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Large Wind Farms in Certain Areas in the United States Appear to Affect Local Land Surface Temperatures
Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. How People Arrived Here: wind farms in united states
Energy Department Announces $9 Million to Help Utilities And Grid Operators Make Better Solar Power Forecasts
The Energy Department on announced this month that $9 million is available through 2012 to help utilities and grid operators better forecast when, where, and how much solar power will be produced at U.S. solar energy plants. How People Arrived Here:...
Energy Department Announces Up to $5 Million Available This Year to Develop Plug And Play Photovoltaic Systems
The Energy Department has announced that up to $5 million is available this year to develop "plug-and-play" photovoltaic (PV) systems.
UK Government Seismic Fracking Report Certain to Sharpen Debate
The process of hydraulic fracturing is a mining technique which uses injected fluid to propagate fractures in a rock layer to release hydrocarbon deposits that would otherwise be un-commercial. Developed in the U.S. and first used in 1947 for stimulating...
Gasoline is Expensive – Deal with It
The White House announced it was getting into the commodities game in an effort to protect consumers from some of the geopolitical factors spilling over into the retail gasoline market. OPEC and the IEA both said in their monthly reports that market perceptions...
Waste to Energy Technology Moves From the Lab to the Marketplace
Technology invented by a University of California, Davis, researcher that converts solid waste into renewable energy has debuted as the first commercially available, high-solid anaerobic digestion system in the United States.
Untapped U.S. Dams Could Generate Enough Electricity to Power More Than 4 Million Homes
In a study of the energy-producing potential of untapped U.S. dams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers found that 54,000 dams not currently used to generate power have the capacity to generate more than 12 gigawatts, enough to power more than 4...
Power Minister Reassures International Community About Power Sector Reforms in India
Minister of Power Shri Sushilkumar Shinde has reassured the international community about the conducive policy environment and an enabling regulatory framework that exist in India, to secure a sustainable energy future.
