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Tag: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Sol-REIT sets goal to raise $175 million to fund community solar projects by 2025

    Sol-REIT has joined the Department of Energy’s National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) as part of the firm’s commitment to fund more than $175 million in community solar projects by 2025. For solar developers with projects at or beyond their notice to proceed, Sol-REIT provides construction capital and/or permanent debt that matches an asset’s operational life……

  • US Forest Management Policy Must Evolve to Meet Bioenergy Targets

    “In a lot of environmental and natural resources law in the U.S., the primary role lies with the states to manage private land. But we also have national-level problems, like climate change, biodiversity and water-quality issues, which span jurisdictions. In other words, ecosystem services are not confined to a single state’s jurisdiction. So we have…

  • Researchers Engineer Plant Cell Walls to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels

    “Through the tools of synthetic biology, we have engineered healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for biofuels,” says Dominique Loque, who directs the cell wall engineering program for JBEI’s Feedstocks Division. “Working with the model plant, Arabidopsis, as a demonstration tool, we have genetically manipulated secondary cell…

  • Solar Keeps Getting Cheaper As Panel Prices Decline

    The annual U.S. report on installed PV shows prices fell between 11 and 14 percent in 2011, and indications are the trend was continuing into this year. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling. …

  • Solar Photovoltaic System Installation Costs on the Decline

    The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2010 and into the first half of 2011, according to the latest edition of an annual PV cost tracking report released by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). More…