As electronics demand higher energy density, one component has proved challenging to shrink: the capacitor. Making a smaller ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

The San Diego County Water Authority has an unusual plan to use the city’s scenic San Vicente Reservoir to store solar power so it’s available after sunset. The project, and others like it, could help ...

A group of scientists at Aalborg University in Denmark has conceived a new sizing approach for combining PV power generation with hybrid energy storage from lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors ...

A decade ago, the state’s largest electric utility — Georgia Power — took its first, major step toward a future powered by the sun when it installed thousands of solar panels on 150 acres outside the ...