The US solar developer BlueWave has launched a suite of five agrivoltaics projects in Massachusetts, including a community solar angle that benefits local ratepayers as well as farmers.
Participants Gained Blue Economy Connections and Real-World Experience in the NREL-Managed Competition
This fifth round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects involve solar PV plus agriculture and small innovative solar PV and CSP projects.
More good news for renewables: US Energy Department hatches plan to pepper US farms with crop-friendly solar panels.
Washington, D.C. — Today the U.S. Department of Energy announced that eight teams have been selected to participate in the second round of the Solar Energy Innovation Network, a program that supports multi-stakeholder teams pursuing new applications of solar energy and other distributed energy resources in unique locations and contexts.
Continued technological advancements are expected to continue reducing the cost of wind energy, according to a new survey of leading wind experts conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to a new article published in the journal Nature Energy, Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs, the results of a survey … [continued]
America’s transition to a clean energy economy could create 2.7 million green jobs and cut emissions 40% for less than we already spend on fossil fuels.
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peebles Squire The turbines have been tested, the judges have weighed in on their engineering, and now, all that remains is what some would consider the hardest part of the process: selling your product. The 10 teams in the Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind … [continued]
First Wind, an independent US-based wind energy company, announced on Monday the beginning of construction on a 17 MW solar project in Massachusetts. The new projects will be built across the Warren and Millbury communities of Massachusetts, and upon completion will have enough combined electricity to power the equivalent of … [continued]
We just finished getting all excited about a new Department of Energy project for teasing renewable hydrogen fuel out of municipal wastewater, when along comes Stanford University with a neat little wastewater trick of its own. The Stanford project involves harnessing a curiously evolved trait of exoelectrogenic microbes. These naturally … [continued]
