There’s folk wisdom in just about every culture that teaches about renewable energy — things like “make hay while the sun shines”. But as an industrial culture, we want to make hay 24/7 and not be at ...

Researchers from Canada have analyzed the performances of an aboveground compressed air energy storage system (CAES) with both an experimental setup and a numerical model. A quasi-steady-state ...

Israeli company BaroMar is preparing to test a clever new angle on grid-level energy storage, which it says will be the cheapest way to stabilize renewable grids over longer time scales. This ...

Hydrostor – a Canadian company with patented advanced compressed air energy storage technology (A-CAES) designed to provide long-duration energy storage – has signed a binding agreement with Perilya ...

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The tricky thing about generating electricity is that for the most part, you pretty much have to use it or lose it.

Keith McGrane, CEO of Corre Energy (left) with Tobias Panse, Senior Vice President, Industrial Steam Turbines and Generators at Siemens Energy (right). (Credit: PR Newswire) Corre Energy and Siemens ...

This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and ...

For years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has championed the potential of advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES), and now the feds are putting a whole bunch of money where their mouth is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Llewellyn King has been a player in the energy space since 1970. It has become, in electric terms, the elephant in the room. That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Korean researchers have unlocked a new way to bank clean energy and turn it back into power on demand. Scientists at the Korea ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. As the global energy system adds more intermittent renewables, ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...