Since 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy and the electric power industry have jointly invested over $7.9 billion in 99 cost-shared Smart Grid Grants projects.
We are just so darn thrifty
Americans used less energy in 2011 than in the previous year due mainly to a shift to higher-efficiency energy technologies in the transportation and residential sectors. Meanwhile, less coal was used but more natural gas was consumed according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Wind power saw the…
Americans continue to use more renewable energy sources
Anne M Stark, LLNL, stark8@llnl.gov Americans used more natural gas, solar panels, and wind turbines and less coal to generate electricity in 2012, according to the most recentU.S. energy charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Each year, the Laboratory releases energy flow charts that track the nation’s consumption of energy resources. Natural gas use is up…
California rich in offshore wind
The amount of wind blowing off the California coast has high potential. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory atmospheric scientists are working with a Norwegian company to leverage that wind as a valuable energy source. LLNL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sway, a renewable energy company that has developed floating towers for placing wind turbines…