All Posts Tagged With: "NREL"

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NREL Builds on Partnerships and More

In digital press releases and recent conversations with Colorado Energy News, the DOE’s leading national laboratory for renewable energy takes on critics, emphasizes its leadership position to the energy economy and talks 2012.

27Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NREL Helps Retailers Checking ‘Nice’ on
Energy Savings List

Although the power is always “on” for use in our country’s buildings, the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL are working with the nation’s commercial building owners — from retailers to offices and warehouses — to discover innovative ways to reduce commercial building energy use.

2Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Resource Alert — The DOE’s Wind Resources Map for Colorado

An area of excellent-to-outstanding resource is located along the Wyoming border north of Fort Collins. The exposed ridge crests of the Front Range, the Continental Divide, and in western Colorado also possess good-to-outstanding wind resource.

6Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder Wind Power Gets Capital Infusion From Manufacturer of Rare Earth Oxides

“Linking such an innovative wind energy technology with U.S. sourced rare earth production creates many potentially powerful synergies,” said NREL’s Director, Dan Arvizu. “It promises to strengthen the ability of the U.S. to manufacture wind turbines domestically and compete globally.”

14Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Top Priority, U.N. Chief Tells NREL

NREL, through its numerous partnerships with the U.N., is playing a crucial role in making that happen and building a sustainable world, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a crowd of researchers assembled at NREL’s Research Support Facility.

26Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder and Partners Celebrate Successful Energy Efficiency Innovations

“In 2006, Boulder adopted the Climate Action Plan, which challenges the community to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam.

16Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Green Economic Development Partnership to Boost Colorado Startups

“CREED will boost growth in the energy sector by bringing together innovation, entrepreneurialism and job-creation,”
said TJ Deora, Director of the Governor’s Energy Office, speaking about the new collaborative effort between NREL
and the State of Colorado.

21Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CleanLaunch Opens Doors at Golden Facility

CEO Stephen Miller noted that there are already three new tenants in the incubator: Green Grid Partners, Fleet Energy, and PureSilicon, a Rocky Mountain Clean Tech Open finalist in 2010. These three companies join CleanLaunch’s nine other existing virtual clients, who have collectively raised over $10 million in investment capital over the last three years.

16Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Biden Promotes Science, Renewables During NREL Visit

In his remarks, the VP said developing new energy technologies is this generation’s “moon shot.” Boulder startup, e-Chromic, won the first“America’s Next Top Innovator” Challenge honor.

21May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NREL Helps French Manufacturer Alstom Get Serious About US Wind Power Market

This week it celebrated the successful installation of a three-megawatt Alstom wind turbine at the National Wind Technology Center. A joint team of NREL and Alstom engineers will perform a series of analyses and tests to evaluate the company’s unique drive train technology.

28Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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NREL’s 2011 Executive Energy Leadership Program

Applications are still being accepted for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 2011 Executive Energy Leadership Program (Energy Execs). The program educates public and private sector decision-makers through a non-technical approach about clean energy options.

11Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CSU, NREL Collaborate to Research Utility Business Models for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

“We’re looking at ways we can reform the electricity market, utilities’ rate structures and their finance operations to develop a business environment that provides structural incentives for energy conservation, renewable energy and smart electric grids.”

3Mar2011 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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Renewables Face New Challenges — Will They Be Ready for Prime Time Any Time Soon?

NREL Director Dan Arvizu, speaking Monday at the the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., warned that potential federal budget reductions, if enacted, could derail or delay by years crucial progress on clean energy technologies that would benefit the nation. His full remarks:

1Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Super-Efficient Cells Key to Low-Cost
Solar Power

Amonix and NREL combined talents to develop a solar power concentrator that generates electricity at prices competitive with natural gas. The technology delivers more “energy per acre” than anything yet available in the solar energy world — and utilities are taking notice.

21Feb2011 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Boulder Wind Power Raises $8 Million in Funding

The money will be used to continue development and commercialization of the company’s direct drive technology for utility scale wind energy. NREL veteran Sandy Buttefield co-founded Boulder Wind Power in 2009, along with Jim Smith and Matt Jore.

3Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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In the WIND …

The 51-megawatt Kit Carson windpower project near Burlington is now operating, according to Duke Energy. The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is buying the power produced by the farm under a 20-year agreement with a Duke subsidiary.

1Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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