Secretary Chu Announces $620 Million for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

According to the Press Release, “At an event in Columbus, Ohio this afternoon, Secretary Chu announced that the Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will help build a smarter, more efficient, more resilient electrical grid.  These 32 demonstration projects, [...]

Clean Energy Dollars Find Home in San Francisco Bay Area

When it comes to research, the universities of the San Francisco Bay Area are some of the finest institutions devoted to that task. Due to this incredible amount of advancement in a geographically small area, many businesses have developed in fields of scientific advancement, thus giving graduates a place to apply their skills. The U.S. [...]

Green News: Electric Vehicles Gone Postal

With consumers largely avoiding electric cars due to their shortcomings (range, charging infrastructure) the United States Postal Service is already undertaking the electrification of their current Long Life Vehicle (LLV) model to contribute to the green movement. AM General and Smith Electric Vehicles (SEV) will be teaming up to complete this project in converting all [...]

U.S. Military Plans 500 MW Solar Plant in Mojave

According to the Press Release, “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired two companies to build a 500 megawatt power plant at Fort Irwin in California’s Mojave Desert, which would be by far the military’s largest solar facility.”  This project, set to be complete by 2022, would cost roughly $2 billion and dwarf the [...]

Germany wins Solar Decathlon

Green architecture has become a growing industry, changing the urban landscape in many different ways. Everything from roof-top gardens to buildings that utilize environmentally friendly building materials in construction and solar panels for electricity needs have become nearly common-place. The more adventurous of architects have taken pages out of the books of Wright and Gehry [...]