The U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) held its annual Innovation and Technology Transfer Award ceremony on Tuesday, recognizing researchers and staff for 169 new innovations last year, a 33 percent increase from 2014 figures.
The ceremony recognized NREL rese... Read More »
Sandia National Laboratories announced on Tuesday that it has won a three-year renewal from the Energy Department to continue its management of the U.S. regional test centers (RTCs) – U.S.-based facilities that test the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies.
RTCs test PV technolo... Read More »
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of a new initiative on Monday that will offer $25 million in funding to help software developers, utilities and solar companies accelerate the installation and integration of solar energy solutions.
The program, titled Enabling Extreme Real-Tim... Read More »
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) completed new maps of the geological setting in the Utica Shale play on Monday, including the geological structure and thickness of the area, as well as the location of production wells.
The Utica play includes the Utica formation and the Point Pl... Read More »
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced on Thursday that the first quarter of 2016 was one of the most successful for wind power installations since 2012, with 520 megawatts (MW) of new electric capacity added and more to come.
According to the AWEA’s U.S. Wind Industry First Qua... Read More »
The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new solar facility at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Georgia, in the company of community leaders and members.
“This project will provide security and resiliency for the power grid here at the... Read More »
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) announced on Wednesday that it would join public and private partners for the development of an industrial-scale laboratory that will attempt to develop more eco-friendly coal-firing methodologies.
“The Integrated Test Center is a shin... Read More »
The Black Hills Corporation, doing business as Black Hills Energy – Colorado Electric in Colorado, recently announced that it will offer a 500kW Community Solar Garden standard offering to solar developers this spring.
The program is the second of its kind offered in the Black Hills this year ... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) spoke on Tuesday at a hearing on oil and natural gas development, encouraging the government to incentivize domestic energy production while gas prices are low so that the U.S. can remain an energy leader.
“Oil and gas prices are low today, but they won’t be l... Read More »
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the results of a study on Monday that found single-walled carbon nanotube semiconductors potentially increase efficiency of photovoltaic solar systems by requiring less energy to convert sunlight to electricity.
The NREL study was built u... Read More »