The U.S. Department of Energy is funneling huge amounts of money to begin the transformation of our electric grid to a Smart Grid. Srini Krishnamurthy, a consultant for the DoE’s Office of Electric Delivery and Energy Reliability, discusses how much money is being invested, how it is being leveraged and what program areas are being selected for funding.
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Week in Review: February 21, 2010 to February 28, 2010
On Monday, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced conditional commitments for more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to BrightSource Energy, Inc. in support of the construction and start-up of three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants. The plants, to be located in the Mojave Desert in Southeastern California, will generate approximately 400 megawatts (MW) [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Week in Review: January 31, 2010 to February 7, 2010
President Barack Obama has announced that the U.S. Federal Government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 28 percent by 2020. As the single largest energy consumer in the U.S. economy, the Federal Government spent more than $24.5 billion on electricity and fuel in 2008 alone. “As the largest energy consumer in the United [...]
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Current and future green energy initiatives will have a significant impact on U.S. career opportunities going forward, and individuals planning to benefit from this transformation will need to be educated and trained in emerging energy technologies and new areas of energy expertise.
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On Tuesday, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) issued its 2009 Q4 report, indicating that the 9,922 megawatts of wind capacity added last year was the largest on record. This new capacity represents an expansion of the nation’s wind plant fleet by 39% and brings total wind power generating capacity in the U.S. to over [...]
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS). This study analyzes the economic, operational, and technical implications of shifting 20 percent or more of the Eastern Interconnection’s electrical load to wind energy by the year 2024, and shows that there are multiple [...]
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