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US Nuclear Site Cleanup Underfunded By Up To $70 Billion

December 3, 2020 admin 0 Comments clean power, Clean Up, climate change, Coal, corruption, decommissioning, Fossil Fuels, Graft, green economy, grid, hinkley, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil, policy & politics, Solar energy, uk, United States, Waste, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:03:17 +0000

Wind and solar decommissioning costs are trivial. That’s yet another reason why nuclear is dead, but pretending it’s not

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Heat Pumps Are Amazing On Modern Grids, Not So Much In Coal Country

December 2, 2020 admin 0 Comments air quality, Alberta, British Columbia, buildings, Canada, clean power, climate change, Coal, doug ford, energy efficiency, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, HEALTH, heat pumps, investment, jason kenney, natural gas, Ontario, policy & politics, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 02:45:40 +0000

Electrifying everything at the same time as all electrical generation shifts to renewables are two of the key points in my Short List Of Climate Actions That Will Work. Heat pumps are only part of the answer, but at about 1% of Canada’s total GHG emissions reduction target, they are a surprisingly big one. Too bad about Alberta though

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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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Tool For Estimating Charging Loads From Plug-In Electric Vehicles

November 26, 2020 admin 0 Comments alternative fuels data center, california energy commission, clean transport, electric vehicle infrastructure projection (evi-pro) lite, Electric vehicles, ev charging, evi-pro lite, fact of the week, grid, humboldt state university, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), research, schatz energy research center, SCIENCE, US, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:36:05 +0000

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has recently upgraded its Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Projection (EVI-Pro) Lite tool to inform industry stakeholders about the electricity needed to charge plug-in vehicles

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One Change To The Worst Buildings Would Have Big Climate Benefits & Cut Costs

November 22, 2020 admin 0 Comments america, buildings, Canada, cfc, clean power, climate change, energy efficiency, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, heat pump, hfc, investment, kigali amendment, Manufacturing, montreal protocol, natural gas, policy & politics, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:27:28 +0000

Heat pumps in the worst buildings and nothing else would eliminate about 1.9 megatonnes of CO2e per year in Canada

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Improving The Efficiency Of Your Home, Part 1: Insulation & Air Sealing

November 20, 2020 admin 0 Comments air conditioning, air sealing, attic, blower door test, buildings, ceiling, clean power, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, co2 emissions, Conservation, energy audit, energy efficiency, erv, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, HEALTH, Heat, hrv, insulation, negawatts, reader participation, Solar energy, Walls, windows

Credit to Author: Barry A.F.| Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:15:05 +0000

Energy efficiency can help slow the rate of climate change. Learn about making your home more efficient so you can reduce carbon production and also save money

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The Inevitability Of Renewable Energy: Convincing Skeptics

November 20, 2020 admin 0 Comments attorney general of minnesota keith ellison, clean power, epa's top 100 partners, Fossil Fuels, grid, karen kirk, opensecrets

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:27:56 +0000

What persuasive strategies do you use to help others to understand and embrace scientific data, especially about renewable energy

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