Total Eclipse: Oil Giant Sees its Future in Electricity Sensing a peak in demand for crude oil, France’s Total is betting it can also produce and sell electricity. It is investing in solar panels to produce energy, batteries to store it and utilities to deliver it.

People are zapping their brains with electricity hoping to enhance creativity and intelligence

How Would Your City Cope Without Electricity? A new report demonstrates just how much of a city's modern infrastructure relies on the electricity grid.

Crimea Has No Electricity For The Third Day In A Row

Blackout fears as factories are paid NOT to use electricity The cost of National Grid buying in power jumps by 4,000%

World's Second Largest Source of Electricity Is Now Renewables Electricity generation from renewable sources has overtaken natural gas to become the second largest source of electricity worldwide, the IEA has announced.

How Much Room Do We Need To Supply The Entire World With Solar Electricity? In 2009, the total global electricity consumption was 20,279,640 GWh. The sun creates more energy than that in one hour. The tricky part is collecting that energy and converting it into useful electricity with solar panels. How much area would need t Read more ... o be covered with solar panels in order to capture…

Why Your Electricity Bill Keeps Going Up Your electricity bill is the highest it’s been since 2008 – and it’s likely to rise again this year. Residential electricity prices increased dramatically in most areas of the country in 2014, with the average U.S. residential price climbing 3. Read more ... 1 percent compared to 2013, according to newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In some parts of the country such as the Pacific Coast, the hike in electricity prices in 2014 was much lower than the national average at 1.3 percent – while in New England, it was a whopping 9.9 percent. The increase is due mostly to the electricity industry’s major upgrades to its systems, especially to its transmission and distribution infrastructure.

Microbes Turn Pee Into Electricity Humans, like all living things, produce a lot of waste, but scientists are beginning to show us that it doesn't need to end there. In terms of trash waste, Sweden burns more than two million tons of the stuff annually—almost 50% of the garbage prod Read more ... uced by the country—in order to generate electricity…

The Flying Boy Experiment Entertained Audiences By Electrifying a Kid In the late 1700s scientists were making great strides in the manipulation of electricity and the public wanted in on the fun. Demonstrations of electricity were one of the most popular events of the age. For the audiences members, they were fun and Read more ... amazing. But for the boys in them, there were just painful.