Published: Thursday, January 21, 2021
Energy Department headquarters. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Department of Energy headquarters in Washington. Francis Chung/E&E News
The Department of Energy unveiled a senior leadership team this morning, saying it will carry out President Biden s vision for bold action on the climate crisis.
The team includes two new jobs: a deputy director for energy justice and a director of energy jobs a nod both to Biden s pledge to address environmental justice and to his effort to center his climate plan on green energy jobs.
Tarak Shah. Photo credit: Department of Energy
Tarak Shah.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) new leadership team is a diverse group of individuals with a wide range of experience across the power sector and
EMC Pilot Line
Roll-to-roll printing of metal conductors on Corning® Willow® Glass (flexible glass) at 60 meters per minute sets a world speed record for printing flexible electronics on glass. The process surpasses the company s goal of achieving less than 5% loss in the transmission of light though the conductive layer.
The manufacture of transparent conducting films, commonly found in flat panel screens, touchscreens on phones and tablets, as well as solar panels, is a complex and costly production step requiring low resistance electrodes that transmit a large fraction of incident light. A key piece of our high-speed, low-cost model is to print all the layers of our solar module in one continuous inline process. Typical transparent conductors are manufactured using a high temperature, vacuum deposition process that is more than ten times too slow to be integrated into our high-speed inline system, stated Dr. Tom Tombs, EMC CTO. Our ability to print fine metal lines at
Energy Systems Integration Newsletter: December 2020
In this edition, NREL publishes a comprehensive guide to understanding inverter-dominated power systems, the Department of Energy awards NREL to pursue national solutions in solar integration, an article from NREL researchers in
IEEE Spectrum looks at the autonomous power grid of the future, and more.
Technical Roadmap Guides Research Direction for Grid-Forming Inverters
Power electronics including the inverters that interface solar, wind, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles are a rapidly expanding presence on the electric grid. As a result, inverters will inherit new responsibilities and introduce new challenges. Recognizing a knowledge gap, a team of experts from NREL and several collaborating