PARIS—Many people are set to judge the Paris Climate Conference by the same criteria the Copenhagen talks failed to meet in 2009—whether the 196 nations meeting here in the coming two weeks sign a legally binding treaty to limit greenhouse-gas…
2015
The energy industry is fast embracing the revolutionary potential of renewable energy combined with cheap battery storage, which together can obviate the need for new power plants.
"The combination of those two things—that is truly a killer app,"…
The forecast for solar energy is mostly sunny across the United States, with a chance of a three-year eclipse.
Investors, installers, and customers are hustling to install panels before the federal investment tax credit (ITC) expires in 14 months,…
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk hinted Tuesday the carmaker may launch its own network of shared autonomous cars for users to borrow on demand, but he cautioned the company is not ready to make a formal announcement.
During Tesla's Third Quarter 2015…
First of two stories.
Across North America, utility executives know they're running out of time to plan for an elusive future, yet many are still waiting for that future to tell them what to do.
Utilities seem frozen in the headlights of an onslaught…
It could cost more than $120 billion to protect New York City from rising seas and storm surges expected by the end of this century, according to a Rutgers University expert on climate change effects on sea level.
But the risk to New York is even…
Few have more to lose than automakers from a movement that wants to sweep away most of the cars that are clogging our streets and polluting our air, but many automakers aren't trying to beat the shared mobility revolution—they're trying to join…
Autonomous vehicles could save Americans $1 trillion and prevent a gigaton of carbon emissions, according to the Rocky Mountain Institute, but former New York City Traffic Commissioner Sam Schwartz says he's got something better.
"I think autonomous…
Autonomous vehicles will be in wide use in as little as three years, slipping into traffic before transportation departments and disrupted industries have a chance to prepare, experts said in Chicago today.
"The majority of people I talk to have no…
The Chinese have envisioned using hundreds of thousands of idle electric vehicles as a massive battery to meet peak electric demand in Beijing, allowing them to shutter dirty old coal plants and defer new ones.
But Vehicle-To-Grid technology may be…
