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

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

Why do some materials work well for making solar cells or light-emitting diodes (LEDs), while other materials don’t? One key factor is having the right bandgap. In a nutshell, bandgaps have to do with ...

2. Explained: Phonons
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

For the engineers who design cell phones, solar panels and computer chips, it’s increasingly important to be able to control the way heat moves through the crystalline materials — such as silicon — that ...

3. 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 ...

4. Japan donates 10 million dollars for Galapagos solar energy (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Japan has donated 10 million dollars to Ecuador to help fund a solar energy project in the Galapagos Islands, a UN-designated World Heritage site, Ecuador's Electricity Ministry said Friday.  ...

5. 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 ...

6. US company displays hydrogen water purifier
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

A small US company, The Essential Element, is demonstrating a portable device that purifies water and generates electricity, using solar ... ...

7. 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, ...

8. 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. ...

9. 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 ...

10. Lights, Camera, Action! Solar Takes Center Stage to Provide Free Electricity for $13 Million Peoria Center for the Performing Arts in Arizona
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Like many businesses in Arizona, Theater Works Executive Director Jack Lytle was constantly seeking new ways to save money and reduce their company's monthly utility bill. At the center of the group's ...

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

... fuels as needed. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, says that solar energy is the only feasible long-term way of meeting the world’s ever-increasing needs for energy, ...

12. Solar Greenhouse to Produce Food and Electricity
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Imagine a greenhouse that is producing solar power and food too. This excellent experiment is being done in Italy. The companies responsible for this project are Renewable energy company Solar ReFeel, ...

13. groSolar and DECK Bring groEnergy Watch Monitoring to Large-Scale PV
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

White River Junction, Vt. --- groSolar, a national leader in solar power system distribution and installation, today announced the expansion of the company's proprietary energy monitoring solution, groEnergy ...

14. PV Cell Prototype Generates Electricity from IR and UV Light
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Solar energy is present in abundance around us. The problem is how to harness a substantial portion of it for human use. How to raise the efficiency bar of solar conversion into electricity? Scientists ...

15. Sunlight to Electricity with Solid-State Photovoltaics
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Conventional solid-state solar cells are suffering from the problem of the bandgap voltage limitation. Scientists are trying to capture more and more of sunlight and convert it into electricity. If ...

16. Viruses harnessed to split water
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... problem of solar energy: It’s only available when the sun shines. By using sunlight to make hydrogen from water, the hydrogen can then be stored and used at any time to generate electricity using a fuel ...

17. Solar power for the poor: facts and figures
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. An estimated 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity, ...

18. Solar power for the poor: facts and figures
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. An estimated 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity, ...

19. A system that’s worth its salt
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

...  A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water ...

20. AWSL in Discussions Regarding Prospects for the Company's Renewable Energy Systems under India's Progressive New Feed-in-Tariff
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. (OTC: AWSL) is pleased to report that it has been approached by various groups to quote on multiple wind and solar projects in India and discussions are continuing. Last fall, ...

21. EnergyPeriscope.com Enters Production Mode
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... energy solutions. Includes sales and project management tools to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations. Model solar electric (PV), solar water heating, solar pool/spa heating, ...

22. Expensive Solar Power Continues to Be Built in the U.S.: Why?
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Electric utilities are constructing expensive and inefficient solar plants because of subsidies and mandates from federal and state governments. The subsidies are not free–they come from the American ...

23. Solar power could provide 10% of US energy: report (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - The United States could source 10 percent of its electricity from solar power by 2030, a report said Tuesday, winning support from a US lawmaker who wants to boost the number of US solar panels. ...

24. Insulators made into conductors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... for dissipating heat in many applications where metals are now used, such as solar hot water collectors, heat exchangers and electronics. Chen explains that most attempts to create polymers with improved ...

25. Salt River Solar & Wind Invites Customers to Go Solar! at the Maricopa County
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Salt River Solar & Wind (http://www.saltriverenergy.com) invites customers to bring a copy of their electricity bill to receive a free solar quote from Booth #117 at the Maricopa County Home & Garden ...

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

... as much electric power as the nation currently uses. He’s also looking into ways of storing solar power, using molten salts to store the thermal energy for delivery later. With the right policies in ...

27. A new way to build membranes for fuel cells
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... “we are more focused now on using this process as a membrane-producing technology,” he says. And in addition to fuel cells, they could also be used as electrolytes in advanced batteries and solar cells, ...

28. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

29. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

30. Alternative Energy Grows in Europe
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell More wind capacity was ...