Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. Schneider Electric to showcase solutions at the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Schneider Electric announced today its participation at the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), the world's largest international conference for solar technology, ...

2. UTC Power announces fuel cell installation at Albertsons supermarket
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego community of Clairemont will generate nearly 90 percent of the electricity it needs with a ... ...

3. Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., recently to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants ...

4. Hezbollah urges power-starved Lebanon to build nuclear plant (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on Lebanon to consider building a nuclear power plant in the energy-starved nation.

5. Summary Box: Quiet Prius will have noisier option (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - WHEN QUIET IS A PROBLEM: Hybrid cars, powered by a combination of gasoline and electric motors, can run on electricity and are far quieter than cars with traditional gasoline engines. That has drawn ...

6. Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., recently to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants ...

7. Batteries Are the Shocking Truth about Electric Cars
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

President Barack Obama flew to Holland, Mich., recently to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for a new lithium-ion battery plant, which the White House advertised as an example of federal stimulus grants ...

8. Tribal Lands Struggle To Bring Clean Power Online
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Many tribal lands in the U.S. don't have electricity yet have a tremendous capacity to produce it from clean energy sources. Only one tribe is currently operating a utility-scale energy facility, as bureaucratic ...

9. A hop, skip and a jump on the moon — and beyond
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... downward-pointing electric ducted fans that provide lift to counter the vehicle’s weight and simulate the gravity environments of different planetary bodies. The second system uses compressed nitrogen ...

10. Low Prices for Wind Power PPA Kill Idaho Power Deal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Low prices for power purchase agreements helped kill plans by Idaho Power to buy 150 MW of wind powered electric generation through a request for proposal (RFP) process. ...

11. Finland aims to build first ever green highway (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

12. A (Load) Balancing Act: The Challenge Of Clean Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

As new solar and wind energy projects come online in California, electricity grid operators are struggling to smooth out the irregularities in power that come from renewable sources. They are exploring ...

13. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... system to offer electricity for commercial and residential applications. There are many methods available to try to increase their output. There is now a new entrant to the realm of solar panel accessories ...

14. China province cuts power to 500 factories (AFP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AFP - Authorities in eastern China have cut off electricity to more than 500 factories for a month after they failed to meet emission reduction targets, state media reported Monday.  ...

15. Standard Solar to Bring Solar Energy to University of Delaware
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Standard Solar, Inc., the East Coast's premier full-service developer, integrator and installer of solar electric systems, today announced that it will install solar power at the University of Delaware ...

16. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... system to offer electricity for commercial and residential applications. There are many methods available to try to increase their output. There is now a new entrant to the realm of solar panel accessories ...

17. Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes his state will generate a third of its electricity from renewable power by 2020. It's an ambitious goal that will take an unprecedented effort. But economic and bureaucratic ...

18. All charged up
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

A team of MIT students has been working on testing a rapid-recharging system that could help to change public perceptions about electric vehicles and their practicality. They have already done extensive ...

19. How to Make the Most of Solar Power
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

... system to offer electricity for commercial and residential applications. There are many methods available to try to increase their output. There is now a new entrant to the realm of solar panel accessories ...

20. Clean energy: China charges ahead of world
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Inside China's massive, $220 million pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, exhibits charting that nation's path toward modernization start with the humble transistor radio and end with electric cars and homegrown ...

21. Jamaica Gleaner News - A remarkable turnaround in nuclear power
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

There seems no end to the increasing demand for energy. Global electricity consumption is expected to grow by over 50 per cent over the next 25 years with most of the energy still coming from fossil fuels ...

22. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

23. Solar Futures
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Solar power is the generation of electricity from sunlight. This can be direct as with photovoltaics, or indirect as with concentrating the sun's rays to boil water which is then used to provide power. ...

24. Silicon can be made to melt in reverse
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... tiny tubes that are highly conductive to heat and electricity. Buonassisi predicted in a 2007 paper that it should be possible to induce retrograde melting in silicon, but the conditions needed to produce ...

25. Renewable Power Users and Sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... In 2008, about 19% of global final energy consumption came from renewables, with 13% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.2% from hydroelectricity. The EPA has just ...

26. First Factory Built Solar Charging Station
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

International Green Energy Expo Korea 2010 was chosen as the venue where SunPods SP-300 was first displayed. This is the first factory built-to-order solar-powered integrated electric-vehicle charging ...

27. Explained: Bandgap
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... together in the same direction, they form an electric current. Electrons in an atom can be thought of as being somewhere in an array of possible “states” — which include their energy level, momentum and ...

28. Electricity Generation: Coal’s Share down in 2009, Lowest since 1978
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

In the electricity-generation market of 2009, coal generation had only a 44 .6 percent share, 3.6 percentage points lower than in 2008 and the lowest level since 1978 when it represented 44.2 percent of ...

29. US Forest Service Approves SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has received approval to move forward with construction of the approximately US $1.9 billion, 120-mile Sunrise Powerlink transmission line from the Department of Agriculture's ...

30. President Obama Focuses on Advanced Battery and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... nationwide where work has begun constructing new manufacturing plants, adding new manufacturing lines, building electric vehicles, and installing electric vehicle charging stations.  ...