US homeowners will now be able to simulate the impact of converting conventional heating and cooling systems to geothermal heat pumps. The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy ...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a federally funded research center, has launched a new project to address the increasing energy consumption of data center cooling. The project, funded ...

Naturally occurring underground heat could help with renewable energy generation, thanks to technological advances. Mountain ...

The NREL study, published in the journal Joule, focused on air-source heat pumps, which are less expensive but also less efficient than their geothermal cousins. Air-source heat pumps cycle a ...