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

1. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... — it is in my economic self-interest," said John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, the nation's largest electric utility company and owner of the nation's largest fleet of nuclear power plants. Rowe, one of the conference's ...

2. Self-powered sensors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

This is the first of a two-part series about MIT research on harnessing micro-sources of power. It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in devices that need to work over long periods of time. Doctors ...

3. Latest Micro-Hydro Project uses EMMA
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Smart-grid EMMA DSM unit optimizes performance of 90 year old micro-generator Coolpower's second generation EMMA controller installed Andover UK; 30 th October 2009 Source of power 1920 restored ...

4. Obama's nuclear power policy: a study in contradictions? (The Christian Science Monitor)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama has followed up on his support for "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants," laid out Jan. 27 in his State of the Union speech, by proposing ...

5. GE and Petrobras In Biofuel-Fired Aeroderivative Generation Play
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, together with GE, has developed the world's first fully-commercial bio-ethanol-fired gas turbine power station. ...

6. Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output of energy. Fusion has been a cherished goal of physicists and energy researchers ...

7. Explained: Gallager codes
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... at MIT, proposed codes tended to run up against a limit called the computational cutoff rate. That rate varied according to the transmission power and noise characteristics of a channel, but in practical ...

8. UTC Power Attains 5,000-hour Durability Milestone with Transit Bus Fuel Cell System
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

UTC Power has announced one of its latest generation PureMotion Model 120 fuel cell powerplants for hybrid-electric transit buses has ... ...

9. Hydrogenics Awarded Development Contract With the Canadian Space Agency
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Hydrogenics Corporation has announced the award of a contract for the development of a next generation power system to be used for surface ... ...

10. 2G Bio-Energy Technology Corporation (2G Bio Energietechnik AG) in Germany, a global leader in manufacturing highly efficient cogeneration CHP power plants is entering the American market.
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... and efficient cogeneration CHP modules, and more than 1000 power plants installed in many countries, 2G is now distributing its leading technologies to the United States and South America. A strategic ...

11. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gasses Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. ...

12. Life after silicon
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors ...

13. EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. ...

14. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gasses Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. ...

15. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Today, the US EPA Administrator signed ...

16. EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. ...

17. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gasses Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. ...

18. US EPA to Regulate Green House Gases Under the Clean Air Act
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... and power generation sources). The actions taken today support EPA in regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Today, the US EPA Administrator signed ...

19. Southwest Windpower Names R. Dixon Thayer as CEO
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

CEO of Southwest Windpower, Frank Greco, announced today that he has found a successor. "The company has positioned itself as a global leader and is prepared to take its next generation step in growth. ...

20. A-Power & Amraas International Reach Biomass and Geothermal Deals
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. has signed agreements with Pakistan Amraas International Private Limited (Amraas) for the build out of two separate renewable energy projects in Pakistan. ...

21. Selling chip makers on optical computing
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they’ve remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir Stojanović ...

22. Clean Coal On Its Way At A Price
(Feed Articles / CGUK - Top News Feed)

£9.5 Billion Levy on Carbon Capture and Storage Incentive All friends of the earth will be pleased to hear that Britain is going ahead with plans to build a new generation of clean coal power stations ...

23. UK Energy Policy Under Examination (Again)
(Feed Articles / CGUK - Top News Feed)

Last week the government announced 10 potential sites for a (fast-tracked) new generation of Nuclear Power stations (which was reffered to by Ed Milliband as ‘New Nuclear’) – these are: Braystones, ...

24. Hydropower Upgrades to Yield Added Generation at Average Costs Less Than 4 cents per kWh – Without New Dams
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $30.6 million in Recovery Act funding for the selection of seven hydropower projects that modernize hydropower infrastructure by increasing efficiency and ...

25. SEPA Commends Florida Power & Light for Largest US Solar Facility
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Washington, DC – The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) commends Florida Power & Light (FPL) and SunPower for the completion of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida. ...

26. New methods are changing old materials
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

...  The new approach, called computational materials science, is a powerful way of discovering new materials with desired properties — such as improved charge and discharge speeds for battery materials — ...

27. POWER-GEN Asia and Renewable Energy World Asia 2009 Achieves Record-Breaking Attendance.
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

POWER-GEN Asia, co-located with Renewable Energy World Asia, shattered its past attendance record with nearly 7,000 power professionals attending the most successful event in its 17 year history. Held ...

28. California Expands its Rules for Feed-In Tariffs and Net Metering
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

A new California law will allow utility customers to sell back the power from renewable energy systems as large as 3 megawatts in capacity, while a separate law will allow customers using net metering ...

29. OPG Ontario Pickering 8 reactor shut (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - Ontario Power Generation shut the 515-megawatt Unit 8 at the Pickering nuclear power station in Ontario by Monday for short maintenance in the switchyard, a spokesman for the province-owned generating ...

30. California Self-Generation Incentive Program Supporting Deployment of Fuel Cell Power Plants Extende
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

DANBURY, Conn., Oct. 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a leading manufacturer of high efficiency ...