Through an arrangement with the Indian Parliament, the Punjab Energy Development Agency has invited bids for installing an 80 kW solar PV system. The solar array would provide battery backup for the Parliament building in the off-chance of a blackout, however over 50 percent of the generated power would be fed back into the grid. The project would help promote the use of solar PV systems which remain unpopular due to the high costs and lower efficiency when compared to other…

DOE Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the funding for 46 multi-million dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) sited at universities, nonprofit organizations, national laboratories and private firms throughout the country. $277 of the $377 million was made available via…

The University of Wisconsin has brought the prospect of energy independence and economic potency to its newest degree program, which is the country’s first online Sustainable Management bachelors’ degree. The university extension has come together with several other University of Wisconsin campuses – UW Parkside, UW River Falls, UW Superior and UW Stout – so that they may create a degree program that provides green recruits with the organization abilities they will need to manage…

Sapphire Energy – based in La Jolla, California – recently announced that they expect to produce one million gallons of diesel and jet fuel annually by 2011, doubling their original estimation. The company, which is renowned in the algae fuel industry, has produced over $100M with help from big-name financiers such as Bill Gates, ARCH Venture Partners, Venrock and Welcome Trust. The company is also working with Continental and JAL commercial airlines to provide jet fuel…

Living plants take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during their lifetime and once their life is over, carbon from the plant is let back into the atmosphere as a mixture of carbon dioxide (C02) and methane (ch4). Once that carbon hits the air, the methane is converted into carbon dioxide (C02), which multiplies the amount of carbon as the end result. This is why when burned as an oil, fossil fuels and biofuels release…