An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:

Nearly any material can be used to turn the energy in air humidity into electricity, scientists found in a discovery that could lead to continuously producing clean energy with little po…

Hyundai Motor and LG Energy have announced they will build a $4.3 billion electric battery plant as part of Hyundai’s new electric vehicle assembly plant in southeast Georgia. From a report: The companies will split the investment, starting production …

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), investment in clean energy is set to surpass spending on fossil fuels in 2023, with solar projects expected to outpace oil production for the first time. Reuters reports: Annual investment in renewabl…

“Driving an electric vehicle in Texas is soon to become more expensive,” reports Gizmodo:

Governor Greg Abbott signed a law (SB 505) on May 13 instituting new fees for registering and owning EVs in the state. Under the bill, electric car owners will …

Dublin-based company Gazelle Wind Power has developed a modular floating offshore wind turbine design that it claims is more affordable than traditional designs. The Register reports: While it still has to be anchored to the seafloor, Gazelle’s design …

CNET explores the potential of “marine energy,” starting with “an ambitious endeavor nearing completion off the coast of Oregon, where 7 miles of conduit were laid under the floor of the Pacific Ocean using pioneering horizontal drilling techniques.”

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775 million people around the world didn’t have electricity last year, according to the International Energy Agency. But the Associated Press points out that’s changing in some of the world’s most remote places — thanks to off-grid solar systems….

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A team of researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Milan recently created a fully rechargeable battery using nontoxic edible components. This is probably the world’s first batter…

A Norwegian company named ENRX “wants to inductively charge electric vehicles with 200 kW while driving on a section of highway in Florida,” according to the “electric mobility industry” news site electrive.com.

“A one-mile section of a four-lane hig…

Friday Bill Gates visited Kemmerer, Wyoming (population: 2,656) — where a coal plant was shutting down after 50 years. But Gates was there “to celebrate the latest step in a project that’s been more than 15 years in the making: designing and buil…