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U.S. DOE Releases 1st-Ever Roadmap to Accelerate Connecting More Clean Energy Projects to the Nation’s Electric Grid

April 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, grid, grid storage, jennifer granholm, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), press releases, Smart Grid, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:27:55 +0000

Report Details Recommendations to Streamline Interconnection with Near- to Long-Term Solutions to Add Clean Energy Resources to the Transmission Grid and Boost Our Clean Energy Economy WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap outlining solutions to speed up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and … [continued]

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NAWI Awarded Funding To Continue To Accelerate Research & Development For A Secure Water Future

April 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments berkeley lab, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), us department of energy (doe), Water

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:06:33 +0000

A research consortium led by Berkeley Lab, along with three other national labs, will continue to lead a DOE desalination hub to drive innovation for sustainable water security The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), which is led by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has … [continued]

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In A Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes

February 15, 2024 admin berkeley lab, climate change, hurricanes, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, research

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:57:39 +0000

For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property … [continued]

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Impacts & Benefits of Hosting Large-Scale Solar — Stakeholder Perceptions

January 27, 2024 admin clean power, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, research, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:09:46 +0000

A new journal article draws insights from 54 interviews of residents, developers, and policy makers around seven large-scale solar projects … [continued]

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Solar On Businesses, Schools, & Other Non-Residential Buildings Affect Residential Adoption Trends

January 19, 2024 admin berkeley lab, buildings, clean power, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), Solar energy, solar energy technologies office (seto), us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:01:29 +0000

Previous research has shown that social influence can drive rooftop solar adoption. Research to date has primarily focused on influence … [continued]

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How Will Future Larger Turbines Impact Wind Project Electricity Output & Surrounding Community Sound Levels?

March 28, 2023 admin clean power, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, research, SCIENCE, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 14:00:27 +0000

New Berkeley Lab study finds a dramatic increase in estimated project output coupled with a decrease in surrounding sound levels for future turbines as compared to those installed in the past. Multiple technological, social, and market factors of wind power are evolving rapidly. Most notably, significant wind turbine scaling in height and size is occurring […]

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Comparing The Net Value of Geothermal, Wind, Solar, & Solar+Storage In The Western United States

March 19, 2023 admin clean power, Energy Storage, geothermal energy, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, Solar energy, US, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:25:37 +0000

We are pleased to announce the recent publication of a new Berkeley Lab analysis — “Mind the Gap: Comparing the Net Value of Geothermal, Wind, Solar, and Solar+Storage in the Western United States” — in the journal Renewable Energy. Studies show that a diverse portfolio of zero-carbon resources will be needed to decarbonize the U.S. […]

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How Much Land Would It Require To Get Most Of Our Electricity From Wind & Solar?

February 28, 2023 admin clean power, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:40:26 +0000

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. Fortunately, the answer is relatively little. A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48 — that’s an area […]

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How Business Locations Could Shape Rooftop Solar Adopter Demographics

February 10, 2023 admin clean power, green economy, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), rooftop solar, Solar energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:18:05 +0000

Previous research has shown that the locations of businesses such as grocery stores can result in inequitable access to goods and services. Could the locations of rooftop solar businesses similarly help explain, among other factors, why rooftop solar adopters earn higher incomes, on average, than non-adopters? In a new paper published in the journal Energy Research and […]

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Report Notes Continued Growth of Hybrid Power Plants

August 11, 2022 admin Battery, DOE, Energy Storage, hybrid power, hybrid power plants, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, news, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:29:23 +0000

Hybrid power plants continue to be deployed across the U.S., with almost 300 such facilities (all with 1 MW or more of generation capacity) operating at the end of last year. An August 2022 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, based on research funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and […]

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