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• Elon Musk’s offer to rebuild Puerto Rico’s electricity grid is a game-changer

  1:42 PM ET Tue, 10 Oct 2017

  Elon Musk's offer to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid represents a big change in the way we think about disaster aid, says Jake Novak.

• Nations are getting lax about energy efficiency, putting climate progress at risk, top advisor warns

  3:02 AM ET Thu, 5 Oct 2017

  Last year saw the weakest overall progress in energy efficiency policies since 2009, the International Energy Agency said.

• Elon Musk: More rockstar than CEO

  1:26 AM ET Tue, 3 Oct 2017

  CNBC recently attended Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla announcements in Australia. Here's what the reporter observed.

• Cramer reviews the third quarter's 10 unlikely winners

  7:12 PM ET Mon, 2 Oct 2017

  Jim Cramer explains the gains behind the 10 top-performing stocks of Q3.

• Energy Department proposes change to electricity pricing that could boost coal, nuclear plants

  6:34 PM ET Fri, 29 Sept 2017

  Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Friday told regulators to consider a rule that would change the way electricity is priced.

• ABB chief says he is ‘very confident’ about rebuilding GE business bought for $2.6 billion

  7:18 AM ET Mon, 25 Sept 2017

  Swiss power grid maker ABB will pay $2.6 billion for General Electric's Industrial Solutions business, it was announced Monday.

• Trump's 'no friend' of clean energy. Here are 3 reasons to invest anyway

  11:03 AM ET Wed, 20 Sept 2017

  Political headwinds aside, clean energy is on a roll that even the Trump administration can't stop, says Scott Brown.

• The troubling 'tactics' politicians are using to attack rooftop solar

  7:40 PM ET Mon, 18 Sept 2017

  Rooftop solar growth has slowed to a crawl, thanks to these troubling political attacks, says Greer Ryan.

• Solar installations are growing faster than people realize, says panel maker

  3:18 AM ET Fri, 15 Sept 2017

  Steve O'Neil, CEO at solar panel maker REC, said the cost of solar energy is also expected to come down due to improvements in technology.

• Restoring power to Florida will take 'weeks, not days' in some areas

  4:22 PM ET Mon, 11 Sept 2017

  Severe damage to Florida's grid means utilities will not just have to restore power but rebuild parts of the system.

• Hurricane Irma could leave areas of Puerto Rico without power for up to six months

  5:02 PM ET Wed, 6 Sept 2017

  Puerto Rico's main electricity company says parts of the island could be without power for as long as six months.

• Texas utilities struggle to restore power as Harvey hampers progress

  4:49 PM ET Mon, 28 Aug 2017

  Hundreds of thousands of Texans were without power along the Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Harvey left parts of Texas area under water.

• China just approved the world's largest power company with more than 225 gigawatts of capacity

  6:52 PM ET Mon, 28 Aug 2017

  Beijing continues to drive reform of China's state-owned enterprises.

• Hurricane Harvey strengthens, and these stocks could get hit

  3:05 PM ET Fri, 25 Aug 2017

  Using quantitative analytics tool Kensho, CNBC looked at Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm landfalls since the 1980s.

• Billionaires like Buffett are chasing reliable income that comes from utilities like Oncor

  4:18 PM ET Tue, 22 Aug 2017

  The steady, reliable income from electricity transmission businesses is attractive to investors like Warren Buffett and Paul Singer.

• Solar eclipse 2017: How the solar power industry is prepping for a huge blip

  7:25 AM ET Mon, 21 Aug 2017

  The solar eclipse will significantly diminish solar capacity for a couple of hours, prompting the solar industry to set up a complex back-up system of other power sources, Vox reports.