Renewable Energy Research News
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Benefits of Heat Pumps Detailed in New NREL Report
Millions of U.S. households would benefit from heat pumps, but the cost of installing the technology needs to come down to make their use a more attractive proposition, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The findings, detailed in the journal Joule, quantify the costs and benefits of air-source heat pumps across the United ...
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ORNL Demonstrates Power of New Modeling Approach to Understand Faults in the Electric Grid
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading the way in understanding the effects of electrical faults in the modern U.S. power grid.Faults are abnormal conditions in an electrical circuit that interrupt the flow of power, with the potential to cause blackouts that affect thousands of customers. Faults can be caused by equipment failure, human error, weather ...
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OU joins search for geothermal energy’s holy grail
From an obscure research facility on a forgotten edge of the University of Oklahoma’s North Campus, a professor and his students have begun a journey that someday may lead to the doorstep of Earth’s molten core. They are targeting a geological stratum known as the “superhot rock zone,” where temperatures approach 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Finding it is not a problem, but ...
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DOE Analysis Highlights Opportunities to Expand Clean, Affordable Geothermal Power
The U.S. Department of Energy this week released a new analysis quantifying the potential of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) as a widespread renewable energy option in the United States. Prepared by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Enhanced Geothermal Shot Analysis for the Geothermal Technologies Office finds that the goal of significantly expanding EGS deployment by ...
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First Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator Participants Begin Technical Assessment
The Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator's (CECA's) first cohort of solution providers Blue Ridge Networks, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and Xage recently began technical assessment of their technologies that offer strong authentication solutions for distributed energy resources. The selected solution providers will take part in a six-month acceleration period, where solutions will be evaluated ...
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NREL Researchers Point Toward Energy Efficiency Instead of Long-Term Storage
Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation's buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). As more communities plan to eventually rely on 100% renewable energy, the researchers offer a strategy that could guide their ...
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Groundbreaking NREL Analysis Points to No-Regrets Pathways to Meet LA
Meeting Los Angeles' ambitious goal of reliable, 100% renewable electricity by 2045 or even 2035 is achievable with rapid deployment of wind, solar, storage, and other renewable energy technologies this decade, according to a years-long analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The combined effects of energy efficiency, electrification, and demand ...
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NREL Heats Up Thermal Energy Storage with New Solution Meant To Ease Grid Stress, Ultimately Improving Energy Efficiency
Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a simple way to better evaluate the potential of novel materials to store or release heat on demand in homes, offices, or other buildings in a way that more efficiently manages the building's energy use. Their work, featured in Nature Energy, proposes a new design method that could make the process of heating and ...
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SimpliPhi CEO Honored as Global Power & Energy Elite for 2021
SimpliPhi Power’s CEO and president, Catherine Von Burg, has been honored as an Elite Leader as part of the Global Power & Energy Elites for 2021, among only ten individuals selected for this prestigious recognition. The company’s battery-powered microgrid at a migrant camp along the US-Mexico border in Matamoros was also selected as an Elite Project for its humanitarian impact ...
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U.S. Department of Energy to Hold Sixth CyberForce Competition
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced its sixth CyberForce Competition will take place on November 14, 2020. The event, which challenges college students to compete in a realistic cybersecurity defense exercise, will be held virtually this year. Argonne National Laboratory, which hosted the first-ever CyberForce Competition in 2016, manages the competition on behalf of DOE's Office ...
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REC Solar Saves California School District Millions Through Innovative Solar Energy Solutions
REC Solar, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Renewables, is working with the Pleasanton Unified School District in Pleasanton, Calif., to utilize solar plus energy storage solutions to significantly cut its emissions and save on energy costs. The project will include the installation of 1 megawatt (MW) of solar carports and a 660 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery energy storage system at Pleasanton ...
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NREL Data Book Reveals Trends in U.S. and Global Renewable Energy Growth
U.S. renewable electricity grew to 19.7 percent of total installed capacity and 17.7 percent of total electricity generation in 2017, compared to 18.3 percent of total installed capacity and 15.6 percent of total electricity generation in 2016 according to the 2017 Renewable Energy Data BookPDF, now in its 10th edition. Installed global renewable electricity capacity also continued to increase in ...
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NREL Details Great Potential for Floating PV Systems
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers estimate that installing floating solar photovoltaics on the more than 24,000 man-made U.S. reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of the nation’s annual electricity production. Their findings, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, reveal for the first time the potential for floating PV to produce ...
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Elementary School TAG Students Tour Ohmsett
Ohmsett, Leonardo, New Jersey - On May 16, 2017 a group of very bright third grade students from the Talented and Gifted Program at Menlo Park Elementary School in Edison, New Jersey visited Ohmsett to learn about oil spills. As part of their Engineering curriculum, the students are studying "A Slick Solution -Oil Spill Cleanup Engineering" where they are focusing on the understanding of ...
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SHARC Presenting at U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Vancouver – (May 2, 2018) – SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC”) is pleased to announce that its CEO Lynn Mueller was invited to present SHARC to a panel of investors and industry experts at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) hosts its annual Industry Growth Forum (IGF) in Denver, ...
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Perovskite Technology is Scalable, But Questions Remain about the Best Methods
As perovskite solar cells set efficiency records and the nascent technology becomes more stable, another major challenge remains: the issue of scalability, according to researchers at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). “It is scalable,” said Kai Zhu, a materials science researcher at NREL. “We just need to demonstrate efficiency and ...
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Cost-Reduction Roadmap Outlines Two Pathways to Meet DOE Residential Solar Cost Target for 2030
Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations could help the United States meet the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The NREL analysis ...
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2016 Data Book Shows Continued Growth of Renewable Electricity
The 2016 Renewable Energy Data Book shows that U.S. renewable electricity grew to 18.3 percent of total installed capacity and 15.6 percent of total electricity generation in 2016. Published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Renewable Energy Data Book presents U.S. and ...
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NREL Research Determines Integration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Should Play a Big Role in Future Electric System Planning
An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation's electric grid, according to research conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Matteo Muratori, a transportation and energy systems engineer at NREL and author of the new Nature Energy paper, "Impact of Uncoordinated Plug-in Electric ...
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NREL, University of Washington Scientists Elevate Quantum Dot Solar Cell World Record to 13.4 Percent
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) established a new world efficiency record for quantum dot solar cells, at 13.4 percent. Colloidal quantum dots are electronic materials and because of their astonishingly small size (typically 3-20 nanometers in dimension) they possess fascinating optical properties. Quantum dot solar cells emerged ...
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