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Energy is the driver of any advanced economy, and fossil fuels are a key part of US energy needs. For decades this has mostly meant oil, but natural gas now is seen as a plentiful, relatively clean resource. The USA ...

A failure of the power grid left 70 percent of the nation of Venezuela without electricity in early September. Venezuela was the world’s eighth-largest net oil exporter in 2010, and, the same year, had the second-largest natural gas reserves in the ...

A major cyber attack will one day disrupt life as we know it in the United States. So says former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who made the comments during her finals days in the post. The then-Obama ...

Our sun provides an abundance of free power, yet we don’t even use 1 percent of it. Even if everyone were to put solar power on their homes, we still would use only a miniscule fraction of the power that ...

If you live in the United States and are reading this, chances are you have a good-sized refrigerator. This is where you store much of your food, putting it in the fridge because it’s convenient and you don’t have to ...

The documentary Take Back Your Power details not just the security concerns often associated with a smart grid system, but the battle being waged by common citizens who do not want the new techno gadgets installed at their homes. The ...

Many of America’s largest corporations now believe the electric grid is unreliable and are quietly developing the capability to operate without it. Companies in a wide variety of industries are scrambling to produce their own energy. Retailers, technology companies, and ...

Passive solar is a great way to heat any home, lowering energy bills and providing some heating capacity for any power outage disaster. If one is fortunate enough to have solar heating, they can be sure that they will always ...

The usage of solar power is growing around the world, and that includes the remote jungles of Burma. The leader of a humanitarian worker in Burma tells Off the Grid News that without solar power, his work would be much ...

Aug. 28, 2013 Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials. An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, ...