Energy
Power Sources
Why Fracking is Coming to the UK
Huge sources of Shale Gas forced through by Politicians, Financiers and Energy bosses...
Vermont Utility tries to bill for off-grid power
Letter to Vermon Times-Argus exposes grasping power Utility “It really never ceases to amaze me what corporate America will try to do. Idaho Public Utilit...
New gizmo lets grid-connected renewables keep working during outages
Imagine you are completely self-sufficient for energy yet still connected to the grid. Here at www.off-grid.net we call that state being “off-grid ready” becaus...
Softbank, Bloom Energy take Off-Grid to Corporate Japan
TOKYO (Nikkei)–Softbank Corp. (9984) will team up with a U.S. fuel cell developer to provide the off-grid power source to corporate clients in Japan, comp...
Off-gridders to get government subsidy
UK householders could get hundreds of pounds a year for heating their homes from renewable technologies, the Government said today. The payments under the renew...
Nevada Energy ups prices and bullies customers
CARSON CITY — NV Energy is divesting from coal and investing in natural gas and renewable energy. The announcement spurred fear of price raises. Nevadans alread...
New Storage Inverters for US Military Micro-Grid Demo
Sustainable Energy Technologies, a manufacturer of intelligent power electronics for decentralized generation and storage systems, reported that a contractor ha...
Microgrids booming as Grid crumbles
Welcome to the Age of the Microgrid – islands of power and self-sufficiency. What is a microgrid? In simple terms, it is a local network of diverse power ...
Bringing power to Africa – at a cost to the planet
President Obama is in Africa – promising countries billions of dollars to help the continent’s economies grow. But the way that the tax dollars will be sp...
Aussie power bills hurting families
VICTORIA STATE – AUSTRALIA – The average annual electricity bill in the Shepparton region is $2638 compared to the state average of $2210.57 and nat...
Power being decentralised in Germany
Perhaps its because of the political structure, with powerful local government, but Germany’s centralised energy system is dissolving. Germany’s pow...
Triple digit heat this weekend – cities to suffer most
Record-breaking temepratures, but will it reach 135 degrees in Death Valley to break the record set exactly one hundred years ago?...