The U.S. Dept of Energy announced this week that it will award $188 million—including $73 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding—to small businesses in 34 states to develop clean energy technologies with potential for commercialization. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR), the selections [...]
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a series of initiatives underway at the Department of Energy to more broadly implement cool roof technologies on DOE facilities and buildings across the federal government. Cool roofs use lighter-colored roofing surfaces or special coatings to reflect more of the sun’s heat, helping improve building efficiency [...]
Operated by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only test facility of this type in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental engineering data for the design, construction, and operation of unique components and systems in [...]
The City of Tallahassee Utilities Rebate + Incentives Are Greater Than What You Pay for the Water Heater Itself LOUISVILLE, Ky.–With a special $1,200 rebate for The City of Tallahassee Utilities customers valid through Sept. 30, 2010, and a Federal tax credit of up to $480 through Dec. 31, 2010, homeowners could end up saving [...]
The Oregon Department of Energy has issued 11 awards in a competitive process to study the feasibility of specific and new renewable energy, heat, and fuel projects in Oregon. Eleven projects in nine counties received funding ranging from $20,000 to $50,000, at a total commitment level of $351,000. The purpose of the CREFF program is [...]
WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp. (OTC BB: WWAT.OB), developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, and Solargenix Energy, LLC (SGX) headquartered in Sanford, North Carolina, have announced the signing of a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding that is expected to lead to the expansion and increased efficiency of the marketing and sales forces of both [...]
The cleantech startup company Sunnovations Inc. (McLean, Virginia), this month announced the commercial availability of its “breakthrough” solar hot water system for American homes. Solar hot water, a clean and free power source, is believed to be an incredibly underexploited technology in the United States, despite the fact that homeowners could save up to 75 [...]
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne received an award of up to $10.2 million from the Department of Energy to design and develop technologies aimed at significantly lowering electricity costs using a Concentrated Solar Power Tower with Thermal Storage (CSP Power Tower). Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. company. “This award is a key [...]
The Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and Ice Energy, a leading provider of advanced energy storage solutions, are working on biulding the U.S.’s first cost-effective, utility-scale, distributed energy storage project. The 53 Megawatt (MW) project, to be implemented by SCPPA member utilities throughout Southern California, will permanently reduce California’s peak electrical demand by shifting [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy announced this month the selections of projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. This funding will support improvements in CSP systems, components, and thermal energy storage to accelerate the market-readiness [...]
Alcoa has announced that it is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), with the goal of making Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy. NREL and Alcoa recently installed a new Alcoa-designed Concentrating Solar [...]
The Department of Energy has announced the winners of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for Solar Thermal resarch and development. Solar Thermal technology is receiving 59% or approximately $10.1 million dollars of the $17 million of project funding announced on October 8th. The solar thermal projects receiving funding are: Dual Purpose Advanced HTF [...]
October 08, 2009 At the opening of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Decathlon on the National Mall, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced up to $87 million will be made available to support the development of new solar energy technologies and the rapid deployment of available carbon-free solar energy systems. Of this funding, $50 [...]
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