Buried-Anode Technology Leads to Advanced Lithium Batteries

A technology developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has sparked a start-up company that has attracted funding from the Advanced Projects Research Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Planar Energy, Inc. has licensed NREL\u27s buried-anode technology and put it to work in solid-state lithium batteries. The company claims its large-format batteries can achieve triple the performance of today\u27s lithium-ion batteries at half the cost, and if so, they could provide a significant boost to the emerging market for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles

An Energy Professionals\u27 Networking Group that\u27s Creating a Buzz

Bleary-eyed but wide awake at 2:00 am, I reached for my phone for a little social media solace. Clicking into a popular networking site, I typed energy in the search field. To my surprise, the search returned a list of over 10,000 options. As professionals, entrepreneurs and affiliates to the energy industry, let me spare you an early morning quest. There is an industry-related group that has quietly built a network of members 20,000-strong with tentacles reaching throughout the U.S. and abroad

Wind Powering America Initiative: The Wind and Water Power Program (WWPP)

The U.S. Department of Energy\u27s Wind Powering America initiative engages in technology market acceptance, barrier reduction, and technology deployment support activities. This fact sheet outlines ways in which the Wind Powering America team works to reduce barriers to appropriate wind energy deployment, primarily by focusing on six program areas: workforce development, communications and outreach, stakeholder analysis and resource assessment, wind technology technical support, wind power for Native Americans, and federal sector support and collaboration

DOE Request for Information (RFI) DE-FOA-0000153 PV Manufacturing Initiative: Summary Report

Clean Cities hosts a collection of tools on the exploring concepts for a “PV Manufacturing Initiative” to facilitate the development of a strong photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing industry in the United States. As an integral part this effort, and to inform the creation of a new funding opportunity in this area, DOE sought feedback from the PV industry. This document summarizes the results of the PV Manufacturing Request for Information (RFI), DE-FOA-0000153. (See Attachment 1.) The RFI was posted on http://www.grants.gov on 4 September 2009 and the NREL Web site on 9 September 2009. Respondents were asked to submit RFI inputs to [email protected] by 30 September 2009. A total of 58 responses were received. The 58 responses consisted of 30 Industry, 11 University, 11 Consortia, 2 National Lab, and 5 noncompliant inputs.1 The responding organizations and their contact information are provided in Attachment 2. This document summarizes the inputs as a set of common themes from the responses. The specific answers, recommendations, and suggested approaches from each respondent were also captured and individually summarized, but are not included in this document because they are identified with specific respondents

Biodiesel handling and use guide: Fourth edition (revised)

This document is a guide for those who blend, store, distribute, and use biodiesel and biodiesel blends. It provides basic information on the proper and safe use of biodiesel and biodiesel blends in compression-ignition engines and boilers, and it is intended to help fleets, individual users, blenders, distributors, and those involved in related activities understand procedures for handling and using biodiesel fuels

New American home 2010: Las Vegas, Nevada, building technologies program

This brochure details the New American Home 2010, which demonstrates the use of innovative building materials, cutting-edge design, and the latest construction techniques

United parcel service evaluates hybrid electric delivery vans

This fact sheet describes how the National Renewable Energy Laboratory\u27s Fleet Test and Evaluation team evaluated the 12-month, in-service performance of six Class 4 hybrid electric delivery vans - fueled by regular diesel - and six comparable conventional diesel vans operated by the United Parcel Service

Wind for Schools: A Wind Powering America Project

Energy is largely taken for granted within our society, but that perception is changing as the economic and environmental impacts of our current energy structure are more widely understood. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Powering America program sponsors the Wind for Schools Project to raise awareness in rural America about the benefits of wind energy while simultaneously developing a wind energy knowledge base in the United States to educate future leaders of our communities, states, and nation about the importance of renewable energy. The three primary project goals of the Wind for Schools Project are to: • Engage rural school teachers and students in wind energy education • Equip college students in wind energy applications and education to provide interested and equipped engineers for the growing U.S. wind industry • Introduce wind energy to rural communities, initiating a discussion of wind energy’s benefits and challenges

Day 1. Monday, August 11, 2003: National Renewable Energy Lab

8 pages (includes illustrations). Contains references