How Big Can Offshore Wind Turbines Go? 25 MW And More, That’s How Big
A new wave of supersized, morphing wind turbines will help cut costs for the US offshore wind industry, if it can survive the next four years.
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Coal State Killing Coal With Solar Power, One Megawatt At A Time
West Virginia is still a solar power wallflower, but signs of change have been blowing in the wind as new businesses demand clean energy.
Strange Goop Resolves Sticky Perovskite Solar Cell Problems
The Canadian startup XlynX aims to improve perovskite solar cells with a new advanced adhesive.
eV2g Marks Milestone, Selling Electricity From EV Test Fleet To PJM Grid
A distributed power-clean energy milestone was reached late last week as leaders from government and industry joined officials from the University of Delaware and NRG energy to celebrate the first instance of electric vehicle-to-grid (EV2G) technology being used to sell electricity to the power grid. Ongoing success could well provide a critical missing link on the path to a clean, green, renewable and distributed energy infrastructure, economy, and society.
Clean Energy on the High Seas: Solar-Powered Trimaran Sets Off on Eastern US Circumnavigation
A wave of renewable energy and cleantech innovation is being unleashed on the waves, as well as on land and in the air, including a US crew’s attempt at the first solar-powered circumnavigation of the eastern US. […]
On the Right Track: Green Buildings, Clean Energy News Highlights Obama’s Energy Policy
Leadership from the Obama Administration has set the federal government on the right track in terms of energy use and management while also engaging state and local government, private sector businesses and local public interest groups in efforts to boost energy efficiency and clean energy use. Two announcements this week drive the point home.
Clean Energy: The Sky’s the Limit
I think we’ve covered all of the technologies and stories mentioned in this guest post below, but it is a nice summary of some recent clean energy news and a nice “step back and take a broader look at things” kind of piece that I think is worth sharing, so here it is!
ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar Talks Clean Energy (VIDEO)
The U.S. pioneered many of the clean energy technologies used today around the world. But five years ago, when an elite group of scientists warned America was falling behind foreign competitors, Congress responded by creating the Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA-E, to help fund the development of breakthrough energy technologies.
