Between the week ending March 20 and the week ending April 24, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a total of 17.5 million barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), according to data in our Weekly Petroleum Status Report. DOE released 7.1 million barrels in the … [continued]
In First Rooftop Demo, Startup, Investors, and Researchers Test Roof Coating’s Potential To Cool, Protect, and Lower Energy Bills for a New Jersey Warehouse What do a Texas data center, a New Jersey warehouse, and a police academy in Arizona have in common? They all have roofs. OK, not surprising. … [continued]
Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]
West Virginians Are On the Hook to Pay DOE for Short-Sighted Projects with Big Health Impacts CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Following two postponements, the West Virginia Department of Commerce has informed Sierra Club’s West Virginia Chapter that there are “no non-exempt records” responsive to the Club’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) … [continued]
ATLANTA — The Department of Energy announced it will give a $26.5 billion loan to Southern Company to build the largest, most expensive gas fleet in the nation. The loan will pay for Southern Company’s subsidiary, Georgia Power, plans to build a massive amount of new gas-burning infrastructure, including new combined cycle turbines … [continued]
Twenty-four locations have been documented in the DOE Office of Geothermal’s Geothermal Heat Pump Case Study Yearbook. Green pins indicate the most recently published case studies. Image by National Laboratory of the Rockies.
5 New Case Studies Add to Database of Geothermal Systems Installed Across the Nation By Becca Sweet, NLR The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Geothermal (OG) has published five new case studies on a variety of geothermal heating and cooling applications. These case studies, researched and written by the … [continued]
NLR researchers Ravi Kishore (left) and Erick Moreno Resendiz test their deployable thermomagnetic generator, which is designed to convert thermal energy from the ocean into electrical energy. This innovative technology aims to power a diverse range of sensors using the Curie effect. Photo by Agata Bogucka, National Laboratory of the Rockies.
Compact Thermomagnetic Generator Delivers Continuous Electricity Using Natural Temperature Differences Between Ocean Water and Air The key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has its origins in the 19th century imaginations of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. … [continued]
Washington, DC — Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office. Sierra Club lawyers launched a robust Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) accountability effort one year ago, at the start of the second … [continued]
Energy efficiency is the main focus of a new $155 million Energy Department funding pot aimed at improving the competitiveness of key US industrial sectors (screenshot via US Department of Energy).
Energy efficiency is the main focus of a new Energy Department effort to help improve competitiveness in key US industrial sectors.
A new compact, containerized energy storage system can store up solar power during the day and deliver it for more than 100 hours at a time, day or night (cropped, courtesy of Noon Energy).
A new compact, containerized energy storage system can store up solar power and deliver it for more than 100 hours at a time, day or night.
