While marine energy technologies are still at the relatively early stages of development in the United States, their resource potential is immense and distributed widely across the nation’s coastlines and rivers.  To document these opportunities, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently reported on them during February 2021. Focusing on technically recoverable marine energy resources...Read More

With so many renewable energy options and new alternative fuel technologies like OceanBased Perpetual Energy seemingly being created by the minute, what will the future of the U.S. Power Sector look like? Fortunately, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed its annual Standard Scenarios Outlook to provide context, discussion, and data for stakeholders to...Read More

Indeed, the hydrogen economy is widely regarded as the future of alternative energy, but how can so many different hydrogen production technologies possibly be integrated into our national electrical grid? Join the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) H2IQ Hour tomorrow, November 24, 2020, at 12 p.m. (ET) to...Read More

Those hungry to absorb knowledge about the growing field of Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) may want to make their first stop at OpenEI, an energy information portal sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in support of the Open Government Initiative to make energy data transparent, participatory, and collaborative. Among...Read More

Across the world, renewable power is displacing traditional generation, but can renewables also replace the critical stability functions that go with it?  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported yesterday, September 13, 2020, that studies are confirming in the field and on live power systems that solar, wind, and hybrid power plants can provide their own...Read More