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

1. 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. ...

2. IdaTech Announces Third Expansion of Fuel Cell Technology Deployment in Indonesia with Cascadiant
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

IdaTech has announced the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on the Indonesian islands of ... ...

3. Community-Centric Approach to Biomass Energy Necessary
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... more beneficial to local economies over the long haul, said Bill Gabler, Project Director of New Hampshire-based Clean Power Development at a Biomass conference in Boston yesterday. ...

4. Trends in Biomass: Opportunities for Global Equipment Suppliers in Asia
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Over the last 10 years, there has been a considerable change in biomass power generation in Asia. Indeed, owing to the scarcity and cost of biomass fuel, most power plants are in fact designed for multi-fuel ...

5. 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. ...

6. Nuclear Fusion
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Fusion power is the power generated by nuclear fusion reactions. In this kind of reaction, two light atomic nuclei fuse together to form a heavier nucleus and in doing so, release a large amount of energy. ...

7. Republicans running for Ga. gov support nuke power (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Both Republicans running for Georgia governor say they support the use of nuclear power in a state that could see the nation's first nuclear reactor in a generation, and one candidate wants the country ...

8. Nuclear Fusion
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Fusion power is the power generated by nuclear fusion reactions. In this kind of reaction, two light atomic nuclei fuse together to form a heavier nucleus and in doing so, release a large amount of energy. ...

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

... the market. Hydroelectric power, wind energy, and natural gas picked up most of the market share coal lost in 2009.[i] Higher [...] ...

10. Protein linked to aging may boost memory and learning ability
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... can also boost memory and brainpower — a finding that could lead to new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders. Sirtuins’ effects on brain function, including learning and memory, ...

11. Scientists Revisit Power from Potatoes
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

This could very well be the magic formula for future power generation. Yes, scientists are busy crafting what is now called as “solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes.” ...

12. Enel Opens Hydrogen Power Plant
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Enel have announced the opening of first hydrogen-fuelled power plant in Italy. The new plant located in Fusina has a generation ... ...

13. Japan Successfully Deploys a Solar Sail in Space
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

Japan's space agency has successfully deployed a "solar sail" on the first spacecraft employing both photon propulsion and thin-film solar power generation. And, European engineers are planning an all-night ...

14. UTC Transit Bus Fuel Cell System Surpasses 7,000 Hours
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

UTC Power has announced it has set durability records for its latest generation transit bus fuel cell system.A PureMotion® Model 120 ... ...

15. The Nuclear Power Resurgence: How Safe Are the New Reactors?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

As utilities seek to build new nuclear power plants in the U.S. and around the world, the latest generation of reactors feature improvements over older technologies. But even as attention focuses on nuclear ...

16. Wind Integration: Does It Reduce Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

... cycling where the introduction of wind power into a generation system that uses carbon technologies to back-up the wind  actually reduces the energy efficiency [...] ...

17. PSNH Signs 70-MW Bioenergy PPA
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Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) has reached agreement with Laidlaw Berlin BioPower LLC, an affiliate of Laidlaw Energy Group, Inc., to purchase the energy from a proposed wood-fired power generation ...

18. American Municipal Power and Standard Energy Announce 300 Megawatt Solar Energy Development
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Standard Energy, LLC (AMP) and American Municipal Power, Inc., an affiliate of Standard Solar, today announced an agreement for the development of up to 300 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy generation ...

19. 3 Questions: Noelle Selin on curbing mercury
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... from coal-fired power plants in the context of the increasing demand for energy, and dealing with local impacts of mercury contamination. The single largest source of anthropogenic mercury emissions is ...

20. Hydrogen Company AlumiFuel Signs Partnership Agreement with Ingenium Tech
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

Hydrogen generation company AlumiFuel Power, Inc. announced today that it has signed a comprehensive Partnership Agreement with Ingenium ... ...

21. 'You can’t play it safe and win’
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the graduating class, commended the students’ altruism. That, coupled with the power of an MIT education, can create a powerful force for positive change. And such change, she said, is needed now more ...

22. Ray Stata's Commencement address
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... of the company and the goals of employees, and we encouraged employees to think about the company’s success as a prerequisite to their own. Empowering people to make decisions and to take ownership is ...

23. President Hockfield's charge to the graduates
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... Global Lab program, or G-lab, have used their newfound business skills to magnify the power of fledgling enterprises, like developing a scalable business model for food carts that deliver nutritious meals ...

24. Energy: In the Land of the Loch Ness Monster,' Sea Snake' Prepares to Ride the Waves
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

Pelamis is the second generation of "wave energy converters" designed by Pelamis Wave Power Ltd. After some rough sailing, it is beginning to catch on. The machine in the water was ordered and is now owned ...

25. TEP Signs 160-MW of Renewables PPAs
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has agreed to purchase the output of 10 new solar power systems, a landfill gas generation project and a new wind farm that together will have an installed capacity of close ...

26. ‘Efficiency Forward'
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... systems whenever those incentives cost less than the cost to generate the electricity to power the less-efficient equipment. Susan Coakley of Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, a nonprofit that ...

27. Energy answer: Blowing in the wind?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

When the federal government approved the Cape Wind project in April, allowing 130 power-generating turbines to be placed in the waters off Cape Cod, it gave a significant boost to the prospects of wind ...

28. Explained: The Carnot Limit
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... which held that an invisible fluid of that name carried heat from one object to another.   Carnot’s 1824 book “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire” laid out a set of principles that, in some cases, ...

29. Co-firing Biomass with Coal
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As nations focus on controlling carbon, global demand for and production of coal-based electricity continues to increase. According to the International Energy Agency, the world's power demands are expected ...

30. Building the Next Generation
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

As the economy recovers attention returns to one of the most pressing challenges facing the electric power generation industry: its workforce. ...