PV Mapping Project announced by NREL
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has announced the Open PV Mapping Project. This project is a community driven database of Photovoltaic installations in the US from 1998 to 2009. The goal is to organize and distribute knowledge of the location, size, cost and date for all of the US from all the states and all the installers. This is a work in progress that gives a very good representation of how the solar industry is progressing and... [Read More...]
Turn your house into a Power Plant
New research at MIT has opened the door to a 24 hour energy solution using the sun and solar energy. Plants store their energy in the evening and their is an abundance of energy during the day to allow for overnight storage. The amount of energy falling on the Earth in one hour is equivalent to all of the energy needs of the planet for an entire year. New and efficient ways of splitting hydrogen and oxygen and storing the energy in a fuel cell in... [Read More...]
Wind changing direction, Governor calls for 2,000MW of Wind by 2020
This is a huge shot in the arm for wind power in Massachusetts, and a strong energy leadership role by Governor Deval Patrick. This will create jobs, stimulate the economy. Moving us toward energy independence and away from the dependence on fossil fuels. ### Massachusetts Governor Calls for 2,000 MW of Wind by 2020 by Carl Levesque, AWEA Massachusetts, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Providing further support to a package of previously... [Read More...]
