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

1. A hop, skip and a jump on the moon — and beyond
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... across the moon, the Talaris team is pushing for hoppers to be used to explore any body in the solar system that has enough gravity to make hopping feasible, including asteroids. “There are limits to the ...

2. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

3. Standard Solar to Bring Solar Energy to University of Delaware
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Standard Solar, Inc., the East Coast's premier full-service developer, integrator and installer of solar electric systems, today announced that it will install solar power at the University of Delaware ...

4. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

5. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

A solar panel (photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel) is a packaged interconnected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells. The solar panel is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic ...

6. BlueChip Energy Launches Solar PV System With Battery Back-Up For Use During Hurricane Season
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

BlueChip Energy (BCE), a provider of complete solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, today announced the introduction of a grid-tied solar energy system ...

7. Enolia Solar Systems to Install 1.5MW of SolarEdge Power Harvesting Systems in Greece, as Part of a New Partnership
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

SolarEdge Technologies, a provider of end-to-end Distributed Solar Power Harvesting and monitoring solutions, is expanding its activity in Greece, announcing a partnership with Enolia Solar Systems SA, ...

8. 3 Questions: Richard Binzel on astronomers’ powerful new tool
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... and comets by mapping large portions of the sky each night to look for moving objects in our solar system. Based in Hawaii, Pan-STARRS features the world’s largest digital camera — a 1,400-megapixel device ...

9. Costs for Thermo-photovoltaic Cells Significantly Reduced
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) cells are great for converting radiation from any heat source to power. These cells can generate power from the wasted heat which gets released when glass or steel is produced. ...

10. FIRST RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE IN CALIFORNIA GOES SOLAR
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego, Canadian Solar Inc. ("the Company," "Canadian Solar" or "we") (Nasdaq: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar companies, and HelioPower, a leading solar ...

11. Schneider Electric introduces its solar solutions at Intersolar North America 2010
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... be exhibiting at Intersolar North America, in San Francisco, California, from July 13 – 15. Intersolar North America focuses on photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal technology and has quickly established ...

12. Schneider Electric makes powerful inroads in China's emerging solar market
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric announced today its success in securing two consecutive solar projects in the newly emerging Chinese solar market. The first Schneider Electric photovoltaic (PV) projects are being ...

13. TEP Signs 160-MW of Renewables PPAs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has agreed to purchase the output of 10 new solar power systems, a landfill gas generation project and a new wind farm that together will have an installed capacity of close ...

14. Alpha Energy and Arizona Game & Fish Showcase Rooftop Solar Installation
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... to showcase the 191 kilowatt rooftop solar power system installed and commissioned in Fall 2009. ...

15. 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 ...

16. DOE Awards $62 Million to 13 Concentrating Solar Power Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE will award up to $62 million for research and development of concentrating solar power systems, with the investment meant to speed the commercialization and deployment of cutting-edge solar technologies ...

17. Bill Gates funds cloud factory (Y! Green)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

... exception of distributed solar) are still a decade or more away. Next gen nuclear is probably 20 away. And it’s becoming clearer every day that our planet and our species cannot afford 10 more years ...

18. Secretary Chu Announces up to $62 Million for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selections of projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. Slideshow: Solar power, shaped up
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Flat solar photovoltaic panels are becoming more widespread, but the power they produce varies over the course of the day as the sun’s position changes — unless the panels are mounted on tracking systems ...

22. The Edge of Space and Time
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

Alpha Centauri is the closet star to our solar system and is 4.3 light years away. If it disappeared it would take 4.3 years for us humans to notice the difference, Looking up into the sky is looking ...

23. Dantherm Power and Leap Power join hands to market fuel cell power and hybrid power based solutions in North America
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... the Partnership to aggressively market their products to North American telecom Service Providers (SPs), Data Centers, and Solar Power Generation Plants. ...

24. 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 ...

25. SunPower To Build 1-MW PV Plant in Yolo County
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Yolo County, SunPower Corp. and Bank of America announced that SunPower will design and construct a 1-megawatt (MW) solar power system at the Yolo County Justice Center in Woodland, California. ...

26. SolarDock and SunRise bring locally manufactured SolarDocks to Ontario
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

SolarDock LLC, a leading Solar PV consultant, designer and manufacturer of high-tilt-angle racking systems that require no penetration of roof surfaces, announced today that it has signed a license & ...

27. Alpha Energy Commissions Grid-Tied System for Cox in Tucson
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Located at 1628 West Williams Drive, Alpha Energy, a member of Total Power Solutions provider The Alpha Group, recently completed the construction and commissioning of a 21kW Elevated Solar PV Grid-Tied ...

28. Prototype Solar Power-Assist for Buses
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Sunpods Inc. is California-based manufacturing company. They produce modular, fully integrated and tested solar power generation systems. Recently they have come out with an idea of the first solar ...

29. Navy Awards $200 Million for 40 MW of Solar Power on Southwestern Bases
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Navy recently awarded a $200 million contract for a total of 40 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic power systems on Navy and Marine Corps bases throughout the Southwest. The National Park ...

30. 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 ...