In the heart of Paris, an extraordinary experiment in urban living is taking place. Welcome to the Urban Biosphere, a one-of-a-kind apartment designed to pus...

Scientists in Singapore are hoping to perfect a new method of power generation driven largely by shadows, with the hope that it could one day help highly urbanised cities power themselves.

An innovative floating offshore wind turbine prototype was launched in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Instead of a single anchor tower, the approach uses a pyramid base that can also passively orient itself in the direction of the blowing wind.

The device is the size of a water bottle and made of copper, aluminium and other parts worth around $10. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Automated wind-energy system brings portable renewables off-grid

A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found.

Tesla Electric customers in Texas are reporting making as much as $150 a day during the heat waves as Tesla’s...