Offshore Wind Miracle Happening In USA
Louisiana pursues a total of three offshore wind opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico to break up the red state – blue state breakdown.
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We Can’t Let Aging Transmission Stall Clean Energy Progress
This Blog is part of NRDC’s Year-End Series Reviewing 2023 Climate & Clean Energy Developments. For more than a century, our power grids have served as the backbone of a system that has underpinned economic activity by delivering energy to homes, businesses, and industry. But the network was designed in … [continued]
Year in Review for DOE Clean Energy Innovation and Outlooks for 2024
Congress must protect and extend clean energy innovation policies to advance an equitable, prosperous, and just energy transition. Clean energy innovation remains an essential pillar of the energy transition. Clean energy innovation remains an essential pillar of the clean energy transition. In 2023, we witnessed numerous exciting developments out of … [continued]
Will Pipelines Be Repurposed For HVDC Transmission?
This question is asked regularly of me these days. After all, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) is the new pipeline, doesn’t care if it’s run underwater, underground or through a steel pipe, and the millions of kilometers of pipelines in the world are going to be decommissioned at an accelerating rate … [continued]
Molten Tin Deployed For Lithium-Free Energy Storage
New lithium-free energy storage system deploys molten tin and thermophotovoltaic technology to generate electricity with no moving parts.
Amazon & NREL Team Up On GHG Emissions Analysis
Corporations are starting to pay close attention to their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but current calculations only provide a coarse estimate of their entire GHG emissions. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Amazon, the largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide since 2020, are working … [continued]
Behind the Blades: Vahan Gevorgian’s 3-Decade Clean Energy Odyssey
Q&A With Vahan Gevorgian, Senior Research Fellow and Chief Engineer at NREL Twenty-nine years ago, Vahan Gevorgian was a postdoctoral researcher studying wind and hybrid energy systems at the State Engineering University of Armenia when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented itself. Ken Touryan, a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researcher who was supporting … [continued]
Born in a Flood: The Epic Story of the Controllable Grid Interface
NREL Researchers Celebrate 10 Years of Replicating Grid Events To Strengthen Renewable Energy Technologies In September 2013, a team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers, led by Vahan Gevorgian and Robb Wallen, faced a looming deadline. Not only did the brand-new 5-megawatt (MW) dynamometer need to be up and running, connected … [continued]
Recyclable, Plant-Based Material Could Take a Spin on Next Generation of Wind Turbines
About three years ago, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers Robynne Murray, Nicholas Rorrer, and their team set out on a mission to make an easily recycled resin to serve as the central glue holding a wind turbine blade together. They began by formulating their resin in thimble-sized vials at the lab … [continued]
Gas-Killing Flow Battery Deploys Table Salt For Long Duration Energy Storage
Statkraft is evaluating a new flow battery based on table salt to pull more wind and solar power into the grid.
