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Visit a Solar Decathlon Zero Energy Home Near You, April 4–18

April 9, 2023 admin buildings, clean power, COLORADO, nrel, solar decathlon, Solar energy

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 […]

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EGS, AGS, and Supercritical Geothermal Systems: What’s the Difference?

April 4, 2023 admin ags, Business, csp, drilling, egs, engineering, full coverage, geothermal, hybrid geothermal, irena, news, notebook, nrel, Renewables, Research and Development, Technology

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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Entergy, RWE Partner to Assess Offshore Wind Prospects in Gulf of Mexico

March 30, 2023 admin Business, DOE, economic challenges, entergy, finance, full coverage, gulf of mexico, news, nrel, offshore wind, Renewables, rwe, technical challenges, Technology

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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New Infrastructure Perception & Control Lab Merges Transportation & Computational Science

March 23, 2023 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, nrel, research

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 […]

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Full Steam Ahead: Unearthing The Power of Geothermal

March 11, 2023 admin clean power, geothermal energy, nrel

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 […]

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Why Frankfort, Kentucky, Set A 2023 Clean Energy Goal

March 8, 2023 admin clean power, clean transport, climate change, kentucky, nrel, policy & politics, policy research, research

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 […]

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Show ‘N Tell For Renewables — Fun Learning For Kids (& Their Teachers & Parents)

March 2, 2023 admin air quality, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, education, Energy, global weirding, nasa, nrel

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:35:56 +0000

Kids are sponges when it comes to learning about renewable energy, and hands-on, experiential activities are fun ways to make zero emissions living tangible.

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How Much Land Would It Require To Get Most Of Our Electricity From Wind & Solar?

February 28, 2023 admin clean power, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:40:26 +0000

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. Fortunately, the answer is relatively little. A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48 — that’s an area […]

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NREL Removes Initial Barrier To Distributed Wind Turbine Certification

February 9, 2023 admin clean power, nrel, qed wind power, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:37:01 +0000

Certification of Small- and Medium-Sized Wind Turbines Helps Increase Consumer Confidence by Verifying Technology Meets International Standards Certification is an important step before wide commercial deployment of small- and medium-scale wind turbines that produce distributed wind energy, which is used in homes, schools, farms, and remote communities at or near where it is generated. But […]

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DOE, NREL, EPRI Announce Program to Support Grid Integration of DERs

February 8, 2023 admin competition, ders, distributed energy, DOE, Energy Storage, EPRI, granholm, nrel, power, prize, Renewables, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 15:27:13 +0000

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) has announced a new competition designed to support the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the nation’s power grid. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm unveiled the program Feb. 7 during a presentation to attendees of the DISTRIBUTECH 2023 event at the San Diego Convention Center in California. The program […]

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