US Energy Dept. Trolls Trump Yet Again On Renewables, With $50 Million For New Grid…
There they go again: US Energy Dept. pumps $50 million into new grid reliability projects including renewables, renewables and more renewables.
Author: Tina Casey
US Celebrates Record 29% Drop In Utility-Scale Solar Costs — But Tariff Cloud Looms
Mixed signals on US solar — Energy Dept. cheers record-breaking solar cost drop while Trump ponders new tariff that could upend the US solar industry.
Look Out, Coal: New GE Wind Turbine Gets High Mileage From Low Wind Speeds
GE has just launched a new wind turbine that spells bad news for fossil fuel power generation. The “brand new machine” is GE’s its biggest onshore turbine to date, and more to the point, it provides a low cost pathway for harvesting energy from less than ideal wind speeds.
US Energy Dept. Trolls Trump With Yuuuuuge Solar Energy Announcement Promoting Obama’s SunShot Initiative
Millions of customers in hurricane-torn Florida are suffering through the aftermath of the devastating storm without power, and into this mess steps the US Department of Energy with the announcement of a solar energy initiative that seems to indicate light at the end of the grid reliability tunnel.
Go Army! US Army Researchers Develop New “Water Battery” For On-The-Go Energy Storage
The US Army has been focusing on wearable electronics and advanced lithium-ion batteries to power the fighting force of the future, and they’ve come up with a new approach to energy storage that is tailor-made for your home electronics, too.
EV Energy Storage Breakthrough Gets $1 Million To Cross The Valley Of Death
The US Energy Department has been steaming full speed ahead on cutting edge energy storage technology, and the latest development is one of those environmental twofers we love. A $1 million grant from the agency will help a company called Saratoga Energy to bridge the gap between its labwork and a low cost, high efficiency energy storage technology ideal for electric vehicles — without the carbon footprint, too.
New Energy Dept. Research Opens The Door To A World Without Gasoline — Fossil Gas,…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has paired up with the University of Toronto to develop a method for converting carbon dioxide and water into a basic building block for high value chemicals and fuels, including synthetic gasoline.
Here’s A Diesel-Killing, Futuristic “Dip-Dry” Solar Device You Can Practically DIY At Home (Sort Of)
Record-breaking solar cells are exciting, but generating electricity from sunlight is just part of the solar energy equation. Another area with huge potential is solar thermal, which basically consists of harvesting heat from the sun and — well, that’s about it. You get heat, not electricity.
If Coal Shouts “National Security!” And Nobody Listens, Does It Make A Sound?
The Energy Department’s controversial new grid study evoked a storm of criticism last week from clean energy stakeholders, but if you read it through, the agency actually makes it clear that coal can only swim with today’s energy sharks — natural gas and, increasingly, wind and solar — with the help of new taxpayer subsidies. The economics just don’t work for coal any more.
New Grid Study Finally Released, And The Winner Is … Wind Power!
The much-anticipated new DOE grid study brings a bit of cheer to coal fans, but wind power is the real winner according to…another new DOE study!
