DEFINITION: Energy that is generated close to where it will be used, rather than at an industrial plant and sent through the national grid. Decentralised systems typically use renewable energy sources ...

DEFINITION: A low-risk method of financing and delivering energy efficiency improvements and renewable projects for businesses that lack the funds, technical experience and man power needed for such ...

The processes used to create energy. They increasingly are focused on micropower, where individual companies are creating their own power plants for their own use. See micropower. THIS DEFINITION ...

Dark energy is a mysterious force making the universe fly apart faster and faster. Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s, two ...

Ecovoltaics is, broadly, the integration of solar projects with activities that provide agricultural ecosystem benefits – for ...

Converting the radio transmissions in the air into power. All wireless signals comprise energy and data, the latter derived by the way the radio waves are modulated. Wireless energy harvesting ...

Hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe and the most abundant, so on paper, hydrogen fuel has a lot going for it. Although it rarely exists on its own on Earth, it can be produced using ...

Power prices are going up another 9 per cent. The Energy Minister has blamed increased breakdowns at coal fired generators for the price rise. “Not a day in the last two years have we had a coal ...