Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Supercomputing on a cell phone
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... robots, determine devices’ behavior on the basis of sensor measurements. Control-systems researchers spend a great deal of energy trying to come up with practical approximations of complex physics in order ...

2. More green energy for the globe
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

On 30th August begins the new TREE (Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency) series of seminars for employees of ministries and multipliers from 57 countries at the Renewables Academy, Berlin. The goal ...

3. Estimating Forward REC Price Curves
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Almost all of today's renewable energy projects rely on regulatory financial incentives in order to make investment returns sufficiently attractive. Some incentives, such as rebates and tax credits, have ...

4. What's Your Game Plan?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

When it comes to federal financial incentives, proper planning is essential for renewable energy project owners and developers who seek to maximize available incentives, avoid pitfalls and realize a quicker ...

5. Solar Installation Projects Well Underway in Ontario but Is It Enough?
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

6. India cabinet approves key nuclear bill (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - India's cabinet on Friday approved a long-delayed draft law that will clear the way for foreign nuclear groups to build reactors in the 150-billion-dollar Indian atomic energy market.  ...

7. DOE Announces Nearly $120 Million to Advance Innovative Weatherization Projects, Highlights Progress in the Program Nationally
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today award selections for approximately 120 organizations across the country that will receive nearly $120 million to drive innovation under the Department ...

8. New 1-MW Waste-to-energy Plant Goes Online in UK
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A waste to energy plant has come online in the Clayton Hall Landfill Site near Chorley, in Lancashire. The project is designed to capture methane gas produced from the landfilled waste and convert it ...

9. DOE Issues Loan Solicitation for Renewable Energy Manufacturing
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has issued a loan solicitation for renewable energy manufacturing projects, including turbine blades and photovoltaic systems. ...

10. DOE Designates New National Renewable Energy Center
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has designated Florida Atlantic University as the site of a new national center for ocean energy research. Also, Ocean Power Technologies has signed a settlement agreement with stakeholders for ...

11. EIA: U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions to Increase 3.4% in 2010
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are projected to increase by 3.4% in 2010, according to a new report by DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA). ...

12. California's Ivanpah, a Major Solar Project, Moves Forward
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The California Public Utilities Commission has approved a power purchase agreement between a California utility and BrightSource Energy, marking a step forward in BrightSource's utility-scale concentrating ...

13. A (Load) Balancing Act: The Challenge Of Clean Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

As new solar and wind energy projects come online in California, electricity grid operators are struggling to smooth out the irregularities in power that come from renewable sources. They are exploring ...

14. POET, farmers kick off commercial biomass harvest for Project LIBERTY cellulosic ethanol
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Farmers and POET today celebrated the upcoming collection and delivery of 56,000 tons of baled corn cobs and light stover in the first commercial harvest for Project LIBERTY.

15. Department of Energy Paves Way for Additional Clean Energy Projects and Jobs through Manufacturing Solicitation
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

16. ADB Plans $1B in Asian Renewables Investment
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The Asian Development Bank has said it will invest another $1 billion in renewable energy projects and private equity funds devoted to cleantech around the region. The ADB has been a strong backer of clean ...

17. ASES & National Solar Tour Sponsor Globama Initiative for Solar on the White House
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The American Solar Energy Society (http://www.ases.org) is lending its support to a powerful public-private partnership to demonstrate the technological advances that can bring clean, job-creating, domestically-produced ...

18. New Proposed Pricing For MicroFIT Ground Mounted Solar Projects
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

19. Climate Models and Warming
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Climate models use various methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. All climate models take account of incoming energy as short wave electromagnetic radiation, ...

20. ELIMINATING AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO OIL
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Innovative technologies such as hydrogen, renewable energy, and energy efficiency can eliminate our reliance on foreign oil. A hydrogen "Manhattan Project" for energy is needed to accelerate the transition ...

21. Community-Centric Approach to Biomass Energy Necessary
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A biomass energy approach that stresses multiple, smaller generation plants scaled to make use of local fuel supplies harvested sustainably would make biomass projects more appealing to communities and ...

22. DOE Funds Biomass Pretreatment Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a contract to a Cincinnati company, AdvaceBio Systems, for research and development of a pretreatment reactor system of biomass feedstocks. The National Renewable ...

23. U.S. DOE Funds 'Sunlight-to-Fuel' Project
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy Announced earlier this month that it would set aside more than $100 million to create an "Energy Innovation Hub" to encourage innovation around producing fuels directly from ...

24. Enolia Solar Systems to Install 1.5MW of SolarEdge Power Harvesting Systems in Greece, as Part of a New Partnership
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

SolarEdge Technologies, a provider of end-to-end Distributed Solar Power Harvesting and monitoring solutions, is expanding its activity in Greece, announcing a partnership with Enolia Solar Systems SA, ...

25. Biomass Advancing in the Northeast
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Gestamp Biomass, a division of Gestamp Renewables with worldwide operations, and New Hampshire-based Clean Power Development announced that they plan to bring biomass energy projects to the Northeast region ...

26. 3TIER Brings Advanced Solar Products to India
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

3TIER,® the global leader in renewable energy information services, today announced that its complete suite of solar prospecting and assessment products is now available throughout India. The products ...

27. ET Solar to Supply Solar Modules for a PSE&G PV Project in US
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

28. BTEC Commends Legislators for Introduction of Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) extends its praise to Sens. Al Franken (D-MN.) and Kit Bond (R-MO.) and Reps. Betty McCollum (D-MN.), Jay Inslee (D-WA.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) for introducing ...

29. BP's Hayward to step aside as Gulf work resumes (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - BP Plc was expected to announce changes at the top on Monday with the anticipated departure of CEO Tony Hayward, who came under fire for his handling of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

30. BP says relief well rig back at Gulf spill site (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - A rig that had been drilling a relief well to plug BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil leak was reconnecting equipment to resume work at the spill site on Sunday, the top official overseeing the spill ...