Microsoft is offering its data center lithium-ion battery banks to help stabilize electricity from wind farms in Ireland. The method could do away with 'spinning reserve' or standby excess capacity.
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Samsung has released SmartThings Energy, a tool to give real-time visibility into your home's electricity utilization in order to help reduce usage and cost, built into the SmartThings ecosystem.
Google has devised a new tool that takes advantage of solar energy. Called "Project Sunroof," it measures sunlight, and calculates how much it would cost to install a solar panel on a house's roof.
Data centers could be mankind's most wasteful invention since the Hummer. By running at full power 24/7, they're wasting more energy than you'll use in a lifetime, and that's just for idling.
If you love your gadgets and most of us do then this is a scary development for every owner of a device that requires a power source. According to the Wall Street Journal the Electicity...
Sony today announced the development of a bio battery that generates electricity from carbohydrates (sugar) utilizing enzymes as its catalyst, through the application of power generation principles found in living organisms. Test cells of this...
Samsung, the world's largest memory chip maker, was forced to partially halt production due to an electrical mishap in a factory today. According to spokewoman Lee Soo-jeong, a spark in an electrical transformer led to...
The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals...
Fraser Armstrong, Ph.D. and his research team at Oxford University have managed to develop a revolutionary bio fuel cell which promises clean and renewable energy. The bio fuel cell contains two electrodes that are covered...
