Successful Projects Will Help Lower Cost of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power and Support the Next Generation of Highly Trained Workers Heliostats are large mirrors that track the sun to reflect and direct its rays—and they are critical for efficient, cost-effective concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants. When hundreds or thousands of heliostats … [continued]
Despite having the potential to cover 13.6% of the national electricity demand, rooftop solar arrays currently account for just 2.2% of the electricity grid mix.
This second round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects we’re looking at concern Systems Integration and AI Applications in Solar Energy with Emphasis on Machine Learning. Below are DOE summaries of how it intends to help on these topics as well as awardee details from the DOE.
Three new research breakthroughs are bring the advent of “electricity too cheap to meter” closer and closer.
The Nikola Motor Company is working to change the way humans get around with its array of electrified vehicle offerings. This week, the company announced that it was awarded a $1.7 million grant to research the fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) development.
Now that we’re about to cross the finish line of Tesla’s first master plan, this also marks the end of the Model 3 Scoffathon. Let’s pause and reflect on the sage words of various experts who flashed their credentials and then swore up and down that Tesla would never get here, to the high-volume $35,000 car. Sure, the car hasn’t materialized in volume quite yet, but we’re on the home stretch.
In the 2016 “Solar Spring Break,” over 100 students from 10 US colleges will be taking on the task of installing rooftop solar for low-income families, and learning as they work. The program runs through March 25. Students will connect with clean energy at Solar Spring Break — an alternative spring break … [continued]
“Accelerating the penetration of renewable energy into the national and global energy portfolio is among the most important technical and social challenges of our time.” So says Andrew Myers, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, who also studies offshore wind structures and runs Northeastern’s Sustainable Structures … [continued]
Students at Northeastern University in Boston are working on a process that breaks down recycled plastics to create fuel, providing enough energy to run itself with some left over, too. Because it vaporizes plastic rather than burning it, the process also creates less emissions than conventional combustion. The students and … [continued]
