Yosemite National Park in California will soon be home to the largest solar energy installation in the U.S. National Park System. Officials yesterday announced that the park will install a 539-kilowatt (kW), grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system at a maintenance complex located just outside park boundaries. With all the bad news (and oil) coming out of the [...]

Kate Mackenzie over at FT’s Energy Source relays an interesting overview of U.S. R&D spending on energy, courtesy of Alexis Madrigral who, in turn, draws from a Pacific Northwest National Lab report by James Dooley. The main takeaways? (1) Relative to other expenditures, like health and national defense, America has over the years spent paltry [...]