What about propane for rural folks? Do we have to give up gas furnaces and stoves? Who will pay? Will electric bills go way ...

As energy prices climb and winters grow harsher, a niche group of homeowners is experimenting with a strange kind of space ...

The last two coal-burning units at the Naughton power plant near Kemmerer are scheduled to go dark this month so crews can ...

Your furnace won’t fail on a sunny spring day. Think now about whether you want to replace it with a gas or electric unit.

The lone remaining coal-fired power plant in the state of Washington will shut down at the end of December, and will be ...

TransAlta said it signed a long-term tolling agreement with Puget Sound Energy to convert its Centralia 2 coal-fired power ...

The plant had been scheduled to shut down as the state phases out coal power. Now it could produce significant power with natural gas instead.

Natural gas is back! Or maybe it never really left. Methane is like that Mason Williams song Classical Gas you just can’t help but like. I remember the heady days around 2010 when natural gas was the ...

I built a tall 2.5-meter furnace to see if natural draft alone could achieve temperatures high enough to smelt iron. The furnace reached molten slag but no iron formed, and an unusual pulsing airflow ...

What initially appeared to be a small decrease or relatively minor increase in winter heating bills this season for those using natural gas or electricity may be taking a turn for the worse. The ...

Today, the Council presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached a provisional agreement on the regulation to phase out imports of Russian natural gas. The regulation constitutes a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...