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DOE Early Career Award to Fund UCSB Research on Biomass-Derived Fuels

Michelle O'Malley, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a 2013 Early Career Award by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science. O'Malley is among 61 recipients of the annual research award, chosen from a pool of approximately 770 proposals.

18 May 2013

Fortum's Klaipeda Power Plant Utilizes Municipal, Industrial Waste and Biomass

Dalia Grybauskaitë, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Sauli Niinistö, President of the Republic of Finland, have today inaugurated Fortum's new combined heat and power plant in the city of Klaipeda, Lithuania.

17 May 2013

Tampereen Energiantuotanto’s Pellet-Fired Heating Plant Helps the Region Lower CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions

Finland's largest pellet-fired heating plant, which was supplied by Metso to Tampereen Energiantuotanto Oy, Tampere, is based on a technological solution that is the first of its kind in the country. It will bring new opportunities to gear the structure of Finnish district heat production towards the goals of sustainable development. Previously, peak load plants have been using fossil fuels because there was no other technology available.

17 May 2013

Novel Energy Production System to Convert Food Waste into Clean Energy

The Kroger Co. today unveiled a clean energy production system that will convert food that can't be sold or donated into clean energy to help power its Ralphs/Food 4 Less Compton distribution center.

17 May 2013

Agreement on Provincial Share of Total Greenhouse Gas Reduction Critical to Address Climate-Change Challenge

To reach Canada's goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 17 per cent below the 2005 level by the year 2020, federal and provincial governments, led by the Prime Minister and provincial premiers, must reach agreement on what portion of the total GHG reduction will be provided by each province say researchers from the University of Toronto's School of the Environment. Their report is being sent to all Canadian federal and provincial governments, opposition parties and other participants in the climate policy dialogue.

17 May 2013

UBThisSummer Lecture Series to Showcase UB’s Research Pertaining to the Environment

“The Environment” is the theme of the eighth edition of the UBThisSummer Lecture Series, the annual summer series of talks by prominent UB faculty members.

17 May 2013

Urban Green Energy (UGE) Launch New Wind Turbine

Distributed energy leader Urban Green Energy unveils VisionAIR - Urban Green Energy (UGE) Launch New Wind Turbine

16 May 2013

Potentially Cost-Effective Method to Generate Hydrogen Gas from Water and Sunlight

Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas directly from water and sunlight.

16 May 2013

Environmentally Friendly Way of Pretreating Miscanthus for Biofuel Production

Two University of Illinois scientists have developed an environmentally friendly and more economical way of pretreating Miscanthus in the biofuel production process.

16 May 2013

Promising Technique Improves Production of Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass

The production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass would benefit on several levels if carried out at temperatures between 65 and 70 degrees Celsius. Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) have employed a promising technique for improving the ability of enzymes that break cellulose down into fermentable sugars to operate in this temperature range.

16 May 2013

Vehicles Powered by Alternative Energy Sources Displayed at 21st Century Automotive Challenge

The Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s Hybrid and Hydrogen Vehicle Research Laboratory will host the 21st Century Automotive Challenge on May 16-19 at Penn State’s University Park campus.

16 May 2013

Breathing Vehicle Emissions Linked to Clogged Arteries

Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually contributes to clogged arteries.

16 May 2013

Development of a New Solar Cooker to Harness Sun's Energy

A solar cooker able to harness the sun’s energy for cooking food and purifying water has been developed with expert help from Cranfield University.

From Cranfield University 15 May 2013

CEC Awards LLNL-Cool Earth Solar $1.7 M for Community-Scale Renewable Energy Demonstration Project

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $1.7 million to a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Cool Earth Solar Inc. (CES) to conduct a community-scale renewable energy integration demonstration project at the Livermore Valley Open Campus.

15 May 2013

Saudi Engineers Receive Training about Renewable Resource Monitoring and Mapping at NREL

Saudi Arabia is planning to move aggressively into renewable energy, with plans to install more solar and wind power in the next 20 years than the rest of the world has installed to date.

From National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 15 May 2013