Oil has brought great wealth and the nation’s lowest unemployment rate to North Dakota. Soaring homelessness, crime, and …
New Energy
An Energy Boom That Could Last
For a bursting oil region like Texas, experience is an asset
A Paler Shade of Green
After years of squabbling, can Washington declare a truce on energy policy?
Blackout: 1 Billion Live Without Electric Light
Nearly one-fifth of the globe can’t turn on the lights
Beyond the Keystone Pipeline
Why Obama’s alternative-energy agenda may be his biggest legacy
Grid Politics
Solar power is getting cheaper—and Big Electric is fighting back
A Bump on the Road to Green
Don’t worry about Fisker’s failures. Overall, clean-energy subsidies are working fine
Long Live the Lightbulb
Big Government has made it better
Can Energy-consumption Data Change Consumer Behavior?
Do you know how much energy you consume every 15 minutes? Most would say that’s a hard — if not impossible — question to answer, but San Francisco-based utility provider Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) now has access to that information for 30,000 of its residential customers, thanks to its “SmartMeter” program. PG&E’s …
Sandy Ends the Silence
Even if politicians ignore climate change, the rest of us can’t
(Almost) Everyone Loves Solar
Americans want more power from the sun, but GOP politicians don’t. What’s an industry to do?
None of the Above
Does either candidate really believe in an “all of the above” energy policy?