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US Funding For Solar–Hydro Hybrid Energy, Microgrid, Grid Storage, & Blockchain Research

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments batteries, binghamton university, blockchain, clean power, community solar, consumers energy, Department of Energy (DOE), doe solar energy technologies office, duke energy, eagle creek renewable energy, electric power research institute, Energy Storage, florida state university, grid, grid storage, hybrid power plants, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), oak ridge national laboratory, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, policy & politics, reorg: resilience and stability oriented cellular grid formation and optimization for communities with solar pvs and mobile energy storages, research, resilient operation of networked community microgrids with high solar penetration, rooftop solar, sapphire: stability-augmented optimal control of hybrid pv plants with very high penetration of inverter-based resources, SCIENCE, secure — solar energy community resiliency, Smart Grid, Solar energy, solar power plants, solar–hydro hybrid power plants, state university of new york, subsidies, university of central florida, university of north carolina, university of north carolina at charlotte, virginia polytechnic institute and state university

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:43:52 +0000

This fourth round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns solar–hydro hybrid power plants, other solar hybrid power plants, microgrids, grid storage integration, and blockchain technology

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US Funding For Solar Hardware Manufacturing Innovation

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, bipv, brektria 500, brightsource energy, clean power, concentrating solar power, consumer technology, Department of Energy (DOE), doe solar energy technologies office, element 16 technologies, Energy Storage, fresnel csp, fresnel lens, grid, hyperlight, machine learning, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, policy & politics, pvpallet, re2, research, SCIENCE, silicon valley materials technology corp, sinton instruments, solar cells, Solar energy, solar facades, solar panels, solar power plants, solar thermal, solar windows, storedgeai, string inverter, subsidies, sunpower, terabase energy, toledo solar, yaskawa solectria solar

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:18:18 +0000

This third round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns innovations in manufacturing for solar hardware

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US Funding For Solar Systems Integration & AI Applications In Solar Energy

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments AI, arizona public service, arizona state university, Artificial Intelligence, batteries, camus energy, Case Western Reserve University, clean energy states alliance, clean power, clean transport, concentrating solar power, consumer technology, customer options landscape: opportunities for co-adoption and technology evolution of distributed energy resources (co-located), Deep learning, Department of Energy (DOE), dgen, doe solar energy technologies office, electric power research institute, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, machine learning, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), north carolina state university, northeastern university, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, pacific northwest national laboratory, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, SCIENCE, Smart Grid, Solar energy, solar power plants, solar thermal, stanford university, subsidies, university of delaware, university of michigan, university of wisconsin, university of wisconsin-madison, vrn3p: variational recurrent neural network based net-load prediction under high solar penetration, yale university

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:57:10 +0000

This second round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects we’re looking at concern Systems Integration and AI Applications in Solar Energy with Emphasis on Machine Learning. Below are DOE summaries of how it intends to help on these topics as well as awardee details from the

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US Government Puts $130 Million More Into Solar Tech

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments arizona state university, bifacial solar cells, bifacial solar modules, cdte solar cells, cdte solar modules, clean energy states alliance, clean power, clemson university, college park, concentrating solar power, consumer technology, customer options landscape: opportunities for co-adoption and technology evolution of distributed energy resources (co-located), Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, doe solar energy technologies office, electric power research institute, georgia institute of technology, grid, hydrogen, integrated thermal energy storage and brayton cycle equipment demonstration (integrated testbed), microgrids, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, perc solar cells, perc solar modules, perovskite solar cells, perovskite solar modules, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, solar cells, Solar energy, solar module durability, solar module reliability, solar panel durability, solar panel reliability, solar panels, solar power plants, solar prices, solar thermal, subsidies, thin film solar, tool for reliability assessment of critical electronics in pv (trace-pv), university of central florida, university of delaware, university of maryland, university of washington

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:34:46 +0000

Continuing a decades-long trend, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has put a few million dollars into further research and development of solar power technologies — $130 million, to be precise

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Oil & Gas Drilling Technology Could Make District Heating Feasible

November 16, 2020 admin ball state university, carbon emissions, carleton college, clean power, deep direct use heating system, Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, gas drilling technology, geothermal energy, geothermal heating, geovision, ground source heat pumps, ICELAND, indiana, international geothermal association, low interest loans, Minnesota, Munich, oil drilling, oil drilling technology, oregon institute of technology, Paris, Princeton University, reykjavik

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:18:52 +0000

About 12% of all US greenhouse emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, according to Vox. Much of the energy used to heat large buildings — factories, office buildings, universities, schools, and so forth — could come from geothermal sources

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Cracking the Code on Recycling Energy Storage Batteries

November 5, 2020 admin argonne national laboratory, batteries, battery recycling, battery recycling prize, bloomberg new energy finance (bnef), bnef, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, global battery alliance, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), New York, North Carolina, oak ridge national laboratory, policy & politics, recell center, recycling energy storage batteries, research, SCIENCE, World Economic Forum

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:28:21 +0000

This is one of four blogs in a series examining current challenges and opportunities for recycling of clean energy technologies. Please see the introductory post, as well as other entries on solar panels and wind turbines

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US DOE & DOT Work On Improving Public Transportation Projects Using Data & Technology

October 29, 2020 admin american public transportation, chattanooga, chattanooga regional transportation authority (carta), clean transport, co2 emissions, Department of Energy, Department of Energy (DOE), department of transportation, DOE, doe vehicle technologies office, federal transit administration, mass transit / public transit, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), policy & politics, policy research, research, tennessee, US, Utah, utah state university

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:00:04 +0000

Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced project selections for $130 million in advanced vehicle technologies research across the United States

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Women’s Clean Energy Wednesday: Spotlight on Rwanda

October 23, 2020 admin africa, clean energy education and empowerment, clean energy ministerial, clean power, Department of Energy, Department of Energy (DOE), green economy, grid, Off The Grid, policy & politics, power africa, rwanda, Solar energy, stem rising, USAID, wind energy, women's clean energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:56:29 +0000

On Wednesday, October 21, join C3E International and USAID’s Power Africa for Women’s Clean Energy Wednesday: International Spotlight on Rwanda

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NRDC Sues US Department Of Energy Over Efficiency Standards Process Changes

October 20, 2020 admin appliances, consumer technology, Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, earthjustice, energy efficiency, environment america, led, lighting, nrdc, policy & politics, policy research, public interest research group, research, saving energy, Sierra Club, US, waste reduction

Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:07:38 +0000

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. by Joe Vukovich NRDC sued the U.S. Department of Energy yesterday for once again altering its energy efficiency standards-setting process to make it more difficult to set rigorous energy-saving levels for America’s appliances and equipment. We believe this change will harm consumers — especially low-income households — and create [&hellip

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NREL & CharIN Test Out Megawatt Charging System In USA

October 16, 2020 admin batteries, bidirectional charging, clean transport, Department of Energy, Department of Energy (DOE), Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, high-power bidirectional charging, lithium-ion batteries, megacharging, megawatt charging system connectors, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, nrel electric vehicle research infrastructure, nrel energy systems integration facility, US

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:37:58 +0000

On Sept. 23–24, 2020, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) joined forces with the Charging Interface Initiative (CharIN) to host a high-power electric vehicle charging connector test event

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