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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $43 Million to Develop Carbon Capture and Storage Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon capture and sto…

PowerGrid Technology

How the DOE Plans to Modernize the Grid in the Near Term

Twenty-three projects chosen by the Department of Energy (DOE) in response to its 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call provide a broad look at the critical issues t…

New Exploration Method to Localise Potential Drilling Sites for Geothermal Energy

Researchers by the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam introduce a new method for exploration and the localization of interesting potential …

Large U.S. EGS Collaboration Project Researching Hydraulic Shearing for Geothermal

A large collaboration project on Enhanced/ Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) in the U.S. is researching how hydro-shearing could help to extract geothermal en…

Geothermal ORC Units to be Set up in Demonstration Projects

French company ENOGIA ORC will be setting up three small-scale ORC units as part of a European research project.

EPFL-Developed Geothermal Panels Reach International Finals

EPFL researchers have developed a geothermal system for recovering the heat captured in basements, subway tunnels and underground parking garages.

Bangladeshi Government Will Renegotiate Solar Tariffs for Projects Which Miss Deadlines

Officials in Dhaka frustrated by the lack of progress on several PV projects have decided to punish tardy developers by setting new power prices which reflect t…

Coal Power

Trump Energy Pick to Face Questions on Coal, Nuclear Power

President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette, will face questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on issues …

STA Unveils Policy Advice for Next Government

The Solar Trade Association (STA) is calling on the next government to “hit the ground running” as it stresses the need for the “urgent delivery” of three k…

Microgrid

Bushfires Should Make us Think About Energy Resilience and Microgrids

The largest known cause of Australian bushfires is accidents caused by humans. Second is — unfortunately, inexplicably — arson. Lightning strikes come a dista…

Regional Workshop in Costa Rica Highlights the Important Role of Geothermal

A Regional Workshop on Geothermal Energy of two days of sessions to exchange experiences on the use of this resource in fields such as reservoir management, te…

Global Potential for Tidal Power is Up to 1000 GW

Global potential for tidal power is huge, and the World Energy Council has estimated that up to 1,000GW of marine energy could be installed by mid-century – eq…

Microgrid

Asia-Pacific Continues to be The Largest Overall Market for Microgrids

This is according to a newly released report from Navigant Research, which analyzes regional microgrid capacity, implementation spending, and business model typ…

Microgrid

Sunverge Distributed Energy Resource Control and Aggregation Platform

Sunverge distributed energy resource control and aggregation platform supports LG’s home energy storage solution.

Energy storage technology

NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage Technology

ARPA-E has challenged researchers to innovate a storage technology that can be deployed in almost any location and charge and discharge electricity, at a low fi…