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| A Guide to Recent Battery Advances |  |
| Battery breakthroughs could lower costs and improve performance for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage--but commercializing these new technologies will be challenging.
Electric vehicles, hybrids, and renewable energy have at least one thing in common--if they`re ever going to be more widely used, representing the majority of cars on the road or a large share of electricity supply, batteries need to get significantly better. Batteries will need to store more energy, deliver it faster and more reliably, and ultimately, cost far less. The specific ways batteries need to improve vary by the application, but in all these areas, researchers have been making significant headway.
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| Western governors consider alternative energy, climate change | |
| New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday. |
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| Ga. stays out of East Coast wind power group | |
| Concerned about future costs and obligations, Georgia officials want more information before they get involved in a plan to generate energy from windmills off the East Coast. |
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| Govs consider alternative energy, climate change | |
| Governors from Western states say new transmission lines are critical to developing alternative energy that will be needed in the coming years. |
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First U.S. offshore wind energy project faces lawsuit | |
| Environmental groups plan to file suit in federal court, accusing the Obama administration of violating the Endangered Species Act with its approval of the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.
Environmental groups filed suit Friday in federal district court arguing that the nation`s first offshore wind energy project violates the Endangered Species Act.
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| US official: oil spill shows need for green energy | |
| A senior American energy official says the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico dramatically illustrates the need for investing in renewable sources of energy. |
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| Group demands special session on drilling, renewable energy | |
| With a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico fouling Northwest Florida beaches, environmental activists, business leaders and academics convened a Clean Energy Congress at the Capitol on Monday and issued a challenge to Florida lawmakers. |
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| Daryl Hannah - Hannah Urges Obama to Go Green | |
| Actress DARYL HANNAH is urging U.S. President BARACK OBAMA to go green and install solar panels on the roof of the White House. |
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| Sharp® Celebrates Production of Its Two Millionth Solar Panel at Memphis Manufacturing Facility | |
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| Blueprint for Building US Wind Supply Chain Released | |
| According to a report released on Monday by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), BlueGreen Alliance and the United Steelworkers, the U.S. wind industry can create tens of thousands of additional jobs manufacturing wind turbines and components if the U.S. passes long-term policies that create a stable market for the domestic wind energy supply chain. |
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| Solon & Saint-Gobain Sign 70-MW Deal | |
| Solon SE and Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Deutschland GmbH (SGBDD) have concluded a framework contract spanning several years to deliver more than 70 megawatts (MW) of solar modules. |
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| 100-kW Bloom Box Unveiled in Tennessee | |
| Officials and representatives in Chattanooga, Tennessee this week inaugurated the City`s first Bloom Box, a 100-kilowatt (kW) energy system based on fuel cell technology from California`s Bloom Energy. The project is the continuation of a long-standing partnership between the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the National Center for Computational Engineering (SimCenter), EPB, TVA, The Enterprise Center and Bloom Energy that began with Bloom`s first field trial of its technology in 2006. |
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| Small Wind, Big Breakthrough | |
| The small wind industry took a big step as the Small Wind Certification Council (SWCC) announced the first 13 turbine models that have begun the process of SWCC certification to the American Wind Energy Association Small Wind Turbine Performance and Safety Standard. SWCC began accepting applications in February to verify the durability, function, power performance, and acoustic characteristics of small wind turbines in accordance with the AWEA Standard. SWCC anticipates it will certify the first turbine by fall 2010. Most of the turbines with pending certification applications will receive certification decisions in 2011. |
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| Small Wind Picks Up Even as Economy Turns Down | |
| The number of Americans generating their own electricity with small-scale wind turbines (those with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts and under) increased by just under 10,000 last year despite an economic downturn that impacted the heart of the small wind market: homeowners and small-business owners. |
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