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

1. EPA to Phase in CO2 emissions permits/BACT for mid-sized sources
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

The Obama administration will give small businesses a break on coming carbon dioxide emissions rules but big emitters like coal-fired power plants will face a crack-down, U.S. Environmental Protection ...

2. In Profile: Alex Slocum
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... attached to the seafloor beneath the floating windmills — that pump out water when the windmill is producing excess power and then allow water to flow back in, through a generating turbine, when power ...

3. ENERGY: Coal-Fired Power on the Way Out?
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

The past two years have witnessed the emergence of a powerful movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States. ...

4. Entergy Corp. runs into hurdles with spinoff plan (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - Power provider Entergy Corp.'s proposal to spin off its wholesale nuclear power plants into a separate company has run into snags long past the time it had hoped to close the deal. ...

5. Cell-inspired electronics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... about 10 million energy-consuming chemical reactions, which altogether require about one picowatt (one millionth millionth of a watt) of power. MIT's Rahul Sarpeshkar is now applying architectural principles ...

6. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

7. DOE Awards Nearly $1.4 Billion in Loan Guarantees to BrightSource Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE has awarded a conditional loan guarantee for nearly $1.4 billion to BrightSource Energy for three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants in southeastern California. Pending regulatory approval, ...

8. DNR: More Wis. power plants violate Clean Air Act (AP)
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AP - At least five more state-run power plants are not in compliance with federal clean air regulations and need to install tighter pollution controls, Gov. Jim Doyle's administration acknowledged Fri ...

9. To date 25,000t of CO2 Emissions Avoided by Photovoltaic Plants Arsol-1 and Arsol Toledo
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... highly efficient clean energy with a total of 15 MW of power. ...

10. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

11. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

12. Business groups challenge EPA on greenhouse gases (AP)
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AP - Several prominent business groups have joined a growing list of organizations and states challenging the federal government's finding that climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories ...

13. Manchin argues against coal ash regulation (AP)
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AP - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate coal ash from power plants as hazardous waste. ...

14. Obama unveils plans to build new nuclear power plants (AFP)
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AFP - President Barack Obama Tuesday laid an eight billion dollar bet on nuclear power, unveiling loan guarantees to spur construction on the first new US plant since a notorious accident 30 years ago. ...

15. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

16. What's stopping us getting solar power from deserts?
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward  ...

17. California's global-warming law Under Attack
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state's unemployment rate drops. ...

18. A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... policy measures to address these issues. He recommended a shift of research and development funding away from new energy sources and toward lowering the emissions of existing fossil-fuel power plants, ...

19. FuelCell Energy appoints new SVP and CCO
(Feed Articles / FuelCell - Top News on Fuel Cells)

FuelCell Energy, Inc., a Connecticut-based fuel cell developer specialising in power plants, has announced the appointment of Chip Bottone ... ...

20. Solar Cells from Tobacco Plants May Be a Reality Soon
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

... Berkeley. It will be nice to see tobacco used for something other than lung cancer. This new discovery is based [...] Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

21. Rounds says he pushed for SD in energy meeting (AP)
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AP - Gov. Mike Rounds said Thursday he pushed for federal action that would help South Dakota develop ethanol plants and wind-generated electrical power when he met this week with President Barack Obama ...

22. Obama's nuclear power policy: a study in contradictions? (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama has followed up on his support for "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants," laid out Jan. 27 in his State of the Union speech, by proposing ...

23. Green Groups Oppose Obama On Nuclear Power
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

President Obama's proposed 2011 budget would triple the money available to companies who build nuclear power facilities. Obama supports nuclear energy as a way to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. ...

24. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

Up to now, the more than 28 desalination plants scattered around the Kingdom have had to rely of fossil fuel, most notably fuel oil, to provide to power to run the equipment used to extract salt and other ...

25. Saudi Arabia to Replace Oil with Sun Power for Desalination Plants
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

Up to now, the more than 28 desalination plants scattered around the Kingdom have had to rely of fossil fuel, most notably fuel oil, to provide to power to run the equipment used to extract salt and other ...

26. Frim hopes to build big solar plant in western AZ
(Feed Articles / NewsVine - Alternative Energy Feed)

An Arizona company wants to build one of the largest solar power plants in the country in western Arizona's Mohave County. ...

27. Trends & Innovations - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Tobacco plants could play a part in the production of solar power cells, says a Discovery News report citing research at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. Genetically engineered ...

28. Power from down under
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the evaluation of geothermal sites, assessing both the potential power output and any potential risks, such as the triggering of seismic activity. Such triggering has already resulted in the premature ...

29. Levitating magnet brings space physics to fusion
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... as a new way of creating a power-producing plant based on nuclear fusion — the process that generates the sun’s prodigious output of energy. Fusion has been a cherished goal of physicists and energy researchers ...

30. Ky. Senate passes bill to allow nuclear plants (AP)
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AP - Legislation to lift Kentucky's ban on the construction of nuclear power plants steamed through the Senate on Wednesday but could get unplugged in the House. ...