It’s no secret. Any store that sells food uses a lot of energy — averaging 51.5 kilowatt-hours per square foot, more than any other commercial building. Convenience stores use even more, consuming as ...

Concrete is quietly being reimagined as a giant rechargeable battery, turning walls, foundations and roadways into hidden reservoirs of clean power. By embedding energy storage directly into the built ...

Amazon online sales, their acquisition of Whole Foods and the recent opening of Amazon Go stores leave traditional store owners wondering how to compete against one of the world’s largest retailers.

A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon ...

Researchers at Lancaster University have developed a new material that can store energy for months, and potentially years, at a time. The material can be activated by light, and then release the ...

Despite major advances in the field of renewable energy generation, we still have yet to find a particularly scalable way to store all that power — especially from solar and wind — which vary greatly ...

Harvesting the sun’s energy has always been an exciting challenge. As technology races forward, scientists are finding new ways to both collect and store that energy more efficiently. A recent ...

This is because storing solar energy and transporting it from sunny regions to places with limited sunlight is still costly and inefficient. However, a team of researchers has now shown that sunlight ...

Imagine having a fridge-sized box in your home that not only generates and stores electricity on-site, but heats and cools the house, provides hot water and even churns out oxygen and hydrogen to use ...

Seamus Garvey is the Founding Chairman of the newly established International CAES Alliance, which aims to raise awareness of the potential and power of CAES. Electricity generated by fossil fuels is ...