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• Construction Complete On World’s Largest Solar PV Facility

  

  Construction is complete on the world’s largest solar photovoltaic plant, Agua Caliente, in Arizona. (Credit: Business Wire)NRG Energy, Inc. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• China Adopts Policies to Reduce Growing Oil Use

  

  Chinese vehicle sales and gasoline consumption, 2003-2013. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration)Unprecedented motorization in China has led to... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• IEA: Electricity to Rival Oil as Dominant Energy Carrier

  

  The IEA has released the Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 report.Electricity will increasingly power the world’s economies in the 21st century, rivaling oil... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists to Make Plants More Efficient at Photosynthesis

  

  A new discovery has the potential to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis in plants. (Credit: Flickr @ stephen jones https://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Mobile App Provides Info on Norwegian Oil Fields

  

  Oil Facts app for iPhone.The new Oil Facts app from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, a Norwegian government agency responsible for the regulation of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EU Project to Develop Thermoelectric Generators for Heavy Vehicles

  

  EU project aims to replace the on-board generators of heavy vehicles with new thermoelectric ones. (Credit: Technical University of Denmark)A new European... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Estonia Becomes 29th Member of International Energy Agency

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Ville Säävuori https://www.flickr.com/photos/uninen/)Estonia officially became the 29th member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) on... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Report: UK Government Doesn’t Take Community Energy Projects Seriously

  

  The Solar Decathlon 2013 teams join together for a group photo ahead of the start of competition at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, CA on October 3, 201... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Study Looks for Methane From Deepwater Horizon Spill

  

  Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, studies the oil plumes generated by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• CentRec Receiver Stores Solar Energy in Ceramic Particles

  

  Solar Thermal Test and Demonstration Power Plant Jülich. (Credit: German Aerospace Center)The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Airbus Group’s All-Electric E-Fan Aircraft Makes First Flight

  

  The successful first public flight of the electric E-Fan experimental aircraft took place during the E-Aircraft Day in Bordeaux on the 25th of April 2014. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Gain Insight Into High-Temperature Superconductivity

  

  Scientists gain insight into the intricacies of high-temperature superconductivity. (Credit: Flickr @ mark sebastian https://www.flickr. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Criminal Groups Endanger Mexican Energy Reform

  

  Mexico’s organized crime expanded from drug smuggling and arms trade to the theft of crude oil, gas and gasoline. (Credit: Flickr @ Jesús Villaseca Pérez... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Book: Energy Matters Central to Crisis in Ukraine

  

  Stefan Hedlund publishes a book “Putin’s Energy Agenda”. (Credit: Flickr @ duncan c https://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/)The energy issue, specifically trade i... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Renewable Portfolio Standards Drive Wind Energy Innovation

  

  Wind turbines in Palm Springs, California. (Credit: Flickr @ Sharon https://www.flickr.com/photos/4thglryofgod/)A Carnegie Mellon University study has found tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientist Control Molecular Vibrations to Produce Hydrogen

  

  The authors of the research Rainer Beck and P. Morten Hundt in their lab. (Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL)The reaction that converts methane into hydrogen... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Hybrid Solar-Wind Energy Tower to Be Built in AZ

  

  A novel hybrid solar-wind power plant to be developed in Arizona. (Credit: Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc.)Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• No Radiation From Fukushima Detected on West Coast

  

  A graduate student in the marine biology program at Cal State Long Beach collects kelp in the waters off of Long Beach during Kelp Watch 2014’s initial... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA: U.S. Producers Target Natural Gas Liquids

  According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the relatively high value of natural gas liquids (NGL) has led producers to target wet gas. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• EIA Releases Annual Energy Outlook 2014

  

  EIA releases complete Annual Energy Outlook 2014 report. (Credit: U.S. Energy Information Administration)The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY