linux Foundation announced the publication of The Open Source Opportunity for Microgrids: Five Ways to Drive Innovation and Overcome Market Barriers for Energy Resilience. “The research informs readers about microgrids — groups of d…

Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has developed a concept to install solar panels between train tracks, using a specially built train to “unroll” the panels during the night when fewer trains are running. Fast Company reports: As wild as it all sound, Sun-Ways a…

North America has emerged as the fastest-growing market for new battery cell manufacturing factories, driven by incentives provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to a report by Clean Energy Associates. Electrek …

The US Department of Energy has announced that eight American companies working on nuclear fusion energy will receive $46 million in government funding to pursue pilot plants aimed at generating power from fusion reactions. Reuters reports: The Energy …

An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
Japan and JAXA, the country’s space administration, have spent decades trying to make it possible to beam solar energy from space. In 2015, the nation made a breakthrough when JAXA scientists succes…