Articles tagged with: energy
Op Ed - Syd S. Peng: We need to back fossil fuels
Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail
We have an urgent national priority: moving forward with the development and demonstration of energy-efficient technologies that would enable America to burn fossil fuels more cleanly and cheaply. With the outlook dimming for nuclear power and renewable energy sources, there are growing concerns that efforts to maintain air quality and combat global warming will fail as energy production increases in the years ahead. Fossil fuels meet 84 percent of U.S. energy demand, and the Energy Information Administration forecasts they will continue to be the primary energy sources well into the future.
Joint WVU-Virginia Tech symposium to explore energy issues
State Journal
“Energy and the Environment: A Morrill Act Sesquicentennial Symposium” at Pipestem State Park on April 25 will explore how two land-grant universities – West Virginia University and Virginia Tech – can further collaborate on energy issues ranging from production and consumption to efficiencies and environmental impacts. Offering keynote remarks from the U.S. Department of Energy will be Henry Kelly, acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Energy, and Michelle Fox, chief strategist for education and workforce development for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
WVU College of Law to expand energy curriculum
WBOY-TV
West Virginia University’s College of Law will expand its energy course curriculum by adding six new energy law classes during the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a news release from the University. The college of Law will also add to its energy law faculty by welcoming Professor Joshua Fershee this fall. Officials said Fershee, a former practitioner in the energy industry, will join WVU from the University of North Dakota where he is currently an associate professor at its School of Law. “This is an exciting time for energy law at WVU,” said Jamie Van Nostrand, associate professor and director of the WVU College of Law Center for Energy and Sustainable Development. “With the addition of these six new classes, we will be offering 10 energy law courses during the 2012-2013 year. We expect to expand the energy curriculum further in subsequent years, as the law school completes its building addition and the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development moves into its new space.”
http://www.wboy.com/story/17365182/wvus-college-of-law-expands-energy-course-cirriculum
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x1844275285/WVU-law-school-adding-6-courses-on-energy-issues
http://www.statejournal.com/story/17363328/wvu-college-of-law-to-expand-energy-curriculum
Former DOE undersecretary to discuss energy issues at WVU
Former DOE undersecretary to discuss energy issues at WVU
State Journal
A former undersecretary of science with the U.S. Department of Energy will speak at West Virginia University this week about energy issues. Steven Koonin will deliver the 2012 Dow/Union Carbide Seminar Honoring Jean Cropley at 1:30 p.m. March 23 at West Virginia University. The lecture, entitled, “Addressing America’s Energy Challenges,” will take place at the National Research Center for Coal and Energy’s assembly room 101 A/B. His speech is free and open to the public. According to a news release from WVU, the U.S. is the world’s third-largest producer of petroleum, yet it sends $1 billion out of the country each day to pay for oil. Koonin said the challenge for the nation and its residential, commercial and industrial sectors is to provide heat and power in environmentally responsible ways that strengthen U.S. competitiveness and protect the climate. During his speech, Koonin will review the findings of the DOE’s first Quadrennial Technology Review, which binds together multiple energy technologies, as well as multiple DOE energy technology programs, in the common purpose of solving our energy challenges.
High-Ranking Foreign Officials to Visit WVU
WBOY-TV/State Journal
A total of 13 high-ranking officials from energy environmental, economic and international relations ministries will visit West Virginia University’s internationally recognized energy faculty, according to a news release from the university. The discussion will take place at the WVU National Research Center for Coal and Energy on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Officials said the discussion will be on U.S. foreign policy and energy security. The officials are part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Officials said the individuals are from Bolivia, Bulgaria, Hungary, India, Israel, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Tunisia and Vietnam,
http://www.wboy.com/story/16909038/2012/02/10/high-ranking-foreign-officials-to-visit-wvu
WVU Team Selected to Compete in Energy Department's Solar Decathlon 2013
WBOY
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Thursday that West Virginia University has been selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013, according to a news release from the Department of Energy’s Office of Public Affairs. WVU will represent the state in the worldwide competition to build solar-powered, highly energy-efficient homes that combine affordability, consumer appeal and design excellence, officials said. Teams from 20 colleges and universities across the U.S. and around the world were selected and will begin a two-year process to design, construct and test their homes before reassembling them at the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition in Irvine, CA, according to the news release.
WVU, nonprofit join to promote energy efficiency
The Dominion Post
Difficult economic times force many consumers to cut back on luxuries and even some necessities. One area of the home budget that doesn’t seem to have a lot of flexibility involves utility costs. But a group of WVU students helped some local residents look for ways to reduce their energy costs. The students, enrolled in the Design for Energy Efficiency course offered by WVU’s Division of Design & Merchandising, teamed with New Vision Renewable Energy to conduct home energy audits in the Bertha Hill area in late October. New Vision worked with WVU to schedule energy audits on several homes in the area to identify opportunities for making them as efficient as possible. The efficient homes will maximize the potential of the renewable energy systems to be installed in the homes by New Vision.
Energy Regulation a Delicate Balance Between Health and Economy
State Journal
State and federal politicians leveling phrases such as “job-killing,” “out-of-control” and “over-reaching” at federal agencies have prompted a complex debate on how to walk the line between over-taming business and letting industry run wild. Although regulations have the force of law, the details of those regulations are often not written or even passed by lawmakers. Writing laws giving that authority to regulatory bodies ensures those with the resources and technical ability to do so write the details lawmakers may not understand or have time to address. In addition to broad authority, regulators, who often are not elected or required to answer to a voting constituency, are given flexibility to change and adapt regulations within various parameters outlined by the legislation. “Such an approach recognizes that it is often much less efficient and less time-consuming to pass or amend a law than it is to change the course of regulation via agency rulemaking,” said Patrick McGinley, a professor of law at West Virginia University.
Energy Department Awards WVU Researchers for Gulf Oil Spill Work
State Journal
West Virginia University engineering professors Brian J. Anderson and Shahab D. Mohaghegh recently earned high achievement awards from U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The two were recognized for their efforts with the National Energy Technology Laboratory in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The NETL team was recognized for estimating the rate of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, and also for developing options to cap the well. This work led to effective analyses of raw data, which guided major decisions to help reduce the environmental cost of the disaster.
NETL projects selected to conduct geothermal energy research
R&D Magazine
Two geothermal energy projects led by researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have been selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. These projects, along with 30 others selected through a competitive process, promise to help accelerate development of geothermal energy technologies and diversify America’s sources of clean, renewable energy. One NETL award is for a project that will improve capabilities for predicting the behavior and performance of fracture networks in enhanced geothermal systems. NETL researchers will partner with scientists from Penn State, West Virginia University, and the University of Pittsburgh in the two-year effort. The team will execute experimental, analytical, and modeling work that involves pre-characterization of fluid-rock samples and modeling of flow through fractures; experimental work with regular monitoring of fluid composition; post-characterization of the samples to assess final reaction products; and coupling isotopic behavior to fluid-rock reactions that occurred during the experiment. The project was awarded up to $1,000,000 in support.
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