How things work

Battery Basics -- a detailed explanation from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fuels Cells -- an animation from Los Alamos National Laboratory
How Wind Turbines Work -- a detailed explanation from the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy lab
The Story of Stuff -- a video presentation that explains the interrelations of resources, energy, environment, consumption, labor, economics and human behavior in a clear, accessible and entertaining fashion

News sites

Earth2Tech
EnergyBiz
Energy Bulletin
EnergyCurrent
EnergyRefuge.com
Green Energy News
Greentech Media
Home Energy Magazine
Home Power Magazine
new energy
Photon International
Platts
Renewable Energy World
Technology Review: Energy
Treehugger
Wall Street Journal: Environmental Capital
Windstats Newsletter

Blogs

Alternative Energy Blog
Cleantech Greentech
The Energy Blog
The Energy Collective
The Geothermal Energy Blog
Green Energy Blog
R-Squared Energy Blog
The Wind Energy Blog

Reports

Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels: Next Generation Hydrocarbon Biorefineries -- from the National Science Foundation
Directing Matter and Energy: Five Challenges for Science and the Imagination -- from the US Department of Energy
Cashing In on Clean Energy -- from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Energy Information Administration -- energy statistics from the US Department of Energy
Energy Future: Think Efficiency -- from the American Physical Society
National Biofuels Action Plan -- from the US Departments of Agriculture and Energy

Talks

Patricia Dehmer: Basic Energy Research and Development Needs for a Long-Term National Energy Strategy (slides)
Juan Enriquez: Why can't we grow new energy?, TED conference, September 2007 (video)
Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame, TED conference, February 2005 (video)

Graphics and animations

The 2008 Greentech Market Taxonomy -- a chart from Greentech Media that lays out the greentech universe
Fuels Cells -- an animation from Los Alamos National Laboratory
US Energy Flow 2006 -- a chart from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Department of Energy showing where our energy comes from, where it goes and how much is lost

Events

Energy conferences
US Energy Information Administration energy conferences listing
Renewable energy conferences

Organizations

Algal Biomass Organization
American Wind Energy Association
Arizona Solar Center
California Geothermal Energy Collaborative
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Electricity Storage Association
Energy Storage Council
European Wind Energy Association
GeoExchange
Geothermal Energy Association
Geothermal Resources Council
International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
National Wind Coordinating Collaborative
New England Clean Energy Council
Wind Energy Works!

Companies

Business.com: Alternative Energy
InvestorIdeas.com: Global Renewable Energy Stock List & Directory

Products

The Alternative Energy Store
EnergyPlanet Renewable Energy Directory
groSolar
National Green Pages: Energy Products/Services -- General and Renewables
Otherpower.com
Real Goods

What you can do

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's Consumer Resources
DSIRE: The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
Department of Energy consumer information
Department of Energy's Petroleum Reduction Planning Tool -- a calculator for reducing your fuel use
EPA Energy Star -- the US government's consumer resource for energy conservation
wattzon.org -- all the key numbers about producing and using energy, from personal to planet-wide
What You Can Do -- from the Union of Concerned Scientists

What people have done
VIDEO William Kamkwamba: How I built my family a windmill, TED conference, June 2007

Learning

The Alternative Energy Store: Learn
Clean Energy 101 -- from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Clean Energy Fellowship Program -- entrepreneur development program
Solar Energy International
Solar Living Institute

Journals

Applied Solar Energy
ChemSusChem
Electric Power Systems Research
Energy
Energy and Buildings
Energy & Environmental Science
Energy and Fuels
Energy Efficiency
Environmental Science & Technology
International Journal of Energy Research
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology
Journal of Fusion Energy
Journal of Power Sources
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
Power Technology and Engineering
Progress in Photovoltaics
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Renewable Energy
Solar Energy
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Wind Energy

Laboratories

Advanced Energy Systems, Helsinki University of Technology
Center for Power Electronics Systems
Concentrating Solar Power/SunLab, Sandia National Laboratories
EFDA-JET (European fusion laboratory)
Energy Biosciences Institute
Energy Group, Princeton University
ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Geothermal Energy, Idaho National Laboratory
Geothermal Institute, The University of Auckland
Geothermal Research, Sandia National Laboratories
Geothermal Technologies Program, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Hawaii Natural Energy Institute
ITER (international fusion laboratory)
JBEI: Joint BioEnergy Institute
National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark
National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Photovoltaic Systems Research & Development, Sandia National Laboratories
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Solar Research, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center
Solar Technology Laboratory
Sustainable Energy Research Group, University of Southampton
US Department of Energy laboratories
Wallace Energy Systems & Renewables Facility, Oregon State University
Wave Energy Research , University of Limerick