New Perovskite Solar Cells: How Low (And How Fast) Can Solar Go?
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 02:08:51 +0000
The long wait for low-cost, high-performance perovskite solar cells is coming to a close. Now the fun begins.
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NREL Tapped To Help Electrify 4 Major Freight Corridors
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:23:27 +0000
This spring, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $7 million in funding for seven projects focused on creating regional infrastructure plans to support electric charging and hydrogen fueling for medium- and heavy-duty trucks along the nation’s most heavily trafficked corridors. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will collaborate with industry partners on four of the […]
Ask A Scientist: The Electric Car & Power Grid’s Shared Future
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:35:00 +0000
The revolutions in power generation and vehicle technology are gaining momentum, and given the climate crisis, they can’t come too soon. Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US electric car sales, meanwhile, jumped 65% compared to 2021, […]
75 Terawatts Of World Solar PV Needed By 2050 — Action Needed Now!
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:10:53 +0000
Experts Warn Waiting No Longer an Option for Commitment to Multi-Terawatt Photovoltaic Production Worldwide Global experts on solar power strongly urge a commitment to the continued growth of photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing and deployment to power the planet, arguing that lowballing projections for PV growth while waiting for a consensus on other energy pathways or the […]
Visit a Solar Decathlon Zero Energy Home Near You, April 4–18
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:35:59 +0000
Collegiate teams competing in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2023 Build Challenge will hold community open houses for their zero energy homes April 4–18. Eleven collegiate teams across the globe have spent nearly two years designing and building full-size, high-performance, low-carbon houses for the competition. These dwellings demonstrate creative solutions to real-world climate […]
EGS, AGS, and Supercritical Geothermal Systems: What’s the Difference?
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:52:20 +0000
The spectrum of geothermal technologies is quickly evolving. This supplement to POWER’s April 2023 feature, “Startups Are Shaking Up Geothermal Power’s Potential,” briefly explains the differences between some engineered geothermal systems. Conventional geothermal energy is largely produced by hydrothermal systems, which consist of hot water circulated in deep-seated permeable rocks. Resource temperature ranges from high (greater […]
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Read moreEntergy, RWE Partner to Assess Offshore Wind Prospects in Gulf of Mexico
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:09:11 +0000
U.S. utility Entergy and global power giant RWE are partnering to jointly assess the best means to develop an offshore wind market in the Gulf of Mexico. The two companies on March 30 unveiled a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which they will analyze the Gulf of Mexico offshore wind market and define an optimal […]
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Read moreNew Infrastructure Perception & Control Lab Merges Transportation & Computational Science
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:05:41 +0000
NREL Inaugurates New Lab, Advancing Pioneering Research Efforts Into the Real World To Improve Mobility Efficiency and Equity Billions of devices around the world are connected to the internet, leading to greater connectivity, data processing, and analytics. This “Internet of Things” helps people and organizations automate processes, reduce labor costs, and ultimately live and work […]
Full Steam Ahead: Unearthing The Power of Geothermal
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:05:48 +0000
Lesser Known Than Some of Its Renewable Energy Cousins, Geothermal Energy Is Now on the Rise Thanks to Its Ability To Provide 24/7 Power, Heat, Cooling, Critical Minerals, and More Geothermal energy — literally “heat from the Earth” — may be hard to see, but thanks to increasing public interest and outreach it is not […]
Why Frankfort, Kentucky, Set A 2023 Clean Energy Goal
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:35:45 +0000
In October 2021, the city of Frankfort, Kentucky, set a very accelerated and ambitious clean energy goal: to supply 100% clean, renewable electricity to city government operations by the end of 2023. “We need that pressure to hold ourselves accountable,” Frankfort City Commissioner Kelly May said. “Had we not hired the National Renewable Energy Laboratory […]