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Accounting for Friction Increases Estimates of Ice Sheet’s Sensitiveness to Climate Change

One of the biggest unknowns in understanding the effects of climate change today is the melting rate of glacial ice in Antarctica. Scientists agree rising atmospheric and ocean temperatures could destabilize these ice sheets, but there is uncertainty about how fast they will lose ice.

12 Mar 2015

Researchers Combine Solar Energy Conversion and Biomass Conversion

In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi presents a new approach to combine solar energy conversion and biomass conversion, two important research areas for renewable energy.

12 Mar 2015

REC Solar, HICAPS Partner to Build Solar Electric Systems at VA Medical Centers in Salem and Las Vegas

REC Solar, a national provider of comprehensive commercial solar and energy solutions, and HICAPS, a SDVOSB (Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business) full service Construction Management firm, today announced they will build two solar electric systems at U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Medical Centers in Salem, Virginia and Las Vegas, Nevada. In total, these systems comprise nearly 7 MW of solar generation capacity across rooftops, carports and ground-mounted arrays.

12 Mar 2015

University of Virginia Forms Partnership with MAXNET Energy

The University of Virginia has formed a partnership with MAXNET Energy, a new initiative of Germany’s Max Planck Society to advance research on new, renewable, environmentally friendly and economical energy sources.

11 Mar 2015

NuGen Announces Acquisition of 4MW Operational Solar Project in Tolland, Massachusetts

NuGen Capital Management is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of an operational 4MW SREC 1 solar project in Tolland, Massachusetts. This marks the largest purchase of a fully operational project by NuGen. The electricity generated by the project is sold to two local Municipalities. This latest addition brings NuGenʼs Massachusetts SREC 1 solar portfolio to over 17MW.

11 Mar 2015

Global Warming May Ramp Up Methane Flow from Groundwater into Arctic Lakes

Global warming may ramp up the flow of methane from groundwater into Arctic lakes, allowing more of the potent greenhouse gas to bubble out into the atmosphere, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Santa Cruz.

11 Mar 2015

CalCom Solar Enters into 100MW Supply Agreement with NEXTracker

CalCom Solar, a leader in solar project design and construction for California Agribusinesses and Water Districts, has entered into a 100 MW supply agreement with NEXTracker to serve its agribusiness customers.

11 Mar 2015

Standard Solar Announces 3.6MW Solar Project for Town of Stafford, Connecticut

Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, construction, integration, financing and installation of solar electric systems, today announced it will design and install a 3.6 Megawatt (MW) solar system for the Town of Stafford, Conn.

11 Mar 2015

NASA Procures Gevo’s Renewable Alcohol-to-Jet Fuel

Gevo, Inc., announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has purchased Gevo's renewable Alcohol-to-Jet fuel (ATJ) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. Gevo's ATJ is manufactured at its demonstration biorefinery located in Silsbee, TX, using renewable isobutanol produced at its Luverne, MN, isobutanol plant. The biorefinery, where Gevo also produces bio-paraxylene and bio-isooctane, is operated in conjunction with South Hampton Resources.

11 Mar 2015

Principal Solar to Build 72.9MW AC Solar Facility in North Carolina

Principal Solar, Inc. (PSI; OTC Pink®: PSWW), a solar power company that is creating a utility-scale operation, announced today that it will build a 72.9 MW AC solar facility in North Carolina, its second major project announced in 2015.

10 Mar 2015

New Type of Protective Coating Enables Key Process in Solar-Driven Production of Fuels

Caltech scientists, inspired by a chemical process found in leaves, have developed an electrically conductive film that could help pave the way for devices capable of harnessing sunlight to split water into hydrogen fuel.

10 Mar 2015

Hanwha Q CELLS to Supply 75MW of Solar PV Modules to juwi solar

Hanwha Q CELLS Co. Ltd. ("Hanwha Q CELLS"), a top-10 global photovoltaic manufacturer of high-quality, cost-competitive solar modules, has signed a supply agreement with juwi solar to supply 75 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules.

10 Mar 2015

Climate Change is Starting to Speed up

An analysis of changes to the climate that occur over several decades suggests that these changes are happening faster than historical levels and are starting to speed up. The Earth is now entering a period of changing climate that will likely be faster than what's occurred naturally over the last thousand years, according to a new paper in Nature Climate Change, committing people to live through and adapt to a warming world.

10 Mar 2015

A-Frame-Like Contraption Produces Ceramic Water Filters for Making Unsafe Water Potable

A game-changer. That’s what Penn State art education professor B. Stephen Carpenter II calls the approximately 50-pound portable filter press designed by engineering students during the spring 2014 semester. The A-frame-like contraption, small enough to fit in a suitcase, produces ceramic water filters that, simply but significantly, make unsafe water potable.

10 Mar 2015

Proteomics May Help Manipulate Switchgrass for Increased Biofuel Production

If advanced biofuels are to replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuel on a gallon-for-gallon basis at competitive pricing, we’re going to need a new generation of fuel crops – plants designed specifically to serve as feedstocks for fuels. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have demonstrated the power of a new ally in this effort – proteomics!

10 Mar 2015