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Renewable Electricity in DFW: Access, Distribution, and Consumer Awareness

Description: Texas is the leading producer of renewable energy in the U.S, and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) is the largest metropolitan area in the state. Texas has a deregulated energy market, with three types of providers: privatized, public-owned, and co-operatives. Privatized providers compete in the deregulated market, and consumers choose between hundreds of electricity retailers. Public-owned providers are owned by the municipality, and electricity consumers that live within the city limits must use the m… more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Greer, Marissa
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Algorithmically Optimized Hemispherical Dome as a Secondary Optical Element for the Fresnel Lens Solar Concentrator

Description: This article focuses on a way to maximize the concentration acceptance product (CAP), while using the minimum SOE and receiver geometry at a given f-number and incidence angle (also referred to as the tracking error angle). The laws of polychromatic light refraction along with trigonometry and spherical geometry were utilized to optimize the POE grooves, SOE radius, receiver size, and SOE–receiver spacing.
Date: July 8, 2019
Creator: Qandil, Hassan; Wang, Shuping & Zhao, Weihuan
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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[News Clip: Windmill]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 24, 1983
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fuel Cells]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 2000
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: NBC 5 (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Geothermal]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 4, 1982
Duration: 2 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Comanche Peak]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: June 19, 1985
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Environmentalists]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 16, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Energy]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 10, 1977, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Roadmap for Incorporating Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Policies and Programs into State and Tribal Implementation Plans

Description: Report describing four pathways for incorporating energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) policies in State and Tribal Implementation Plans (SIPs/TIPs). The purpose of the report is to reduce the barriers for state, tribal, and local agencies to incorporate EE/RE policies in SIPs/TIPs by clarifying existing EPA guidance.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Outreach and Information Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Clean Power Plan

Description: Key topics and issues surrounding the 2015 Clean Power Plan prepared by EPA, including reliability, time frame, types of power, and compliance by area.
Date: 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Milford Wind Corridor Project Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah

Description: A report which analyses the environmental consequences of the Milford Wind Corridor Project. The information inside the paper assists the Bureau of Land Management in evaluating whether to grant a right-of-way (ROW) on public lands.
Date: October 15, 2008
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Converting Limbo Lands to Energy-Generating Stations: Renewable Energy Technologies on Underused, Formerly Contaminated Sites

Description: This report addresses the potential for using "Limbo Lands" as sites for renewable energy generating stations. Limbo Lands are considered as underused, formerly contaminated sites, and include former Superfund sites, landfills, brownfield, abandoned min lands, former industrial sites, and certain government installations.
Date: October 2007
Creator: Mosey, Gail; Heimiller, Donna; Dahle, Douglas; Vimmerstedt, Laura & Brady-Sabeff, Liz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy and Environment Guide to Action

Description: A guide providing information about many programs that states are using to meet their energy, economic, and environmental objectives with energy efficiency, renewable energy, and combined heat and power.
Date: 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Residential Heating in Remote Arctic Villages: Research Needs

Description: This report provides information on data gaps and research needs related to how heat is used in villages in order to better understand how renewable energy systems, energy efficiencies, and education and/or policy level efforts might best address heating needs for remote communities.
Date: January 20, 2016
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 12 projects that are a part of the Innovative Materials and Processes for Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: May 18, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rare-Earth-Free Nanostructure Magnets

Description: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of composite materials made of iron and manganese as part of the "Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets for Electric Vehicle Motors and Wind Turbine Generators: Hexagonal Symmetry Based Materials Systems Mn-Bi and M-t… more
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: University of Alabama
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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