Scientists building a better battery typically strive for lower cost, lower weight or higher energy density, but Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning former Energy Secretary, just emphasized another metric:
Charging rate.
"If you can put 120 miles in…
May 2018
Power producers are rushing to build natural gas plants and pipelines to replace retiring coal, but in less than 10 years much of that infrastructure will be more expensive to operate than the cost to build new renewables, according to an analysis…
More coal plants are now projected to retire more quickly than experts thought a year ago, according to energy-industry analysts who gathered in Chicago Tuesday.
Three alternative energy sources—wind, solar and natural gas—are expected to divide up…
The Carlyle Group is investing billions in United States infrastructure the government can no longer afford, with particular interest in electric microgrids, a Carlyle executive said in Chicago Monday.
"We think that actually we're in sort of the…
