Electric and self-driving vehicle technologies are combining to transform human transportation in the digital era. While many cities are providing support by expanding their electric charging infrastructure, one Canadian city...

Shining the light on solar energy is one of the main goals of the Illinois Solar Energy Association ’s (ISEA) new educational tools. The ISEA recently launched several educational tools to help the public better understand co...

At the end of July, the seventh annual Science of Smart Cities (SoSC) program wrapped up at New York University's (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering. This year's four-week program focused on four broad areas—energy, wireless...

Unlike renewables and natural gas, which are on the rise nationally, nuclear energy faces numerous challenges that are forcing the industry to contract. However, the industry is defying that trend in one region. According to...

Each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promotes a "Safe + Sound Week" to encourage businesses, employees and organizations to increase their awareness of workplace safety and health. This year's "...

Increasing numbers of small town governments and businesses are choosing to power themselves with renewable energy, and many of these projects are aided by government-guaranteed loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (...

Last Thursday, Aug. 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a freeze on auto emission standards at 2020 levels and proposed to revoke Californi...

In late July, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said, last summer, Russian hackers gained access to power company control rooms, according to The Wall Street Journal . On March 15, DHS and the Federal Bureau of...

As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continues to push for employers to report workplace injuries and illnesses through the new online portal , it has issued a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) i...

In a state that has led the nation in the movement toward greater reliance on renewable energy, Los Angeles itself has been a leader. Just last year, the Los Angeles Department of Water of Power (LADWP) announced that it had...

The battle is on between the telecom giants to advance their 5G networks. On Monday, T-Mobile US named Nokia to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear. Nokia will provide T-Mobile with its complete end...

In June, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the results of a study investigating a group of new LEDs claiming efficacies exceeding 200 lumens per watt (LPW). While all the LEDs performed within 12 percent of their s...

Last week, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will move to rescind California's authority to set its own emission standards fo...

The International Code Council (ICC), the Solar Rating and Certification Corp. (ICC-SRCC) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) have teamed up to release the 2018 International Solar Energy Provisions (ISEP). Th...

Living in rural areas has a quiet, slow-paced appeal compared with the hustle and bustle of the city, but the slower-paced life also comes with a unique set of challenges. Not the least of these is the cost of electricity. Ac...

With the increase in customer generation, such as solar power and microgrids, as well as the continued focus on energy efficiency, electric utilities' profits have sagged. That is, not only are utilities losing revenue as a r...

Government often has been the leader and the catalyst in the movement toward renewable energy. At the same time, government has faced its challenges. In 2017, the city of Atlanta joined the ranks of major American cities comm...

As part of its journey to toward total carbon neutrality, the City of St. Paul, Minn., has set a goal to make all public buildings carbon-neutral by 2030 and all private buildings carbon-neutral by 2050. Other efforts on its...

In the past few years, there has been an explosion of customer-owned and -sited renewable energy generation (called distributed energy resources, or DER), such as residential rooftop solar, larger solar installations (on comm...

The sun almost always shines in Los Angeles, but it never seems to get too hot, even in the dog days of summer. This fourth of July holiday, the sun was much less forgiving, and the local utility struggled to keep up. Several...