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Clean, green, renewable energy is one of the biggest drivers of the Smart Grid. Put simply, the world cannot meet its renewable energy goals without an intelligent, interconnected grid. This section will help you find the latest research and reports on key issues such as interconnection, integration, intermittency (and how to handle it), and growth projections.
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Texas has quite a lot more wind power than it can use, and a San Francisco-based transmission line developer wants to build a 400-mile transmission line to send some of it to states that aren't so fortunate. |
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Ocean Renewable Power Company says it has successfully completed a test of a proprietary tidal current energy generator and will use the test results to tweak a commercial version. |
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A cooperative approach among New England states in reaching renewable energy goals would allow the states to spread the risk of high-ticket projects and provide other benefits, including higher economies of scale, the CEO of the regional electric grid said this week. |
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A group of designers thinks the way to combat NIMBY attitudes about transmission towers is to make them look like giant people. And Crayola commemorates a solar plant behind its headquarters with a new shade of — what else could it be? — green to add some color to the occasion. |
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A joint effort by Ford, Xtreme Power and Detroit Edison to build a solar energy system will provide a window into industrial applications for renewable energy, Smart Grid technologies and energy storage. |
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It hasn't been cheap or easy, but Portugal has made incredible strides toward a green energy future: Almost 45% of the country's power will be from renewable energy sources this year, quite a jump from 17% five years ago. |
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A transparent polymer sticker applied to solar panels can increase energy output by 10%, according to the product's manufacturer. But there's a catch: How long will it last? |
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Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in Europe have resulted in dramatic growth in renewable energy over the past decade. In fact, an exhaustive new report from the National Research Energy Laboratory (NREL) says FITs accounted for the deployment of 55,000 MW of wind power and 15,000 MW of solar PV in the EU between 2000 and 2009. In comparison, the U.S. had 25,000 MW of wind power at the end of 2009 and 1,250 MW of solar PV. This 144-page NREL report is an impressive piece of work designed to help U.S. policymakers understand FIT design alternatives and best practices worldwide. |
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A new solar canopy charging station in Portland, Oregon, can charge your EV, your electric bike and most personal electronics. And a North Carolina company is introducing a new location for generating solar energy: carports. |
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Nevada and Sicily, Italy may not have much in common, but both will be firing up solar thermal plants incorporating molten salt to store the solar energy created. |
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Much has been made of the amounts of money invested worldwide in renewables and biofuels, but the truth of the matter is it's pocket change compared to what's being spent to support fossil fuels, according to new research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. |
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The EPA's Green Power Partnership will host a webinar Thursday, July 29, on a new national wind program designed to allow companies that use a large amount of power to buy renewable energy in a financially neutral way. |
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The market value of electricity generated from biomass is expected to reach $53 billion by 2020, well above the roughly $45 billion in 2010. That’s according to a new Pike Research report. |
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California solar industry associations have called for the implementation of feed-in tariffs to help speed growth in solar and other renewables. The consensus from the associations is that feed-in tariff policies for U.S. renewables are long overdue. |
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AT&T has agreed to offer Petra Solar's interactive solar electric systems which incorporate solar power generation and Smart Grid technology in one system. The offering will allow utilities to meet Renewable Portfolio Standards while investing in Smart Grid technologies. |
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Alternative energy company Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies has won a contract to engineer and implement production tooling for a solar photovoltaic roof module for the Fisker Karma, a high performance plug-in hybrid luxury sedan. |
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Wind energy projects have been stalled or derailed by a lack of transmission capacity, but a new report says it's not always necessary to build new transmission lines. Instead, existing technologies can increase capacity with little or no change to existing transmission systems. |
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Marine and hydrokinetic technologies (ocean waves and currents, tides and rivers) are getting more attention (and money) than ever before. But how likely is it that we'll see them pumping out power in the foreseeable future? |
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As an ever increasing number of people around the world become connected by mobile communications networks, the challenges to providing electricity to these expanding networks are becoming greater as well. In particular, developing countries are seeing unprecedented growth in wireless subscribers, however many of the base stations in these areas are in remote locales that have limited or no access to grid power. Renewable energy from solar panels and small wind turbines offers a viable alternative to diesel generators in these remote off-grid sites, and a new report from Pike Research forecasts that renewable energy will power 4.5% of the world’s mobile base stations by 2014, up from just 0.11% in 2010. In developing countries, the percentage will be even higher – the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts that 8% of base stations in those regions will utilize renewable power by 2014. |
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Conditional commitments for almost $2 billion in Recovery Act funded loan guarantees have been offered to two advanced solar technologies projects, one to produce thin film solar panels and the other to build and operate a concentrating solar power plant. |
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As big names like GE and John Deere announce new investments in wind farms, research from Frost & Sullivan suggests it’s the more reliable and predictable wave industry that’s going to see tremendous growth – as in market potential of $1 trillion worldwide. |
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The Energy Department will invest up to $24 million for three research groups to come up with ways to develop affordable and economically and environmentally sustainable production of biofuels from algae. Efforts to harness the potential power of algae have been hampered by technological challenges and high production costs. |
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The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy today announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will strengthen the working relationship between the two agencies on the future development of commercial renewable offshore energy projects on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). |
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A lawsuit has been filed in federal district court alleging that the country's first offshore wind farm would severely harm protected migratory birds and that whales also could be affected. The 130-turbine Cape Wind project proposed for Nantucket Sound won federal approval in late April after almost 10 years of wrangling. |
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The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and plastic solar panel manufacturer Solarmer Energy will cooperate on research and development to extend the lifetime of plastic solar cells. The hope is that eventually plastic cells can be made cheaply enough and in high enough volumes that solar electricity costs will match the costs of conventionally-produced electricity. |
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