TheDailyConversation Click here to view the embedded video. Very soon, we will live in a world without power cables. Thanks to innovation that was developed by MIT in 2007 and is now being commercialized by a company...

1.6 billion people in the world don’t have access to electricity, says the founder of a company called “MPOWERD”. These folks and another 1.5 billion people on lousy electrical grids often use kerosene-powered lamps to see at...

China just released official statistics on Q4 2012 GDP and other measures. GDP rose 7.9 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter, slightly ahead of economists’ estimates of 7.8 percent expansion. Growth was up from 7.4 percent in...

 SolarDaily Scientists are reporting development of a new transparent solar cell, an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. Their report appears in...

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — A stagnation in electricity output that fanned speculation China’s slowdown is intensifying may instead be evidence of an accelerated transition to a more services-based economy. The government will release information on July electricity...

TEDTalentSearch Click here to view the embedded video. (Smart Planet) One night, 14-year-old Raymond Wang lay in bed trying to come up with a design for a science project. The rain was slapping the roof of his...

We’ve spent the past half hour playing around with the Beta version of Enerdat, a new interactive chart site from the EIA showing data about the U.S. electricity sector (via Condor Options’ Jared Woodward).  It’s still very...

NEW YORK (AP) — A plunge in the price of natural gas has made it cheaper for utilities to produce electricity. But the savings aren’t translating to lower rates for customers. Instead, U.S. electricity prices are going...

Electric cars are touted for being more environmentally friendly than petroleum fueled cars. But make no mistake.  Electricity is not without its carbon foot print. The U.S. Energy Information Association: just published it’s Annual Energy Outlook (AEO2012). ...