The UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has received a $1.6 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to develop an innovative partnership in Hazard, Kentucky, that could serve as a model for future energy projects in rural Eastern Kentucky communities.
The UK Center for Applied Energy Research will use the $300,000 grant from the Shanxi Science and Technology Department to scale-up its hybrid technology for post-combustion CO2 capture in a coal-fired power plant.
UK researchers participating in a DOE funded multi-institutional center (BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center) have discovered a groundbreaking process that allows them to harness energy from chemical reactions that previously dismissed as unusable.
Weisenberger Mill, UK's CAER, and Shaker Landing Hydro Associates have teamed up to pilot test the first variable-speed generator in U.S. hydroelectric plant.
