U.S. energy needs have changed dramatically over the last few decades, and questions are growing as to whether our grid can manage these new demands. Aside from rising temperatures—the National ...

Pioneering research could provide a significant boost in the vital quest to harness wave power as a viable renewable energy source for the future. Researchers deployed wave measurement buoys and used ...

Oregon State University’s (OSU’s) Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) was awarded up to $40 million by the Department of Energy (DOE) on December 21 to create what the center ...

CalWave has been working on its xWave clean power technology for many years now, and has announced the successful conclusion of an extended open-ocean test off the coast of San Diego, in which the ...

The Japanese conglomerate and the Osaka Metropolitan University are testing an aquifer thermal energy storage system that directly uses 10,000 m3 of groundwater stored at 5 C in a cooling well. It is ...

On a boat bobbing up and down in the waves off Newport, Burke Hales gave instructions to the ship captain. “So a little bit in and a tiny bit south,” Hales said, peering at the sonar screen. “We ...

Distributed energy storage (DES) is an enabling technology for the future power grid. Largely consisting of advanced electrochemical batteries, DES systems increase the efficiency of large centralized ...

The Korea Institute of Energy Research (President: Yi Chang-Keun, hereinafter referred to as KIER) has been accredited by the International Electrotechnical Commission Renewable Energy Certification ...

Oregon State University’s Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center has been awarded up to $40 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to create the world’s premier wave energy test ...