Republican New Deal Cuts Cleantech to the Bone
Unemployed men vying for jobs at the American Legion Employment Bureau in Los Angeles during the Great Depression. Image credit: Britannica EncyclopediaIt comes as no surprise that the newly elected...
View ArticleXcel Energy Cuts Solar Incentives, House Rebuts with HB 1228
On February 17, 2011 Xcel Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEL), Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, announced that it was suspending the solar energy incentive application process and cutting the associated...
View ArticleFind EV Charging Stations on Google Maps
While electric vehicles (EV) are becoming more and more mainstream, finding a place to charge them can be quite challenging. But now, locating charging stations may be as simple as a click of the...
View ArticleElectric Vehicles: Hitting the (Frozen) Ground Running
Image courtesy Kent Colby, Raytheon Polar ServicesIn a test designed to prove that electric vehicles (EVs) are not only flexible but durable, even in intense cold, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)...
View ArticleRecovery Act Success? Over 1,800 Electric Vehicle Chargers Installed to Date...
Secretary Steven Chu noted that over 1,800 Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations have been installed under the Recovery Act to date -- a statistic designed to address growing concerns over rising...
View ArticleTurning Plants into Powerhouses
Image courtesy E! Science NewsA group of 18 scientists attending a workshop for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, recently reported on parallels...
View ArticleNREL Wins Three Solar Research Awards
Silicon inkThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, one of more than a dozen national laboratories vested in renewable energy research under the auspices of the U.S.read more
View ArticleUnited Nations Turns to Colorado for Green Energy Solutions
The eyes of world leaders may be on oil-rich Libya, but the United Nations is also focused on another of its top priorities: the issue of the fact that 20% of world's citizens are living without power....
View ArticleNREL Tests Electric Vehicles to Optimize Performance With Power Grids
Chris YarzabResearchers from the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released a report that could help optimize the way electric vehicles (EVs) and...
View ArticleNREL Finds Current Renewable Technologies Could Meet 80% of America's...
Investigating the extent to which renewable energy can meet electricity demands in the United States over the next several decades, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has come to some...
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