When you think of offshore wind, what comes to mind? Cape Cod, Massachusetts? Great Britain? How about a different “Great”? The Great Lakes to be exact. Governors of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at jump starting offshore wind development in the Great Lakes. The Department [...]
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Offshore Wind Project on the Great Lakes
April 17th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy 
Tags: Army, Department of Energy, EPA, Minnesota, NREL, Wind Power 
No Comments »Department of Energy to Fund Wireless EV Charging
April 14th, 2012 Eric Wilson Nikola Tesla, a major proponent of alternating currents (as in AC of AC/DC; no not the band), envisioned wireless transmission of electricity more than a century ago. Its time may finally be coming as electric vehicles (EVs) start to proliferate. The Department of Energy recently announced $4 million for the development of wireless charging for [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation Tags: Department of Energy, Electric Vehicles, Tesla No Comments »Ball State Completes Largest Geothermal Installation
April 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few years back we wrote an article about Ball State University’s plan to replace their coal-fired boilers with a geothermal system. As it turns out, the time has come. According to the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Office of the Department of Energy, Ball State has completed the nation’s largest ground-source geothermal system [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Coal, Department of Energy, Geothermal, Green Jobs, Jobs, Stimulus Bill No Comments »President Obama Announces EV-EVerywhere Challenge
March 28th, 2012 Eric Wilson Earlier this month while in North Carolina, President Obama kicked off “EV-EVerywhere”, the second step in the Energy Department’s “Clean Energy Grand Challenges.” According to the press release, the grand challenges are “aimed at addressing the most pressing energy challenges of our time.” The goal of this particular challenge is to create electric vehicles that [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, President Obama, Transportation Tags: California, Department of Energy, Electric Vehicles, Natural Gas No Comments »New Energy Innovation Hub for Batteries and Energy Storage
February 29th, 2012 Eric Wilson Earlier this month Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced “plans to launch a new Energy Innovation Hub for advanced research on batteries and energy storage with an investment of up to $120 million over five years.” The purpose of this newest hub “will be to deliver research leading to revolutionary new technologies.” Applications are due [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Battery, Coal, Department of Energy, Electricity Generation, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Stephen Chu, Wind Power No Comments »Inside the 2013 Department of Energy Budget
February 21st, 2012 Eric Wilson As part of the massive $3.8 trillion dollar federal budget proposed recently by President Barack Obama, $27.2 billion was geared toward the Department of Energy (DOE). For those interested, here is a PDF of the DOE budget. Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu provided details of the budget proposal as it pertains to his office. In [...]
SunShot Initiative Aims to Make Solar Affordable
February 15th, 2012 Eric Wilson The United States’ Department of Energy (DOE) is working to bring down solar energy costs. The program, known as the SunShot Initiative, “is a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade.” The goal is to drive down the costs of solar energy [...]
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Department of Energy, Solar Energy, Stephen Chu No Comments »Department of Energy Announces 2013 Solar Decathlon Details
February 9th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last month the US Department of Energy (DOE) selected teams from 20 colleges and universities to take part in the 2013 Solar Decathlon at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California. (A full list of schools can be seen below). The location for next year’s Decathlon marks a departure from previous ones which were held [...]
ARPA-E Director Majumdar Lays It Out Plain and Simple
January 11th, 2012 Justin Manger Modeled after the successful Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the agency responsible for such technological innovations as the Internet and the stealth technology found in the F-117, the Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE) was established to focus on creative “out-of-the-box” transformational energy research. Regarding our current energy situation, this [...]
Five Friday Facts: Solar Power, China, and Trade
October 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from a New York Times article – which served as the basis for this post – on potential trade violations among Chinese solar panel manufacturers. The American solar power market is worth about $6 billion a year. China already accounts for three-fifths of the world’s solar panel production. China exports 95 [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Department of Energy, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Trade 2 Comments »
