Recognizing the importance of addressing the climate change crisis and reducing dependence upon foreign oil and gas, the US Department of Energy (USDOE) has launched an aggressive program aiming to meet 20% of America’s energy needs via wind by 2030. In conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the American Wind Energy […]
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Wind to meet 20% US energy needs by 2030
August 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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Microgrids or neighborhood energy
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Years ago I read The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible, by James Burke, about the origins and evolution of innovation and invention. Burke chronicles the unlikely connections that led from a wet clothesline in France to the permanent wave, which in turn spurred concentration on the borax mines of […]
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Energy deregulation forces wide scale distributed energy
March 30th, 2008 · No Comments
In 1992 electricity began to be viewed less as an essential service and more as a commodity when deregulation was enacted with the passage of the Energy Policy Act. Previously, public and investor owned utilities controlled power generation, transmission and distribution within a set region. The Energy Policy Act, however, allowed for the […]
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Centralized battery storage for wind power
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Storage is always the problem with renewable energy, what do you do with the excess power produced at times? How do you use it later? In Europe they are able to use the grid to feed excess power throughout several countries and now they are working on a huge centralized battery backup.
The battery […]
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Community Wind Energy 2008
March 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Windustry in cooperation with the NY State Energy Research and Development Authority are having a seminar in April to enhance the prospects of developing community owned wind projects. Items on the agenda include
* Day 1: Open dialogue on local, state and national public policies for community wind energy and options […]
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