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Dow & the National Renewable Energy Lab aim to develop and test a new process that uses a new catalyst to convert biomass to ethanol and a range of other useful chemical products, one that holds the promise of significantly reducing CO2 emissions and demand for imported oil.

The DoE's National Renewable Energy Lab and Silicon Valley start-up Optony will be working together to wed their thin-film and concentrating solar power technologies in an effort to develop lower cost solar photovoltaic systems.

From time to time the National Renewal Energy Lab (NREL) reminds us that the US used to be a leader in innovation. This time it’s in the area of solar thin film technology. The goal with solar thin film technology is to surpass the efficiency level of silicon solar cells.

Lawrence Kazmerski, Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics, discusses the prospects of solar-photovoltaic (PV) technologies, arguing that this solar-electricity source is at a tipping point in the very complex realm of worldwide energy. Kazmerski discusses how recent research and development advances in areas such as solar

The third Solar Decathlon attracts 20 universities to erect solar homes on the National Mall in Washington to compete and showcase innovativetechnologies.