Fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas, have been dominant sources of energy for the past 150 years, supplanting whale oil in the late 19th century as the top energy industry. Their ...

Renewable energy including nuclear power jointly overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year - a historic first, according to new data from the global ...

A natural gas could be a key component of climate mitigation, scientists say. A hidden source of clean energy could power the planet for more than a hundred thousand years if tapped into, according to ...

A new Policy Brief from The Heartland Institute offers a comprehensive evaluation of seven primary electricity generation sources: biomass, coal, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and wind, and ...

Ed Miliband is expected to double the UK’s onshore wind capacity to almost 30 gigawatts - Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Wind turbines have overtaken gas as Britain’s biggest source of electricity as the ...