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 ...

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

Renewable energy is energy that comes from sources that are readily replenishable on short-timescales. Examples of these are solar radiation, wind, and biomass. Renewable energy intermittency and ...

Although it rarely exists on its own on Earth, it can be produced using clean energy to split essentially inexhaustible water molecules, producing only oxygen as a by-product. However, 96 per cent ...

To put this energy to more use than the data transmission it was designed for is the challenge of wireless harvesting. See electromagnetic hypersensitivity. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

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 ...