Energy

SYDNEY, 29 Oct – POWER USERS IN AUSTRALIA paid for a $40 million substation as part of $1 billion spent on gold-plating electricity infrastructure —...

Useful article on producer.com which explains the math of power consumption – what is a kilowatt hour exactly? And goes through a checklist of energy-cons...

Living off-grid, I get questions from time to time, mainly about how we live, some even think we must live in a cave and eat dirt and wear skins…  I said ...

China may be the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases but it’s also the biggest green economy. Now Beijing has asked local governments across the n...

Watch out for Shannon Miller and her company EtaGen. Her generators may soon be providing a power solution in places with little sun or wind. It’s hard to radic...

BioLite stove products are making camping and cooking with wood more eco-friendly, and providing an off-grid power source for charging phones, lights, and other...

Here is an idea that ought to be included in Revolution, the new JJ Webber series, on NBC. When I was writing my book OFF THE GRID I travelled all over visiting...

Be Warned. The World Economic Forum has launched their Energy for Society initiative, “which seeks to engage citizens in a discussion about the future of ...

As China expands its presence in Africa, a new wave of renewable energy companies are bringing off-grid innovation to the continent while Western competitors st...

A hunting lodge in Maine with two small solar panels, some old used car batteries,a quarter mile of wire and careful management. An old-timer explains how he do...

The makers of the ubiquitous Swiss Army knife have already branched out into watches, camping gear and even a motorised bike – now Wenger have extended th...

Just a few days ago 10 per cent of the world’s population faced a series of power cuts – India’s Northern and Eastern grids came to halt and 600 million people ...