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.
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 […]
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 […]
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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Read moreCredit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 22:05:55 +0000
In January, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it launched the Clean Energy to Communities program, which will provide up to $50 million to support a range of communities and their clean energy development needs. Small communities might ‘’fall through cracks” when it comes to clean energy implementation. The new DOE program was created […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:25:19 +0000
Industry Will Face Challenge of Networked Infrastructure Among Many Entities
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:00:13 +0000
An ultrathin protective coating proves sufficient to protect a perovskite solar cell from the harmful effects of space and harden it against environmental factors on Earth, according to newly published research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF), […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:52:48 +0000
PR100 Update Provides Early Scenarios to Help Increase Renewable Energy Capabilities That Meet Electricity Demand, Improve Grid Reliability and Resilience, and Lower Energy Costs
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:00:23 +0000
12 Communities Selected To Adopt Online Solar Permitting Platform — and Win $15,000
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:30:56 +0000
Pumped hydro already accounts for 93% of utility-scale energy storage in the US, and plans are in the works to build up from there.