Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases. [CNBC] Premier Rachel Notley says she’s holding her fire – for now – on Quebec’s plan to request an injunction related to TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline. [CBC News] Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz… Keep reading →
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Energy News Roundup: Chesapeake CEO Indicted, TransCanada Injunction Stalled & Moniz Pushing ARPA-E
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By Stephanie Holinka | Sandia National LaboratoriesA new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore 50-megawatt (MW) wind turbines to the United States and the world. Sandia’s research on the extreme-scale Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor is funded by the Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program. The challenge: design a low-cost offshore 50-MW turbine requiring a rotor… Keep reading →
Renewable Energy Update – January 2016
By William R. Devine, Barry Epstein, Emily L. Murray, Patrick A. Perry | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLPDepartment Of Energy Announces 12 New Projects To Accelerate Technologies That Improve The Efficiency And Reliability Of The U.S. Electric Grid
By U.S. Department of EnergyWASHINGTON— The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $33 million in funding for 12 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems (NODES) program. NODES project teams will develop technologies that coordinate load and generation on the electric grid to create a virtual energy storage system. The teams will… Keep reading →
Secretary Moniz Awards $125 Million For 41 Transformational Energy Technology Projects Ahead Of COP21 In Paris
By U.S. Department of EnergyWASHINGTON – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced $125 million across 41 cutting-edge energy technologies awarded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). These new projects are funded under ARPA-E’s OPEN 2015 program and come in advance of the COP21 U.N. Climate Negotiations in Paris next week. The announcement was… Keep reading →
ARPA-E Announces $30 Million In Funding For Window Efficiency Technologies
By U.S. Department of EnergyThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on improving the energy efficiency of commercial and residential buildings. ARPA-E’s Single-pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Designs (SHIELD) program seeks to reduce heat-loss for improved building efficiency by developing innovative materials that… Keep reading →
President Obama Announces More Than A Billion Dollars In Energy Department Initiatives To Advance Innovative Clean Energy Technologies
By U.S. Department of EnergyLAS VEGAS –President Obama today announced more than one billion dollars in Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives to drive innovation and accelerate the clean energy economy. As part of the President’s Clean Power Plan, DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is making up to one billion dollars in loan guarantees available to support commercial-scale distributed energy… Keep reading →
Department Of Energy Announces 18 New Projects To Accelerate Technologies For Efficient Residential Combined Heat And Power Generation And Bioenergy Crop Development
By U.S. Department of EnergyThe Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) and Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA). GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential… Keep reading →
The Next Generation Of Battery Tech At ARPA-E
By GreenTech MediaFlow batteries for forklifts, new proton exchange membranes and sodium-ion cathode structures, and other potential breakthroughs. The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program was created to give “blue-sky” research projects the money they need to prove whether or not they’re ready for commercialization. That includes a host of projects seeking to make batteries cheaper, smaller… Keep reading →
In comments at the ARPA-E Summit on Wednesday, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said the following with regard to climate change: “The announcement in October in Beijing [on carbon emissions] six months ago has changed the discussion in many ways and in many places. We see it in lots of other discussions we are… Keep reading →