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Exclusive Interview: Mayor of America’s 10th Largest City on Benefits & Challenges of Electrification

January 23, 2021 admin buildings, clean power, clean transport, climate change, consumer technology, electric buses, Electric vehicles, electrify everything, energy efficiency, ev charging, ev charging stations, green economy, grid, INTERVIEWS, investment, mass transit / public transit, microgrids, policy & politics, policy research, proterra, research, sam liccardo, San Jose, san jose clean energy, tesla

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 04:22:16 +0000

I’ve been following San Jose’s Mayor, Sam Liccardo, for some time. In 2019, I heard from environmentalists in California about how he was instrumental in getting all-electric building legislation through the city council of the nation’s 10th largest city. I’ve also been tracking San Jose’s nation-leading efforts in clean electricity and electric vehicles

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US Air Force Decarbonizes On Wings Of Energy Efficiency

January 18, 2021 admin clean power, decarbonization, Electricity, Energy, energy efficiency, grid, Japan, microgrids, redstone arsenal, renewable energy, schneider electric, Solar energy, sunpower, u.s. air force, United States, US, Yokota Air Base

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:25:32 +0000

A major new energy efficiency project in Japan gives the US Air Force a jump on President-elect Joe Biden’s climate action plan

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US Defense Dept. Doubles Down On Renewable Energy, DERS

January 17, 2021 admin arpa-e, clean power, Department of Defense, DOE, duke energy, Electricity, Energy, Energy Storage, grid, microgrids, National Guard, renewable energy, Solar energy, switched source, United States, US

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:16:30 +0000

Like a crouching tiger, the hidden dragon of the US renewable energy industry has spent four years waiting for an ally in the Oval Office.

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Solar Prize Marks Milestone With Round 3 Winner & Round 4 Semifinalist Announcements

January 11, 2021 admin american-made solar prize round 3, clean power, climate change, consumer technology, Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Storage, evergrid, flywheel energy storage, green economy, grid, grid storage, maxout renewables, microgrids, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, policy & politics, rooftop solar, Solar energy, subsidies, wattch inc.

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 21:16:37 +0000

The Sun Has Set on Another Round of the American-Made Solar Prize, Awarding Two New Solar Startups for Their Innovations

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2020’s Top Wind Energy R&D Achievements

January 7, 2021 admin aqua ventus i, avangrid renewables, bureau of ocean energy management (boem), central maine power company, clean power, diamond offshore wind, distributed wind, ge, green economy, green jobs, grid, idaho national laboratory, investment, lidar, maine, maine aqua ventus i, MARYLAND, Massachusetts, microgrids, miracl, mitsubishi corporation, montana state university, national offshore wind r&d consortium, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), new england aqua ventus, new york state energy research and development authority (nyserda), nrel, oak ridge national laboratory, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, onshore wind farms, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), policy & politics, policy research, research, rwe renewables, sandia national laboratories, SCIENCE, siemens gamesa renewable energy, Smart Grid, the california independent system operator, transmission, Virginia, weg energy corporation, wind energy, wind grid integration, wind turbines

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:31:05 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) provides global leadership in fundamental wind energy science research, development, and validation activities that enable low-cost wind energy. The office pursues opportunities across all U.S. wind sectors — land-based utility-scale wind, offshore wind, distributed wind — as well as addressing market barriers and system integration

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US Energy Department Puts $45 Million Into Solar Hardware & Systems Integration

December 20, 2020 admin clean power, Department of Energy (DOE), DOE, green economy, green jobs, grid, market research, microgrids, policy & politics, research, research roadmap on grid-forming inverters, SCIENCE, Solar energy, solar energy technologies office (seto), solar panels, u.s. department of energy (doe), university of maine, US, us department of energy (doe), us solar manufacturing

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:19:05 +0000

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $45 million for research to advance solar hardware and systems integration, including the creation of a consortium dedicated to developing control technologies for a modernized electric grid

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“Switch On” — New Documentary On Energy Poverty With Scott Tinker

December 6, 2020 admin bureau of economic geology, chibwe, clean power, community solar, green economy, grid, microgrids, Off The Grid, solar electric light fund self, switch energy alliance

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:05:33 +0000

This feature-length film illustrates the profound challenges that energy poverty poses for nearly one billion people on planet Earth. It’s a follow up to the earlier released documentary “Switch,” and this time around I must admit that I got quite emotional watching it

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

November 26, 2020 admin 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 Government Puts $130 Million More Into Solar Tech

November 26, 2020 admin 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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