Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and are touted for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use -- powering up green energy.

A pricey investment, to be sure, but Gills already received $2.7 million in incentives from Southern California Gas Company. The onion producer will also cut its power bills by $700,000 yearly and ...

The company expects its new onion-fuelled power to reduce its electricity bill by $700 000 (R5.7 million) a year and cut annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 000 tons. The tale started with ...

Onions make you cry, add flavor to food and are touted for their medicinal benefits. Now the vegetable has another use -- powering up green energy. Skip to main content ...

The Oxnard, California-based company expects its new onion-fueled power to reduce its electric bill by $700,000 a year and cut its annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30,000 tons.