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

1. U.S. Energy Use Declines, Renewables Increase
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

A new government study shows that Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources. ...

2. DOE Offers $15 Million Geothermal Heat Recovery Opportunity
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has announced a $15 million funding opportunity to research and develop innovative methods of producing clean, renewable heat energy from geothermal resources. ...

3. Rare-Earth Resources Increase Chinese Clout
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

Over the past 5 years, China has emerged as a world-leading producer of solar and wind technologies. Due to its insatiable appetite for energy, the country is quickly becoming a top installer of renewables ...

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

... red tape and tax disincentives are hindering renewable energy development on Indian land. ...

5. NJ gov to sign offshore wind energy bill (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to sign a bill into law that would offer tax credits to encourage the development of renewable energy resources. ...

6. Greenpeace pushes for renewable energy in SAfrica (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - South Africa has renewable resources that can provide solutions to the country's energy problems and create jobs — while fighting global warming, Greenpeace officials said Wednesday. ...

7. 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 ...

8. How to Exit the Age of Oil: Closing the Renewables Gap
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

We are living in a time when the theory of unlimited economic growth is running into the reality of limited energy sources. To solve the problem, it is commonly thought that renewables are simply a drop-in ...

9. Ontario's Growing Pains: Will the Wind and Solar Industries Scale-up in Time?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

With the Green Energy and Economy Act (GEEA) last May, the Ontario government launched the most ambitious feed-in tariff (FIT) program for renewable energy development in North America. The combination ...

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

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...

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

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable as opposed to fossil fuels for example which once gone are gone. ...

12. Will We Find the 'Black Swan' of Clean Energy?
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

This is a unique time in history for energy inventors and entrepreneurs. As the need for clean, scalable sources of energy becomes more important, investors are looking for unique "Black Swan" technologies ...

13. 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 ...

14. Obama Announces $2 Billion For Solar Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country's use of renewable energy sources. ...

15. Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.  ...

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

... scheme it hopes will help meet its target of deriving 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. ...

17. Massachusetts Study Recognizes Significant Benefits of Biomass Thermal Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

"Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study", a recently released report commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) and authored by the Manomet Center for Conservation ...

18. Increase Renewable Energy Sources – Generate More Jobs
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

This has been the slogan that GE, one of the leading power suppliers and energy delivery technology pioneers, propagated all through the ‘Capture the Wind‘ tour across US. GE Energy, comprised ...

19. NREL Study: Western Grid Can Handle Increased Wind and Solar Power
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a study showing that it is possible for the Western power grid to draw 35% of its electricity from solar and wind sources. The study notes ...

20. Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... (This factors in the federal government’s renewable energy production tax credit, worth 2.1 cents per kilowatt-hour.) To calculate costs, the MIT team first received detailed data about current and next-generation ...

21. The Never Ending Renewable Energy Handout
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Senate Committee seeks to make renewable energy handout “permanent” Washington, D.C. – Acknowledging that some sources of energy just can’t cut it on their own, the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Energy, ...

22. CanGEA responds to Grasby and Majorowicz report
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

A recent report by Stephen Grasby and Jacek Majorowicz estimated that all of Canada's power needs could potentially be met by developing Canada's deep geothermal resources through enhanced geothermal ...

23. New water-splitting catalyst found
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... hundredfold from the level they initially reported two years ago. John Turner, a research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, calls this a nice result, but says that commercial ...

24. New State-by-State Wind Power Data Helps Build a Green Grid
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

New wind resource maps and wind potential tables for the lower 48 states were recently released by AWS Truewind in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This new data marks ...

25. Time for Eco-Citizens to Declare Global Transformation
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The struggle with overreliance on traditional fuels for our energy needs is becoming ever more apparent. Political instability, depleting resources and rocketing energy costs have all negatively impacted ...

26. DOE Marks Earth Day with New Online Resources for Clean Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with special Web pages featuring information on how to save energy and use renewable energy. Among the features are animations about U.S. energy ...

27. How Wind Farms Affect the Global Climate
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Wind energy has been a fast growing sector of the overall energy market. It is renewable energy that can be produced on an industrial scale that can rival the older established energy sources of coal, ...

28. How Wind Farms Affect the Global Climate
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Wind energy has been a fast growing sector of the overall energy market. It is renewable energy that can be produced on an industrial scale that can rival the older established energy sources of coal, ...

29. How Wind Farms Affect the Global Climate
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Wind energy has been a fast growing sector of the overall energy market. It is renewable energy that can be produced on an industrial scale that can rival the older established energy sources of coal, ...

30. 3 Questions: David MacKay on renewable energy
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

David MacKay (pronounced mac-EYE), a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, was recently appointed to a three-year term as chief scientific advisor to the UK’s Department of Energy and ...