A Federal court in Dallas, TX is playing host to a lawsuit against US Virgin Islands-based power company Glacial Energy, which claims the company has secretly funneled $20 million of revenue from electricity customers into ‘blood diamond’ mining operations in Africa. Glacial Energy is a retail electric provider, offering commercial electricity services in states where Read More…

Carbon is not only the most common element and the basis for all matter that we know, it’s also the root of harmful pollution and environmental woes.  In the spirit of ‘fighting fire with fire’, an aspiring research team from Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory has mapped out a method by which to turn CO2 from Read More…

Having previously enduring stifling heat with sunny skies, Kansas City, MO was not expecting a sudden summer storm to tear through the town, cluttering roadways with debris, downing power lines and knocking out power to about 50,000 homes on Sunday. Emergency crews stayed busy, mostly responding to the dangerous downed power lines in the area Read More…

As the blistering heat wave continues to linger across the country, sweltering citizens are cranking up all varieties of cooling systems. The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), an electric reliability and coordination organization in Arkansas, is reporting record numbers for electricity demand in the region. The record-breaking regional electricity demand reached a peak of 54,949 megawatts Read More…

Harvesting the ocean’s power for electricity isn’t a new concept, but a new tide-tapping ship is making waves at the forefront of the renewable energy industry. A European R&D organization called Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI) is the brains behind the new vessel, dubbed simply the “Wave Crawler”. The goal of the project is Read More…