Energy

Solar, wind, batteries, green hydrogen and power grids

The Energy section of ECOnews covers solar and wind power, offshore wind farms, batteries and energy storage, green hydrogen, nuclear power and power grids. Follow the projects, records and innovations changing how the world produces and uses electricity.

What appears to be a simple supermarket product could be hiding a small energy revolution: a 2.24-kWh battery that costs about $350 and is already attracting attention across Europe

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Across Australia, people are quietly plugging illegal batteries into their apartment walls, and the underground rush to power balconies with the sun is forcing a change few saw coming

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A quiet town in northern Italy could wake to find 14,000 solar panels planted on a field wedged between their homes, and the residents’ revolt exposed something no one expected

By Adrian Villellas

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July 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM

Canada buried a 1,050-ton slab east of Toronto to seat the first grid-scale nuclear reactor a G7 nation has ever built, and how it cools itself breaks every rule

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM

While data centers strain power grids, consume water, and are a source of complaints on land, a San Francisco based company wants to move part of the artificial intelligence boom out to sea, inside floating wind turbines

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM

It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds

By ECONEWS

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July 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM

The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Switzerland has just installed a small solar power plant between the tracks of an active railway line, and what seems impossible is that more than 11,000 trains have already passed over it without interrupting service

By Adrian Villellas

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July 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM

An experiment conducted in Canada has just demonstrated something that sounds incredibly strange: solar panels floating on a frozen pond continued to generate electricity thanks to a waterproof foam and underwater bubbles

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM

An electric car’s used battery does not stop working when the car is no longer in use, and a megafactory in Vancouver wants to give it a second life to power hospitals, data centers, and microgrids

By ECONEWS

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July 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM

China’s massive “electric island” has no blades and doesn’t look like a windmill, but it transmits 1.1 gigawatts of offshore wind power from the Yellow Sea to the power grid

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM

A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen and captured CO2 into renewable gas that flows through actual pipelines

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 6:24 PM

The French wind turbine, which aims to do away with giant towers, promises to bring electricity to farms, islands, and remote areas thanks to a modular 1-kilowatt design that requires no cranes or concrete

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM

The latest trend in solar energy in Europe is no longer focused on rooftops, but on garden fences, and promises to turn a simple property line into a mini power plant

By ECONEWS

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July 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM

BEACON, the $12 ocean current generator Hannah Herbst built at 15 to bring light to coastal communities

By ECONEWS

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July 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A Montana county commissioner wanted to prepare his county in case coal revenues dried up, and voters ousted him from office in a Republican primary that served as a warning to other mining communities

By ECONEWS

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July 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM

FERC gives six US grid operators 60 days to explain how they connect AI data centers without raising household bills

By ECONEWS

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July 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Puerto Rico had a $1 billion federal fund to install solar panels and batteries in vulnerable households, but now much of that money is being diverted to the old power grid

By ECONEWS

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June 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Amazon’s sparkling cloud hides a dirty secret: its AI gulps more water than rivals and still calls itself “efficient

By ECONEWS

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June 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A “floating city” proposal is back with a ship about one mile long designed to hold 80,000 people, and the uncomfortable detail is that it is being pitched as nuclear-powered while funding still decides whether it is real or just renderings

By ECONEWS

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June 20, 2026 at 12:30 PM

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