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

1. Biogas at Home: A Renewable No-Brainer
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... heater and are of course thoroughly insulated. Distributed small scale biogas could complement residential PV solar as well, providing year-round cooking energy and stand-by generator fuel, while PV did ...

2. Game Changer for Organic Solar Cells
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... generation of wearable devices and enable small-scale distributed power generation.The simple doping solution-based process involves briefly immersing organic semiconductor films in a solution at room ...

3. Biogas at Home: A Renewable No-Brainer
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... heater and are of course thoroughly insulated. Distributed small scale biogas could complement residential PV solar as well, providing year-round cooking energy and stand-by generator fuel, while PV did ...

4. ARPA-E Awards $33 Million for New Fuel Cell Projects
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

... distributed power generation. ...

5. Utility Nightmares: Distributed Generation and Halving Electricity Consumption
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

While many utility executives attribute much of their predicted market challenges to the rise of photovoltaics and net metering, they actually have much more to worry about.

6. Distributed Generation Shines in Thailand
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Electricity generation today is moving towards a more decentralised model where generation is close to demand. Possible benefits are diminished transmission and distribution losses and investments, improved ...

7. The Democratizing Promise of Energy Storage
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

While energy storage is a small fraction of total power generation capacity, promising examples suggest that distributed energy storage could change the electricity system during the next decade as fundamentally ...

8. Solar Financing Models: Swimming Around the Sharks in the Water
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

A panel presentation last Friday at the MIT Energy Conference explored the evolution of financing sources for solar energy, particularly distributed generation, that are bringing new money into the i ...

9. An Action Plan for Distributed Generation
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

The rapid growth of solar power, and the promise of fuel cells, microturbines, battery storage and other distributed technologies, is engendering change and new opportunities in the utility world. Many ...

10. With changes, the grid can take it
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, ...

11. Rhode Island Rapidly Implementing Feed-in Tariffs for Distributed Generation
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

In a move that took North American renewable energy advocates by surprise, tiny Rhode Island has passed a law implementing a limited feed-in tariff and set it on a fast track to implementation.

12. Bringing Energy Closer to Home: Why Distributed Generation Works
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

For all the talk in the last few years about smart grid, it's amazing how little has changed in the American electric industry since Thomas Edison first fired up his power station on Pearl Street, New ...

13. Monopoly Energy or Energy Democracy?
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Maybe it was the report from California that declared large solar lease investors are making an aggressive grab for Governor Brown's groundbreaking 12,000 MW of distributed generation in CA. Or it could ...

14. First Results From PG&E’s Distributed Generation PV Program
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

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15. Information Age
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... had an “aha moment” in the fall of 1972 and spent several years building working systems that instantiated it; then, in 1980, she abruptly moved into the largely unrelated research area of distributed ...

16. Growing The Technology For Artificial Leaves
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

... and describes his plan to create distributed power generation systems in developing countries. ...

17. Competitive market amendment offers reasonable balance for all types of renewable energy production in Florida.
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

... that is purchased from distributed generation systems, including wind, solar and biomass, through a competitive market. ...

18. Schneider Electric inverters at heart of first micro-grid, distributed energy resource community in California
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric solar inverters play an integral part in the Sunverge Solar Integration System at the 2500 R Street project in Sacramento, California. The 34-single family home LEED™ Platinum housing ...

19. Ballard Awarded Funding for Distributed Generation System
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Ballard Power Systems has been conditionally awarded CAD$7 million funding by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) for further ...

20. Virtual Power Plants Set To Potentially Change Power Structure
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The traditional vertically-integrated power utility may be supplanted in the future by distributed generation and various renewables, meaning that the classic linear structure of power could be replaced ...

21. Pennington Asset Management Supports Renewable Energy in Florida
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... widespread, distributed generation of renewable energy. Their membership represents another signal of the private investment market seeking to do business in the renewable energy industry of Florida. ...

22. Ballard to Power One Megawatt Fuel Cell Generator in Singapore
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Fuel cell stacks will be integrated in distributed generation (DG) system This is an important first step into the commercial DG market in ... ...

23. New On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation Program Launched with First Competitive RFP
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) yesterday announced it has launched a revised On-Site Renewable Distributed Generation Program ... ...

24. Programming crowds
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Soylent and VizWiz is valuable for revealing what’s possible with Internet-coordinated, distributed labor. But, he says, he would like to see researchers develop a better theoretical understanding of the ...

25. Global Foundation Supports Renewable Energy in Florida
(Feed Articles / REW - Hydrogen Fuel Cell News )

... in Florida based on widespread, distributed generation of renewable energy. Starting this week, the foundation has committed to match corporate and individual contributions and donations received by F ...

26. Fly the eco-friendly skies
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... for a tail to balance the aircraft. The large structure also allows engineers to explore different propulsion architectures for the plane, such as a distributed system of multiple smaller engines. Although ...

27. Self-powered sensors
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... installations may be crammed into hard-to-reach nooks or distributed over wide areas that are often difficult to access. But new technology being developed by MIT researchers could make such replacements ...

28. This Year In Clean Energy - What A Ride
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

The year 2009 started off with a bang for the clean energy industries -- encompassing energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean distributed generation -- for manufacturers, project developers, installers ...

29. China’s ENN, Duke Energy to build U.S. solar projects
(Feed Articles / CleanTech - Energy News Feed)

New joint development agreement intends to focus on utility-scale solar farms and commercial distributed generation plants. ...

30. Renewables Impact on the Grid? Answers from Telecom History
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

If I were a senior executive at an investor-owned utility (IOU), I would be more than a little nervous about the spread of Renewables, and grid-tied distributed energy generation sources in general. What ...