Marine energy company Verdant Power has plopped three tidal power turbines into New York City’s East River on one array. This is called the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, and it is indeed the first US-licensed tidal power project.
On Monday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its first pilot project license to Verdant Power for a tidal energy projected located in New York City’s East River. The Project is known as the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project and is expected to generate 1,050 kilowatts of energy … [continued]
After two failed attempts, New York City has installed a new-and-improved aluminum alloy turbine in the East River, the only of its kind in the United States. [social_buttons]The turbine is the first of 300 which the city hopes to install in the waterway. Unlike the typical river which flows in … [continued]
Driver assistance technologies have great promise, but in practice they allow some people to do things they shouldn’t do behind the wheel.
The biggest solar power plant east of the Mississippi River is deploying new thin film solar technology from the US firm First Solar.
Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck.
The Department of the Interior today announced a funding opportunity through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda for ecosystem and habitat restoration projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin that address impacts caused by drought. These funds will help increase community and landscape resiliency while restoring habitats and assisting in … [continued]
My experience watching the transition from fossil fuelled transport to electric vehicles has taught me that there is always some basis for the FUD. A quoted statistic, that 1 in 3 drivers are supposedly giving up on EVs and going back to petrol, has some truth. However, what I usually … [continued]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to charge your electric vehicle (EV) as your drive down the highway? Well, folks in Central Florida will get the chance in a couple of years on a new highway in Lake County and Orange County. In-road charging will replenish batteries … [continued]
For some time, I have been met with pitchforks over declaring the safety of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS). The shortest articulation for this measure is to not crash, or to not perform maneuvers that could cause you or others to crash. But is there any data to back up … [continued]
