Energy & Green Tech

Residential solar power saves less energy than expected

Imagine a household that consumes 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month. Then they install solar panels on their roof that generate 500 kilowatt hours of electricity per month on average. How much should their consumption ...

Energy & Green Tech

The role of energy density for grid-scale batteries

Because the sun does not shine at night but all our screens do, we need energy storage to shift solar energy production during the day to when it is needed in the evening. To cope with this intermittence of renewables, we ...

Energy & Green Tech

Harvesting light to grow food and clean energy together

People are increasingly trying to grow both food and clean energy on the same land to help meet the challenges of climate change, drought and a growing global population that just topped 8 billion. This effort includes agrivoltaics, ...

Energy & Green Tech

Four ways to reduce your household energy use, proven by research

A particularly cold September has given us a glimpse of the winter to come. The cold will bite hardest for the 13% of England's households that are already in fuel poverty. As the energy crisis intensifies, this is expected ...

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