‘Decision Trees’ Guide Vacant Land To Renewables
The EPA and NREL join forces to help communities and landowners evaluate vacant sites for renewable energy potential without the need for technical expertise. Read more →
Which Energy Options Generate The Most Greenhouse Gas?
NREL talks about the LCA Harmonization Project, which gives decision-makers and investors more exact estimates of greenhouse-gas emissions for renewable and conventional generation. Read more →
Solar Leases Attracting New Demographic
National Renewable Energy Laboratory takes a look at how solar leasing is helping homeowners in less affluent neighborhoods discover they be able to actually afford solar energy after all. Read more →
NREL Thinks Big At Wind Technology Center
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's is working with modern, megawatt-scale machines, studying ways to increase wind turbine efficiency at lower cost. Read more →
Black Silicon Solar Gets Natcore, NREL Focus
The U.S. Department of Energy wants to make black silicon using less heat, and NREL is collaborating with Natcore's revolutionary technology to do it. Read more →
New Approach Aims To Slash Cost Of Solar Cells
National Renewable Energy Laboratory talks about collaborate research it is involved in which one day could help make solar-powered electricity prices approach those of power from coal or natural gas. Read more →
Solar Window Breakthrough With Organic PV?
New Energy Technologies and the National Renewable Energy Lab see hope for building-integrated OPV applications after fabricating a bigger module. Read more →
by Pete Danko
Thermal Storage Gets More Solar On The Grid
National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks at how concentrating solar power, with its greater grid flexibility and ability to store energy, is becoming important as more clean energy comes online. Read more →
Another Day, Another Solar Cell Efficiency Record
UCLA researchers up the efficiency of a tandem polymer solar cell, which combines multiple cells with different absorption bands, to a record 10.6 percent. Read more →
by Pete Danko
New Wind Turbine Technology On The Horizon
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and wind power company Gamesa join forces to study and develop the "next generation of wind turbines" for the U.S. market. Read more →
EPA Says Ethanol Mandate Isn’t Driving Up Food PricesPosted in Renewable Energy
How To Boost Electric-Car Sales? Get ‘Butts In Seats’Posted in Transportation
Tri-Generation Facility Fuels Next Gen Of Vehicle TechPosted in Renewable Energy
US 1 Million EVs By 2015? No. Germany 1 Million By 2020? YesPosted in Transportation
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