Solar energy has been identified as a potential low-cost and highly-efficient means of providing electricity to those in off-grid, remote areas, but a new study has concluded that with little access to financial resources, new business models will be required to make this happen.
Spanish wind energy giant Gamesa has launched a “pioneering” offgrid solution to supply power to remote areas without grid access. Announced this week, Gamesa will now offer an offgrid power system which combines solar, wind, diesel, and batteries, with an installed capacity of over 2 MW, which will provide reliable … [continued]
Our old friends over at Americans for Prosperity must have had an epiphany of sorts. In its effort to lobby against a federal tax credit for wind power, the group has come out with a policy statement that calls for an end to oil subsidies. Specifically, AFP argues that energy … [continued]
Hey, maybe we can drink our way out of this mess after all. ARPA-E, the Energy Department’s cutting-edge technology funding branch, has just released grants totaling $66 million for transformative automotive and energy projects, and among the goodies is a cutting-edge process to extract magnesium from seawater. The overall concept … [continued]
Reposted from EERE: The Energy Department on March 22 announced that approximately $40 million from its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available for two new programs to develop technologies that shift U.S. cars and trucks from reliance on oil. One program will develop cost-effective and energy-efficient manufacturing … [continued]
