Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, has been appointed to succeed his father as the new head of the Islamic republic. The younger Khamenei was named supreme leader ...

Scientists at the Energy and Bioproducts Institute at Aston University are to start a project to convert Indonesia's unwanted rice straw into low-cost energy on a commercial scale. Each year the ...

Thanks to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and remarkable electrical and optical properties, carbon-based nanomaterials are finding more and more applications across electronics, energy ...

FuelCell Energy, Inc. a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable power plants using renewable and other fuels for commercial, industrial, government, and utility customers, has ...

Oil and gas giants have spent $5.6 billion on sports sponsorship through some 205 accords, said a study by research group New Weather Institute released on Wednesday that describes the outlays as ...

An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year. The ...

The perilous plunges in some of the Asian stock markets, with Shanghai down 44 percent this year and Vietnam down over 60 percent from its highs, should have put the final nail in the coffin of the ...

Researchers in Taiwan are designing a computer for pedal cyclists that tells them when to change gear to optimize the power they develop while maintaining comfort. The system is described in the ...

GE Energy's fuel-flexible turbine technology has been selected for the expansion of the world's largest COREX combined-cycle power plant at the Baoshan Iron and Steel Company (Baosteel) complex in ...

GE Energy has signed a carbon sequestration alliance agreement with Schlumberger Carbon Services to accelerate the use of "cleaner coal" technology. The agreement aligns GE's experience in integrated ...

Federal regulators pushed a major high-voltage transmission line one step closer to construction on Monday, praising its stated goal of increasing clean power. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ...

China Oilfield Services, a subsidiary of energy giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), was set to buy all shares in Norwegian firm Awilco Offshore after getting the go-ahead from ...