Remote & Rural Communities Boosted By Distributed Wind Energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:43:31 +0000

Four-Year, Multilab Project Evaluates How Communities Can Safely, Effectively, and Efficiently Benefit from Distributed Wind Energy No roads lead to St. Mary’s, Alaska. To get there, most people boat down the nearby Yukon River, which is almost as wide as the village itself. That same route is used to bring in supplies, like the diesel […]

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DOE Breaks Ground on Next-Generation Concentrating Solar Power Pilot

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:25:58 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has broken ground on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3), a novel concentrating solar power (CSP) facility at Sandia National Laboratory that will use sand-like ceramic particles instead of molten salt to produce and store high-temperature energy. When completed in 2024, the “multi-megawatt” solar thermal pilot project will utilize an existing […]

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