Solar, Wind, Hydropower: Home Renewable Energy Installations. Source: DOE
Authors Note: Join us on Earth Day, April 22nd for a Google+ Hangout – we’ll be answering your questions about installing renewable energy systems at home. More information at Energy.gov/EarthDay. When...
View ArticleOn the Path to Low Cost Renewable Fuels, an Important Breakthrough, Source: DOE
America’s homegrown fuel resources — from wood chips to the leaves and stalks of corn plants — are plentiful. Research finds that these resources could produce enough clean, renewable fuel to replace...
View ArticleTop 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Fuel Cells, Source: DOE
This article is part of the Energy.gov series highlighting the “Top Things You Didn’t Know About…” Be sure to check back for more entries soon. 11. Similar to a battery, a fuel cell is a device that...
View ArticleMiddle Schoolers Shine in Electric Car Races, Source: NREL
May 24, 2013 Put a solar or lithium-ion car in the hands of a middle-school student, and watch adolescent angst and eye-rolling disappear — at least for a few hours. “This is the best,” said a boy from...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia Looks to NREL for Solar Monitoring Expertise, Source: NREL
Saudi Arabia is planning to move aggressively into renewable energy, with plans to install more solar and wind power in the next 20 years than the rest of the world has installed to date. The Kingdom...
View ArticleNREL Teams with Navy, Private Industry to Make Jet Fuel from Switchgrass,...
Project could spur jobs in rural America, lead to less reliance of foreign oil The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Cobalt Technologies, U.S. Navy, and...
View ArticleAt NREL, Sustainability Goes Beyond Campus, Source: NREL
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) relies on a team of sustainability experts to make sure the lab “walks the talk.” From its ultra energy-efficient buildings to its...
View ArticleNREL Fills Key Leadership Role for Energy Systems Integration, Source: NREL
Bryan J. Hannegan will join the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory on June 24 as associate laboratory director for Energy Systems Integration, a critical area of research and...
View ArticleNREL Offers an Open-Source Solution for Large-Scale Energy Data Collection...
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is launching an open-source system for storing, integrating, and aligning energy-related time-series data. NREL’s Energy DataBus is...
View ArticleNREL Reports 31.1% Efficiency for III-V Solar Cell, Source: NREL
Conversion-efficiency mark is a world record for a two-junction solar cell measured under one-sun illumination The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of...
View ArticleNREL Drives Toward the Future with Fuel Cell EVs, Source: NREL
Efforts currently underway at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are contributing to rapid progress in the research, development and testing of hydrogen and fuel cell...
View ArticleMicroorganisms found in salt flats could offer new path to green hydrogen...
ARGONNE, Ill. – A protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats could offer a new way of using sunlight to generate environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel,...
View ArticleNREL Report Firms Up Land-Use Requirements of Solar, Source: NREL
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report on the land use requirements of solar power plants based on actual land-use practices from existing solar...
View ArticleAeroVironment Solar-Powered Puma AE Small Unmanned Aircraft Achieves...
Groundbreaking development in the evolution of small unmanned aircraft systems; advanced solar cells increase hand-launched Puma AE™ endurance by 350 percent Far-reaching implications for small UAS...
View ArticleSummer demand taxes Saudi power sector, but kingdom is working on solutions
By International Energy Agency (IEA) The hot sun that drives the seasonal surge also provides a renewable remedy Saudi Arabia abounds, of course, in energy resources, but a new source of demand is...
View ArticleNREL Software Tool a Boon for Wind Industry
Wind energy is blowing away skeptics—it’s so close to achieving cost parity with fossil fuels that just a little extra efficiency is all that is likely needed to push it into the mainstream and past...
View ArticlePG&E Plans to Offer Customers a Community Solar Choice in 2015
SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today received permission from state regulators to offer electric customers a new clean energy program that will provide up to 100 percent...
View ArticleNREL Report Estimates Market Potential of Shared Solar and Discusses Relevant...
Analysis from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) finds that by making shared solar programs available to households and businesses that currently cannot host on-site...
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