Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), and Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-scale Solar Association (LSA), released the following statement today in response to the Department of the Interior’s record of decision on the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands: “We thank … Continue reading SEIA Statement on Dept. of Interior’s Solar Power PEIS Decision
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University Teams Lead Innovative Concentrated Solar Power Projects
The projects focus on increasing the efficiency of concentrated solar power (CSP) systems — which use large, expansive mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receivers. In turn, these receivers collect the sunlight and convert it into heat that can be used to produce electricity. Research teams at the University of California, Los Angeles and … Continue reading University Teams Lead Innovative Concentrated Solar Power Projects
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DoE Announces New Investments to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Cost-Competitive Solar Energy
These investments will enable collaborative research teams from industry, universities, and national laboratories to work together at the Department’s Scientific User Facilities, a national network of unique facilities that provide over 10,000 scientists and engineers each year with open access to some of the best instruments and tools in the world, including x-ray sources, accelerators, … Continue reading DoE Announces New Investments to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Cost-Competitive Solar Energy
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DoE announces $10 million for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto receivers that collect solar energy and convert it to heat that can be used to produce electricity. As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive solar energy to be cost-competitive with other energy sources by 2020, Secretary Steven Chu announced new … Continue reading DoE announces $10 million for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power
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SwRI Receives DOE Award for Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been awarded a $712,500 contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate the behavior of lithium-ion batteries during charge and discharge. The contract award is one of 19 projects that will receive $43 million in funding from the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop breakthrough energy storage … Continue reading SwRI Receives DOE Award for Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wind Power
EVWIND Our countdown of the top ten things you didn’t know about wind energy: 10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. Early forms of windmills used wind to crush grain or pump water. Now, modern wind turbines use the wind to create electricity. Learn how here. 9. A wind turbine has … Continue reading Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wind Power
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A Banner Year for the U.S. Wind Energy
EVWIND As President Obama has made clear, we need an all-of-the-above approach to American energy and the U.S. wind power industry is a critical part of this strategy. In fact, wind energy contributed 32 percent of all new U.S. electric capacity additions last year, representing $14 billion in new investment. The Energy Department and Lawrence … Continue reading A Banner Year for the U.S. Wind Energy
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New study finds the US wind energy market riding a wave that is likely to crest in 2012
EVWIND Facing looming policy uncertainty beyond 2012, the U.S. remained one of the fastest-growing wind power markets in the world in 2011—second only to China—according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Roughly 6.8 gigawatts (GW) of new wind power capacity … Continue reading New study finds the US wind energy market riding a wave that is likely to crest in 2012
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$3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries
Lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Aug. 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. This is a particularly challenging project because the electrochemical … Continue reading $3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries
Continue readingWind energy: PTC has generated ‘innovation, jobs’
The federal wind power Production Tax Credit (PTC) has been “effective … in producing American innovation [and] creating new American jobs” and should be extended.
Continue readingBrightSource Energy Founder Arnold Goldman Awarded Lifelong Contribution Award
BrightSource has recently begun construction on the 392 MW Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power System in Southern California?s Mojave Desert, the world?s largest solar thermal power plant.
Continue readingAeroTech Turbines Signs Wind Energy Contract in Tianjin
AeroTech Turbines Inc. has agreed a $135 million wind power deal to supply its VAWT 2 wind turbines at selected wind farm sites in the industrial city of Tianjin, China.
Continue readingChina – Solar Energy Association
China will vigorously develop wind energy, solar power, geothermal energy, biomass and other new energy and renewable energy.
Continue readingWhat About Wind Energy and Electric Vehicles? By Denise Bode, AWEA CEO
More wind power and electric cars will bolster our national security, improve electric reliability, create new manufacturing jobs, save consumers money, and revitalize rural communities.
Continue readingNissan and Mitsubishi Motors to Expand Scope of Cooperation by Carlos Ghosn
The two companies that have done most to the development of electric vehicles and lithium batteries, shake their cooperation. Great news for electric car development.
Continue readingWorld’s largest wind farm: Thanet officially open
Around 250 distinguished guests, invited by Vattenfall Wind Power, yesterday marked the official opening of the 300MW Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Kent with a boat trip and a ministerial visit.
Continue readingElement Power Secures Financing for Spanish Photovoltaic Solar Project
Element Power announced today that it has successfully secured a ?18.5m debt facility for its 3.51 MW PV solar project in Alicante, Spain.
Continue readingReciclaje de las baterías de litio de los vehículos eléctricos
La era del vehículo eléctrico apenas se inicia, pero para evitar errores, ademas de generar la electricidad con eólica y otras energías renovables hay que pensar en reciclar las baterías de litio.
Continue readingSaft ha sido seleccionado por el DOE para construir la fábrica de baterías de Li-ión del futuro
El Grupo Saft recibirá una dotación de 95 millones y medio de dólares, concedida por el departamento de energía estadounidense, tras la finalización de las negociaciones en curso.
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