DOE walks the clean coal talk The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Treasury Department have awarded $1 billion in tax credits to nine companies for seven projects involving advanced…
Solar
Solar power technologies and projects: photovoltaic, concentrating solar, solar tower
This generation roundup provides snapshots of activity—current, planned, and proposed—in the four distinct U.S. electric power generation market niches. Use the capacity and investment levels provided to gauge the relative…
Consult the Guinness Book of World Records if you want to know which monster truck has made the highest jump ("Bigfoot 14"—24 feet) or the length of the longest freight…
The length of term allowed for power sales contracts is a critical determinant of the ability of states to meet their increasingly ambitious renewable power targets. Many utilities advocate limiting…
Germany has embraced renewable energy in general—and solar power in particular—like no other country in the world. The key driver of "green" generation in Germany has been the Renewable Energy…
Solar energy projects over the past few years have been predominantly based on photovoltaic (PV) cells. But given enough land and flat plate collectors, just about any size plant could…
In an effort to tap the significant solar energy resources of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado, the U.S. DOE will support efforts to install a total…
All interconnected transmission and distribution (T&D) grids have one thing in common: Their operators must continually dispatch generators to keep the network's supply and demand in balance at all times…
The United States Navy's interest in electric propulsion dates back to the launching of the 19,360-ton USS Jupiter (Figure 1) in August 1912. The Jupiter had a prototype electric propulsion…
There are many different types of fuel cells, and each has characteristics that make it more suitable than others for certain applications. For example, because molten carbonate fuel cells operate…