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

1. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... class work.” Energy solutions Slocum is also working with students to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing the world: meeting growing energy demand with renewable sources that don’t add greenhouse ...

2. 3TIER Completes REmapping the World™
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

3TIER® today announced the completion of its REmapping the World ™ initiative, which was launched in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to global renewable energy adoption – the lack of reliable ...

3. Energy Diversification: A National Security Imperative
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

...  In short, we are critically dependent on this non-renewable resource. ...

4. Power from down under
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... be a enormous contributor to the world’s renewable energy portfolio,” says Curt Robinson, executive director of the Geothermal Resources Council in Davis, Calif., a nonprofit educational group. He says ...

5. US Renewable Energy Industry Needs the Heat in Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... – to promote energy resources that are efficient and renewable. As part of the broader renewable energy solution, biomass thermal can uniquely address the need for low-cost, locally supported energy  ...

6. Sustainable Energy Fund Launches New Program to Acquire $20 million in Environmental Attributes
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) announced its planned acquisition of more than $20 million in environmental attributes to support the development of small scale renewable energy generation resources such ...

7. Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. ...

8. The Green Rush Is On In China
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

China has emerged as the world's top producer of solar panels, and Western companies are eager to cash in on the country's urgent drive for renewable energy resources. It has the Obama administration  ...

9. Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That’s why ...

10. One word: bioplastics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... consumer products such as personal care products, gift cards and pens. Products like these, along with existing bioplastic products, tap into a “growing interest in materials that can be made from renewable ...

11. 3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the reduction targets, the possibility of banking or borrowing of permits over time, the amounts of offsets, and any additional measures directed at greenhouse gas reduction, such as renewable electricity ...

12. SEPA Boosts Solar Electric Power Build-out with New Resources
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Online solar tools and other resources customized for utility executives, employees and solar industry leaders

13. States Can Generate Their Own Renewable Energy To Meet Their RPS
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

U.S. states do not need to seek energy imports to meet their renewable energy goals. That's the conclusion of a new report from the 35-year-old Institute for Local Self-Reliance entitled Energy Self-Reliant ...

14. New England Region Has Significant Potential to Develop Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

At the request of New England's six governors, ISO New England Inc. released the results of a study designed to evaluate renewable energy resource potential in the region, as well as the economic and ...

15. Schwarzenegger's Executive Order Raises California RPS to 33% by 2020
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt regulations increasing California's Renewable Portfolio Standard ...

16. DOE, EPA, and CRS Announce Green Power Leadership Awards
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Green power supporters were in the spotlight on September 14 for advancing the voluntary purchase of electricity from renewable resources as DOE, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and ...

17. U.N. Reports on Developing Nations’ Energy Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global ...

18. U.N. Reports on Developing Nations’ Energy Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global ...

19. SEPA Continues Coverage of Compelling Solar Issues with Release of Monthly Webinar Schedule for July-December
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... utilities and the solar industry, and arm participants with the actionable intelligence to best capitalize on renewable energy investments. The Monthly Webinars are free to SEPA members and qualified media;* ...

20. Argonne Labs & Turkey's Ministry of Energy To Promote Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) ...

21. Leading by Example: Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Hawaii faces intertwined threats from global warming and dependence upon imported oil supplies. The threat from climate change is summarized in the recently released report of the United States Global ...

22. House and Senate Move to Address Climate and Energy: Mixed Bag for Clean Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

... Climate package as well. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved energy measures that call for 15 percent of the country's power to come from renewable sources by 2021. Not surprisingly, ...

23. Kite-like Turbines Could Capture Wind Above New York
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Now we know that oil reserves are not going to last forever we are searching for alternative energy resources keenly. We are reading about new ways to tap energy from renewable resources. Sometimes ...

24. Blooming Biofuel: How Algae Could Provide the Solution
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In the years since the discovery of significant concentrations of lipids in certain species of algae, estimates for the potential of the single-cell water-borne plant have varied wildly. What is agreed ...

25. Senate Transmission Bill May Help Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced a bill aimed at modernizing the U.S. electricity grid. The proposal calls for reforms to the primary roadblocks ...

26. Ireland's ESB to Create 3,700 Jobs in Renewable Energy Sector, an Industrial Info News Alert
(Feed Articles / AEN - Top Energy News)

GALWAY, IRELAND -- (Marketwire) -- 04/22/09 -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Ireland's national utility, Electricity Supply Board (ESB) (Dublin), has unveiled ...

27. BRIEF: Renewable Energy Expert To Work for Interior Dept.: Salazar Picks Former Adviser to Richardson
(Feed Articles / AEN - Top Energy News)

Apr 08, 2009 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Ned Farquhar, a renewable energy and natural resource policy expert and former adviser to ... ...

28. Calif. Desert Becomes Home For Renewable Energy
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

California's utilities are in a tight spot. They must get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of next year. Currently, renewable energy provides only 12 percent of the state's ...

29. Investing in Renewable Energy, Environment and Water Stocks
(Feed Articles / AEN - Top Energy News)

Investorideas.com and its leading green investor portal, provide investors with tools and resources to participate and invest in renewable energy, water and environment stocks. ... ...

30. Renewable energy will boost software demand, says Greenpeace
(Feed Articles / AEN - Top Energy News)

As countries restructure their electricity sector to include more renewable resources, there will be a higher demand for management software, throwing up opportunities for software ... ...