Researchers in the Netherlands have simulated a residential energy system combining PV, solar thermal, and PV-thermal panels with aquifer thermal energy storage and a heat pump, achieving a seasonal ...

Simply put, heat pumps are designed to take thermal energy (heat) from one medium and give it to another. Your fridge, for instance, takes heat from the air inside and pumps it outside, cooling the ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

Heat pumps electrify your heating and cooling to be more efficient. New technology could solve one of their lingering problems. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy ...

Instead, Ivanpah has become a cautionary example about timing, technology bets, politics, and the unforgiving realities of ...

Researchers at Politecnico di Torino in Italy are testing how latent heat thermal storage (LHTS) could be used in combination with rooftop PV to achieve nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB). NZEBS are ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...

Julie Tighe is the president of the League of Conservation Voters, based in Albany. Alberto Bianchetti is the regional director of external and customer affairs for National Grid’s Central New York ...

The Department of Energy is investing $33 million into nine projects, including an effort to use “concentrating solar thermal” tech to produce steam for a brewery. The US is continuing its ...

The Microsoft Thermal Energy Center, a groundbreaking geothermal heating and cooling system that serves the buildings of the tech giant’s 72-acre East Campus Modernization outside Seattle, was truly ...