Tina Casey specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Tina’s articles are reposted frequently on Reuters, Scientific American, and many other sites. Views expressed are her own. Follow her on Twitter @TinaMCasey and Google+.
September 18th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
There they go again: US Energy Dept. pumps $50 million into new grid reliability projects including renewables, renewables and more renewables
September 17th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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
September 15th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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.
September 13th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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.
September 11th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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.
September 11th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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
September 6th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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
September 5th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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.
August 28th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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.
August 24th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
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!
August 22nd, 2017 | by Tina Casey
A big buzz is generating around a tiny bacteria that can be tricked out with tiny solar panels and turned into a miniature factory for biofuel and more
August 21st, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Dream on, Klingons: a low cost, 500-mile energy storage solution for electric vehicles might not happen by 2020 -- but it probably will happen, eventually
August 17th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Influential Trump advisor and climate change denier Steven Bannon could (finally) get the boot after dissing white nationalists in a freewheeling interview
August 15th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
A California electricity provider is making EVs cheaper -- way cheaper in Sonoma and Mendocino counties -- with free home chargers to boot
August 11th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
The dream of shipping endless watts of solar power from the Sahara Desert to Europe is still alive thanks to Tunisia and Nur Energie
August 10th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
More bad news for coal: new record-breaking perovskite solar cell from Belgium's IMEC is designed with high volume manufacturing in mind
August 9th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Three new wind energy reports paint a rosy picture of the US wind industry, and Energy Sec'y Rick Perry wants everybody to notice
August 7th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
As tension mounts over a supposedly coal-friendly grid study, the Energy Dept. launches a program aimed squarely at killing off coal power plants
August 7th, 2017 | by Tina Casey
Trump talks up fossil fuels, but his own DOE forges ahead with a new energy storage initiative aimed squarely at pumping up EV range and cutting costs
August 2nd, 2017 | by Tina Casey
US President and golfer-in-chief Donald Trump represents himself as a great deal maker, but he's striking out on plans for his golf resort in Scotland
