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

1. 3TIER Brings Advanced Solar Products to India
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

3TIER,® the global leader in renewable energy information services, today announced that its complete suite of solar prospecting and assessment products is now available throughout India. The products ...

2. Massachusetts Study Recognizes Significant Benefits of Biomass Thermal Energy
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

"Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study", a recently released report commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) and authored by the Manomet Center for Conservation ...

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

... (This factors in the federal government’s renewable energy production tax credit, worth 2.1 cents per kilowatt-hour.) To calculate costs, the MIT team first received detailed data about current and next-generation ...

4. The Never Ending Renewable Energy Handout
(Feed Articles / Institute for Energy Research)

Senate Committee seeks to make renewable energy handout “permanent” Washington, D.C. – Acknowledging that some sources of energy just can’t cut it on their own, the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Energy, ...

5. CanGEA responds to Grasby and Majorowicz report
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

A recent report by Stephen Grasby and Jacek Majorowicz estimated that all of Canada's power needs could potentially be met by developing Canada's deep geothermal resources through enhanced geothermal ...

6. New State-by-State Wind Power Data Helps Build a Green Grid
(Feed Articles / ENN - Top Environmental Stories)

New wind resource maps and wind potential tables for the lower 48 states were recently released by AWS Truewind in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This new data marks ...

7. Time for Eco-Citizens to Declare Global Transformation
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

The struggle with overreliance on traditional fuels for our energy needs is becoming ever more apparent. Political instability, depleting resources and rocketing energy costs have all negatively impacted ...

8. DOE Marks Earth Day with New Online Resources for Clean Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

DOE is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with special Web pages featuring information on how to save energy and use renewable energy. Among the features are animations about U.S. energy ...

9. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Environmental Science and Technology)

... bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could consume in a year. I firmly believe that India should accelerate the use of all forms of Renewable Energy (photovoltaic, thermal solar, ...

10. Solar Panels Give Back to the Environment by Making a Completely Solar Home
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

... its nonrenewable resources. ...

11. How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
(Feed Articles / ENN - Energy Research News)

... bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could consume in a year. I firmly believe that India should accelerate the use of all forms of Renewable Energy (photovoltaic, thermal solar, ...

12. Report: Tribes key in renewable energy development (AP)
(Feed Articles / Yahoo - Environment News)

AP - American Indian tribes have huge potential to develop renewable energy resources on their lands but first must overcome a number of challenges, namely financial, according to a report released Tu ...

13. Skyscrapers Give Back to the Environment with Solar Energy Use
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Solar panel development brings solar energy to large companies by switching from windows to solar panels. Skyscrapers can now run on energy from to sun in order to protect earth's nonrenewable resour ...

14. India & Turkey on Track To Be Wind Powers
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

India and Turkey are both poised to become world players in the wind industry thanks to good wind resources, growing demand for electricity and emerging political frameworks to support the development ...

15. America’s Premiere Wave Power Farm Sets Sail
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

Wave energy is among the impressive list of renewable energy resources that is being developed in the United States. New Jersey-based developer, Ocean Power Technologies has launched a project that ...

16. Interior Department Awards $3.7 Million to 13 Tribes for Renewable Energy
(Feed Articles / EERE - Energy Research News)

The U.S. Department of Interior has awarded $3.7 million to 13 tribes to support their development of geothermal, biomass, and hydroelectric power resources. The tribes are located in the states of ...

17. Wind resistance
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

Wind power has emerged as a viable renewable energy source in recent years — one that proponents say could lessen the threat of global warming. Although the American Wind Energy Association estimates that ...

18. Action needed to save climate, create jobs
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... systems because they believe those will cost them money, but they support renewable energy standards — requiring utilities to provide a set percentage of their power from renewable energy — because they ...

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

... class work.” Energy solutions Slocum is also working with students to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing the world: meeting growing energy demand with renewable sources that don’t add greenhouse ...

20. 3TIER Completes REmapping the World™
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

3TIER® today announced the completion of its REmapping the World ™ initiative, which was launched in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to global renewable energy adoption – the lack of reliable ...

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

... be a enormous contributor to the world’s renewable energy portfolio,” says Curt Robinson, executive director of the Geothermal Resources Council in Davis, Calif., a nonprofit educational group. He says ...

22. US Renewable Energy Industry Needs the Heat in Biomass
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

... – to promote energy resources that are efficient and renewable. As part of the broader renewable energy solution, biomass thermal can uniquely address the need for low-cost, locally supported energy  ...

23. Sustainable Energy Fund Launches New Program to Acquire $20 million in Environmental Attributes
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) announced its planned acquisition of more than $20 million in environmental attributes to support the development of small scale renewable energy generation resources such ...

24. Renewable Energy ‘Supergrid’ coming to Europe
(Feed Articles / Alternative Energy News Top Stories)

UK’s energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt shares his opinion, “We recognise that the North Sea has huge resources, we are exploiting those in the UK quite intensively at the moment. ...

25. The Green Rush Is On In China
(Feed Articles / NPR - Environment News)

China has emerged as the world's top producer of solar panels, and Western companies are eager to cash in on the country's urgent drive for renewable energy resources. It has the Obama administration  ...

26. Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

There’s one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn’t shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That’s why ...

27. One word: bioplastics
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... consumer products such as personal care products, gift cards and pens. Products like these, along with existing bioplastic products, tap into a “growing interest in materials that can be made from renewable ...

28. 3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
(Feed Articles / MIT - Energy Research News)

... the reduction targets, the possibility of banking or borrowing of permits over time, the amounts of offsets, and any additional measures directed at greenhouse gas reduction, such as renewable electricity ...

29. SEPA Boosts Solar Electric Power Build-out with New Resources
(Feed Articles / REW - Green Power News)

Online solar tools and other resources customized for utility executives, employees and solar industry leaders

30. States Can Generate Their Own Renewable Energy To Meet Their RPS
(Feed Articles / REW - Bioenergy News)

U.S. states do not need to seek energy imports to meet their renewable energy goals. That's the conclusion of a new report from the 35-year-old Institute for Local Self-Reliance entitled Energy Self-Reliant ...