Energy

Google announced that it will purchase enough renewable energy to match 100% of its operations in 2017 in hopes that regulated utilities will eventually offer better options.

According to the United Nations, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, leading many—from engineers to political leaders—to concentrate on developing smart-city initiatives.

Sponsored by: Texas Instruments People-sensing and people-counting systems help fine-tune HVAC usage, which in turn can lead to substantial energy savings.

Digi International's ConnectCore for i.MX6UL Starter Kit for the i.MX6UL system-on-module helps speed up development of smart and secure connected devices.

Advances in supercapacitors are delivering better-than-ever energy-storage options. In some cases, they can compete against more-popular batteries in a range of markets.

When Tesla Motors revealed its plan to buy solar panel maker SolarCity, the thread tying them together was battery storage. The idea, according to chief executive Elon Musk, is to combine solar panels with Tesla’s stationary Powerwall batteries...

In a surprise reshuffling of the market for advanced semiconductors, Infineon Technologies said that it had struck a deal to buy Wolfspeed, a division of Cree making power and radio frequency chips...