Energy and Climate Change

Solarize Missoula has gathered four of Missoula’s 11 active solar installation companies and worked up a group pricing offer for anyone willing to consider adding solar energy to their home power system.

Officials with Idaho’s solar energy industry say they want to pay taxes on the energy they produce, not property taxes — a system that already applies to other renewable energy developers.

Bill Gates is kicking off initiatives in both the public and private sphere to fund clean energy innovation and help combat climate change.

All in all, the future for solar energy in Montana is looking bright, but there are policy decisions that could derail Montana’s momentum.

Stanford scientists have discovered how to make the electrical wiring on top of solar cells nearly invisible to incoming light.

The lithium-air battery is the holy grail of energy storage only better.

"It’s the single most significant thing that cities can do in order to reduce carbon emissions."

Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week’s high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging tens of billions of dollars for research and development.

He believes the discovery can provide a new way to power mobile devices such as sensors and smartphones by capturing the otherwise wasted mechanical energy from such sources as walking, the wind blowing, vibration, ocean waves or even cars driving by.

If you want to see it, you’d better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing — fast.