The village of Oak Park, a suburb west of Chicago, was recently selected from a list of competing volunteer neighborhoods to be the test site for smart grid technology.The project is a joint venture between the Korean Smart Grid Institute and the Institute for Sustainable Energy Development, and ...

Most Americans like clean energy. So when conservatives wage campaigns against clean energy initiatives, they have typically resorted to fronting astroturf groups and paying fake protesters to generate noise.Needing 100 anti-wind protesters by next week and apparently unable to find them, a mysterious firm advertised a “quick and ...

Boris Johnson, London's mayor, arrives at an event in east London on December 4, 2012, wearing a woollen hat. Photograph: Andrew Winning/ReutersThe one thing we can now forecast with near certainty during any cold snap is that a Telegraph writer will use the plunging mercury to breezily state ...

This year has been one of those worst-of-years and best-of-years. In its failures, there are signs of hope.An unprecedented stream of extreme weather events worldwide tragically reminded us that we’re losing the fight against climate change. For the first time since 1988, climate change was totally ignored in ...