Renewable Energy

    August 2013
    Wind turbines don't hurt home values, study says
    Wind-power turbines, which are increasingly dotting California's mountain and desert regions, don't appear to be having a negative effect on home values, according to a new report by the Lawrence-Berkeley
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    Date:
    08/30/2013
    Hydrogen fuel from sunlight

    Gary Moore is a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and principal investigator for the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis.

    In the search for clean, green sustainable energy sources to meet human needs for generations to come, perhaps no technology matches the ultimate potential of artificial photosynthesis. Bionic leaves
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    08/30/2013
    CTE begins Houston zero-emission delivery vehicle project
    The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) has partnered with the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) and Smith Electric Vehicles Corporation (Smith Electric) to reduce vehicle emissions
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    08/30/2013
    BlueBOLT announced that the company has introduced a network management feature to its cloud-based power and energy management platform. The new feature allows users to query (ping) any device with
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    Date:
    08/29/2013
    Over the last decade, growth in population, and advances in technology and communications have placed a continuously increasing demand on power generation, distribution, control and storage. To
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    08/29/2013
    Germany just broke its monthly solar power generation record once again. In July, the grey-skied country logged 5.1 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity from solar power, slightly better than the 5
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    08/28/2013
    ams, a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, announced next-generation sensor-enabled RFID tags offering breakthroughs for medical, automotive safety and other applications
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    08/28/2013
    The market is calling for products that are increasingly reliable and sustainable. This is a major challenge, and one that also affects the sectors for electronics and electronics manufacturing. Several
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    08/26/2013
    Smith Electric Vehicles, a leading global producer of all-electric medium-duty commercial vehicles, announced that it has signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture (‘the JV') with Taikang
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    Date:
    08/23/2013
    Chemical engineers' research may lead to inexpensive & flexible solar cells
    Work by a team of chemical engineers at Penn State and Rice University may lead to a new class of inexpensive organic solar cells. "Imagine if you could make solar cells as easily as you can print
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    08/23/2013
    With wind energy capacity growing at a rapid pace, the value of the operations and maintenance (O&M) market is expected to increase from $3 billion in 2008 to $19 billion by 2020, says research and
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    08/22/2013
    Germany to create largest PV facility to serve internal markets
    Building on their renewable energy and energy storage research, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is transferring its theoretical findings into practice and will build what is expected to
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    08/22/2013
    DC Voltage/Current Data Loggers offer expanded Measurement Range
    CAS DataLoggers announced that their Electrocorder Two-Channel DC Voltage and Current Dataloggers are now available in expanded measurement versions. In addition to our model monitoring DC current
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    Date:
    08/21/2013
    Novel battery design may support grid-stiffening for alternate energy sources
    Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to
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    Date:
    08/21/2013
    Phoenix Marketing International's Automotive Practice has released its most recent findings from its ongoing research regarding purchase consideration of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs). The Automotive
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    Date:
    08/19/2013
    Despite demonstrating a slowed growth rate, China will continue to be the largest wind power market in 2020, as it attempts to reduce its carbon footprint while increasing electricity production in
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    08/16/2013
    The PARSTAT MC multi-channel potentiostat/galvanostat serves electrochemistry research and testing
    Princeton Applied Research of AMETEK Advanced Measurement Technology (AMT) has introduced the PARSTAT MC multi-channel potentiostat/galvanostat for electrochemistry research and testing. The highly
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    08/14/2013
    The August ESF Roundup of select ESF Research news and industry events feature the EnerCom Oil & Gas Conference, happening in Denver, CO, next week. Last month brought a wide range of activity, from
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    08/09/2013
    California Public Utilities Commissioner Carla Peterman, who earlier issued a ruling proposing that the state's investor-owned utilities procure 1.3 gigawatts of energy storage by 2020, will deliver
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    08/08/2013
    Climate-KIC - Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership working to address the challenge of climate change - has awarded more than £125,000 to a project aimed at shifting electricity
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    Date:
    08/08/2013
    The Impact of Waste Reduction on the Portable Charger Market

    Ryan Sanderson, IHS

    Making portable electronic devices easier to use, but with greater functionality and a smaller footprint, are consumer-driven features which often lead to developments in the market. Those demands
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    Date:
    08/06/2013
    Supporters of "green" technologies, especially in the power space, often stress the financial payback of regenerative-energy systems, more efficient electronics, and intelligent power management.
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    Date:
    08/05/2013
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