Electricity is the flow of electrons from a negatively charged body to a positively charged body. Electricity can be used by humans as an energy source in a large number of applications that include heating, lighting and powering electric motors.

Click on the different parts of a car to discover advanced environmental technologies for vehicles that help reduce vehicle fuel consumption, emissions or other pollutants.

Access information about bioenergy, produced by the release of stored chemical energy contained in fuels made from biomass, a product of solar energy that is stored by the photosynthetic activity of plants.

Learn about efforts to develop and implement technologies that can allow coal-fired electricity generating plants to be retrofitted or built so that they produce low to zero emissions.

Find out why efficient energy use and energy management systems are considered essential elements of good robotic design.

CanmetENERGY is one of the main research and development arms of Natural Resources Canada. CanmetENERGY develops and delivers knowledge- and technology-based programs for the sustainable production and use of Canada's energy supply.

CanmetENERGY at the research centre in Varennes, Quebec, discusses research being done to improve the ways we use energy.

Learn about the different types of energy that influence bodies as they move through space. Read about the balance between potential and kinetic energy and about gravitational binding energy.

Read about the Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation's research programs for advancing fuel cell science and technology and facilitating the commercialization of fuel cells.

Discover how fuel cells generate electricity. Learn about the history of the technology and its future applications.

Functional polymers contain chemical groups that serve a specific function, whether biological, pharmacological, electrical or other. Intelligent polymers have the capacity of selecting and executing certain specic functions. They respond to an external stimulus by variations in their structure, composition or properties.

Discover how researchers are determining the potential environmental damage caused by offshore oil drilling (text and video).

Learn about small hydropower, a renewable energy technology that produces electricity by converting the mechanical energy in running water into electric energy.

Find information about solar photovoltaic systems including solar resource maps and a photo gallery of applications.

Learn how solar thermal technologies work to absorb the sun's radiant energy and transform it into usable heat. Access information and publications from CanmetENERGY's solar thermal technologies research and development program.

Find information on wind energy, a pollution-free, infinitely sustainable form of energy that converts kinetic energy present in the wind into more useful forms such as mechanical energy or electricity.