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

1. New San Diego Albertsons Using UTC Power Fuel Cell for Nearly 90% of its Electricity
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego, California community of Clairemont is generating nearly 90% of the electricity it needs with ...

2. UTC Power announces fuel cell installation at Albertsons supermarket
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego community of Clairemont will generate nearly 90 percent of the electricity it needs with a ...

3. Hezbollah urges power-starved Lebanon to build nuclear plant (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on Lebanon to consider building a nuclear power plant in the energy-starved nation.  ...

4. Summary Box: Quiet Prius will have noisier option (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - WHEN QUIET IS A PROBLEM: Hybrid cars, powered by a combination of gasoline and electric motors, can run on electricity and are far quieter than cars with traditional gasoline engines. That has drawn ...

5. Tribal Lands Struggle To Bring Clean Power Online
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Many tribal lands in the U.S. don't have electricity yet have a tremendous capacity to produce it from clean energy sources. Only one tribe is currently operating a utility-scale energy facility, as bureaucratic ...

6. 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 ...

7. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

8. China province cuts power to 500 factories (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Authorities in eastern China have cut off electricity to more than 500 factories for a month after they failed to meet emission reduction targets, state media reported Monday.

9. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

10. Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes his state will generate a third of its electricity from renewable power by 2020. It's an ambitious goal that will take an unprecedented effort. But economic and bureaucratic ...

11. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

12. Jamaica Gleaner News - A remarkable turnaround in nuclear power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

There seems no end to the increasing demand for energy. Global electricity consumption is expected to grow by over 50 per cent over the next 25 years with most of the energy still coming from fossil fuels ...

13. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... named the 50 green power partners (individual purchasing sources or companies) using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours ...

14. Solar Futures
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Solar power is the generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics, or indirect as with concentrating the sun's rays to boil water which is then used to provide power. ...

15. Silicon can be made to melt in reverse
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... device that allowed the researchers to precisely control the rate of heating and cooling. And to actually observe what was happening as the material was heated and cooled, they drew upon high-power synchrotron-based ...

16. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... named the 50 green power partners (individual purchasing sources or companies) using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours ...

17. Explained: Bandgap
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... is determined by the material’s bandgap. That’s the basis for light-emitting diodes, which are increasingly being used for displays and computer screens, and are seen as the ultimate low-power light bulbs. ...

18. Electricity Generation: Coal’s Share down in 2009, Lowest since 1978
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... the market. Hydroelectric power, wind energy, and natural gas picked up most of the market share coal lost in 2009.[i] Higher [...] ...

19. Funding cuts will finish Britain's clean energy race
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

In the 1970s the UK invested about 0.15% of GDP each year in research and development (R&D) into providing cheaper and cleaner energy. Britain was putting more public money into nuclear power and other ...

20. Fibers that can hear and sing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... for fibers with a regular thickness. After the fiber has been drawn, the researchers need to align all the piezoelectric molecules in the same direction. That requires the application of a powerful electric ...

21. DOE Offers $1.45 Billion Loan Guarantee to Abengoa Solar
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has announced a $1.45 billion conditional loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar to build a concentrating solar power generating facility in Arizona. The project will create 1,600 jobs during construction ...

22. The Ultimate Solar Cell?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

The ultimate step in utilizing solar power is to convert maximum energy from sun into electricity. This will make solar power highly cost-advantageous compared to other traditional power sources. Capturing ...

23. Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas fired plants the ...

24. Saharan Sun Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

There is plenty of sun in deserts and the Sahara is one of the biggest deserts in the world. Europe intends to import its first solar generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, ...

25. Thin films show surprising reactivity
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... and perhaps ultimately to improvements in the rate of power production from one type of fuel cell, according to a report published this week. In many cases, thin layers of a material — which may be just ...

26. President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Global Lab program, or G-lab, have used their newfound business skills to magnify the power of fledgling enterprises, like developing a scalable business model for food carts that deliver nutritious meals ...

27. ‘Efficiency Forward'
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... systems whenever those incentives cost less than the cost to generate the electricity to power the less-efficient equipment. Susan Coakley of Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, a nonprofit that ...

28. Nanosolar: Solar Power at a Lower Cost
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

In a market-friendly scenario, Nanosolar claims to be able to produce electricity at 5-6 cents/kilowatt hour almost as cheap as power from coal and at about one-third the cost of other solar power. ...

29. Wood-Powered 'Biomass' Plants Have Critics Barking
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... truly powered by waste materials. Opponents are concerned the plants will simply burn more wood. ...

30. More Wind Farms Mean Cheaper Energy
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Just as Americans are internalizing the real cost of sticking with fossil fuels, due to the Gulf sea floor gusher, a timely NREL study finds wind power makes electricity that's not just cleaner, but it's ...