ASERTTI News
SAVE THE DATE: ASERTTI Fall
2010 Meeting, October 4-7, 2010
Please mark your calendars for the fall 2010
ASERTTI meeting, which will be held October 4-7 in
Long Island, New York. This
year's meeting will be hosted by Brookhaven National
Laboratory. More information
regarding the agenda and registration will be coming
soon. Please continue to check
the
ASERTTI website for the latest updates.
DOE Awards $92 Million for
Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu recently
announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim
to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and
produces energy. Funded with $92
million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act through the Department of Energy's Advanced
Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the
selections focus on accelerating innovation in green
technology while increasing America's
competitiveness in grid scale energy storage, power
electronics and building efficiency.
The projects announced are based in 18
states, with 36 percent of projects led by
universities, 33 percent by small businesses, 24
percent by large businesses, 5 percent by national
labs, and 2 percent by non-profits. These awards
complete ARPA-E's grants under its Recovery Act
funding: in three rounds of awards since last year,
the agency has selected a total of 117 projects for
$349 million in funding, supporting research that
can deliver breakthrough changes in how the U.S.
generates, stores, and utilizes energy.
Please
click
here for the full story, including a link to all
project selections and technical descriptions.
U.S. Departments of Energy and
Interior Announce Site for Solar Energy
Demonstration Projects in the Nevada Desert
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu,
U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada
announced today the site of the new Solar
Demonstration Zone to demonstrate cutting-edge solar
energy technologies. The Solar Demonstration Zone
will be located in the southwest corner of the
Nevada Test Site, a former nuclear site, on lands
owned by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) and administered by DOE's National
Nuclear Security Administration. Secretaries Chu and
Salazar signed an interagency Memorandum of
Understanding that will enable the Department of
Energy to develop innovative solar energy projects
at the Nevada Test Site. These
projects will serve as proving grounds for new solar
technologies, providing a critical link between
DOE's advanced technology development and full-scale
commercialization efforts. Please
click
here for the full story.
DOE EERE Organizational Chart
Please
click here for an updated organizational
chart for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Please note that the slots highlighted in
yellow denote "acting" positions.
Model Lighting Ordinance
Draft 2 Now Available
The International Dark Sky Association and the
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
Boards of Directors have approved the release of the
Second Draft of the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO)
for Public Review and Comment. In
response to the wide number of public comments
submitted February - April 2009, the MLO Joint Task
Force developed the revised MLO Draft, which
incorporated many of the public comments.
The second draft is now available for Public
Review and Comment. The review
period will last for 60 days, starting June 24, 2010
and ending on August 23, 2010.
Please
click here for highlights of issues addressed in
the draft as well as a link to download the full
text.
CA Energy Commission Boosts
Cutting-Edge Trucks and Buses with Nearly $20
Million
ASERTTI member, the California Energy Commission,
recently approved 11 awards that leverage almost $20
million in state funding with $9.3 million in
federal stimulus money and $39 million in private
funds. These projects will demonstrate the
possibilities for cutting-edge natural gas-powered,
hybrid, and electric trucks and buses to reduce
petroleum use, cut pollution and provide jobs.
"California's investment in alternative fuels
and technology will leverage nearly two-and-a-half
times as much money for an important part of our
transportation sector," said Energy Commissioner
Anthony Eggert. "While electric and hybrid cars get
much of the media attention, advances in large,
heavy-duty trucks and buses can replace millions of
gallons of petroleum each year."
Please
click here for a summary of the 11 projects,
their costs and benefits.
Three EPRI Scientists
Selected as Lead Authors for Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change 5th Assessment
ASERTTI member, the Electric Power Research
Institute, recently announced that three of its
scientists have been selected by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as
lead authors for its fifth assessment report on
climate change, which will be released in 2013-2014.
They will serve on the writing team of the
Working Group III Report, "Mitigation of Climate
Change." More than 3,000 nominations for
approximately 200 positions were received from
governments, nongovernmental organizations and
others to work on the mitigation report.
Richard Richels, senior technical executive,
in the Global Climate Change Program in EPRI's
Environment sector, will serve as a lead author of
the chapter titled, "Drivers, Trends and
Mitigation." Geoffrey Blanford
and Steven Rose of EPRI's Global Climate Change
program have been named lead authors for the chapter
titled, "Assessing Transformation Pathways." Please
click here for the full story.
GTI to Develop and Test
Membrane Technologies for Post-combustion CO2
Capture
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced
the selection of ten projects aimed at developing
advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide
(CO2) from coal combustion. The
projects, valued at up to $67 million over three
years, focus on reducing the energy and efficiency
penalties associated with applying currently
available carbon capture and storage (CCS)
technologies to existing and new power plants.
ASERTTI member, the Gas Technology Institute,
in partnership with PoroGen Corporation and Aker
Process Systems, proposes a three-year effort to
develop cost-effective hybrid separation technology
for CO2 capture from flue gases based on a
combination of absorption and hollow fiber membrane
technologies. The technology
could also apply to removal of numerous other gas
pollutants such as NOx and SOx, separation of CO2
from hydrogen in refinery streams, and separation of
CO2 from natural gas (natural gas sweetening).
Please
click
here for the DOE press release.
NYSDOT, NYSERDA Fund
Research to Improve Transportation Efficiencies in
New York State
The New York State Department of Transportation
(NYSDOT) and ASERTTI member, the New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA),
jointly announced funding of $1.6 million for seven
cost-shared research projects that reduce congestion
and petroleum fuel use and increase the efficiency
of New York's existing transportation systems.
These funds will support the development and
demonstration of advanced technologies to ease
traffic congestion while enhancing the State's
economy and quality of life. The
investment, which includes $800,000 of federal
funds, will leverage an additional $1.4 million of
private-sector funds to provide a total of $3
million of investments. Please
click here for the full story.
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