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

1. E: The Environmental Magazine - The drill's about to drop: in New York, new ways to find oil and gas pose serious environmental threats
(Feed Articles / FindArticles - Alternative Energy)

March 1, 2010 -- While climate change has been a driving force in speeding the development of renewable energy sources, it has also given new life to the search for... ...

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

... systems because they believe those will cost them money, but they support renewable energy standards — requiring utilities to provide a set percentage of their power from renewable energy — because they ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Global Investments in Clean Energy Fell Less than Expected in 2009
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Despite a global economic downturn in 2009, market analysts found that investments in clean energy, including renewable energy sources, declined less than expected. Asian investments topped North American ...

6. Aquamarine Power Makes Riding the Waves More Interesting
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Every time we turn around we are seeing something new and exciting in renewable energy forms and Aquamarine Power is the latest in a long line of energy sources to be pumped up about. Aquamarine Power ...

7. US Government Budget Proposals Increase Clean Energy Funding
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

President Barack Obama unveiled on February 1 a $28.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2011, including $2.36 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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  ...

10. Senate, House panels approve `net metering' bills (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A bill aimed at utility customers who install renewable power sources such as wind turbines is seriously flawed and would hurt Indiana's renewable energy movement, clean energy advocates told a state ...

11. Colo. Dems want to raise renewable energy standard (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Colorado Democratic state lawmakers want to increase the amount of electricity coming from renewable sources, saying the move will help the environment and create jobs. ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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. ...

14. Clean Future Solutions Now
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... We have everything you need from eco-friendly gift ideas to complete grid-tie and off-grid renewable energy systems. We can outfit your home or business with the latest in solar and wind power technology! Clean ...

15. 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  ...

16. Storing Wind Power as Ice?
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Of the total amount of electricity generated by all sources, about 75% is used by buildings, a major fraction of which is consumed by air conditioners. With the demand of renewable energy increasing ...

17. Quebec sets 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

...  "It is a very ambitious target for the government, given that 48 percent of Quebec's total energy currently comes from renewable energy sources," Quebec Premier Jean Charest ...

18. Quebec sets 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

...  "It is a very ambitious target for the government, given that 48 percent of Quebec's total energy currently comes from renewable energy sources," Quebec Premier Jean Charest ...

19. Transformer maker to open first US site in Colo. (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - A company that makes transformers that convert electricity from renewable energy sources to the grid plans to open its first U.S. plant in Wheat Ridge in January. ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. Potential for 1.9 Million Renewable Energy Jobs
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Three universities of the USA have conducted studies related to renewable sources of energy and it has produced some interesting facts. The first and most important one is that renewable energy policies ...

23. 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 ...

24. EPA Names the Top 20 Green-Powered Schools
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The greenest schools in the K-12 grades got high marks from the EPA for being the best in class in their purchase or use of electricity from renewable energy sources. The top five school leaders in ...

25. 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

26. Fossil Fuel Subsidies More Than Double Those for Renewables
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The largest U.S subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research from the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). The study, which reviewed fossil ...

27. 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 ...

28. UN climate summit puts China, India in spotlight (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... renewable sources within a decade.  ...

29. Ontario invests C$2.3 billion for "greener" power grid (Reuters)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

Reuters - The Canadian province of Ontario, keen to get more of its electricity from renewable energy sources, said on Monday it would spend C$2.3 billion ($2.1 billion) over the next three years to expand ...

30. China hydropower to near double by 2020: state media (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - China's hydropower capacity is expected to nearly double to 300,000 megawatts by 2020, state media said, as the nation powers ahead with the development of renewable energy sources.  ...