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Solar power and job Energy Department's geothermal

training
efforts honored

East Baltimore’s C.A.R.E Community has kicked Research and development projects in the Energy Department's

of a project that will bring the beneits of solar geothermal oice technical portfolio garnered ive awards this

power to local residents and serve as a model year at the Geothermal Energy Association’s (GEA) National

for improving community sustainability and Geothermal Summit. Amidst a celebrated list of twelve

resiliency citywide. Led by nonproit GRID sector trailblazers and industry standouts, including Ormat
Alternatives in partnership with the Baltimore Technologies, Enel Green Power of North America, and Cyrq

Oice of Sustainability and the Baltimore Energy; these projects made signiicant gains toward reducing

Energy Challenge, the project includes solar the cost and risk of geothermal deployment. Annually, the

installations for 10 families and a community GEA selects candidates who make appreciable advances in the

center, cool roofs for increased eiciency,
adoption of geothermal energy through technical and commercial
and 1600 hours of hands-on solar training achievements.

opportunities for local residents.
Four DOE awards managed by the DOE’s national laboratories

Made possible with support from the Abell received mention during the 2015 GEA Honors:

Foundation, this will be the irst Baltimore • Ernie Majer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for

area project for GRID Alternatives, the nation’s excellence in induced seismicity and EGS research
• Thomas Edmunds and Pedro Sotorrio
largest nonproit solar installer. It comes at
, Lawrence Livermore
a time of tremendous growth for the solar National Lab, for innovative analysis that contributes to an

industry and amid ongoing local, state, and understanding of future energy markets and geothermal's role

federal policy discussions around making in the broader context of renewable energy sources

solar power more accessible to underserved • Dan Getman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),

communities and improving their climate for pioneering research that yielded the Geothermal Prospector
resilience.
mapping tool

GRID Alternatives
• Jordan Macknick, NREL, for improving the understanding of

www.gridalternatives.org
geothermal water use

GEA also honored former director of the Geothermal

Technologies Oice (GTO) Doug Hollett for his outstanding
achievements in geothermal development.

Geothermal Technologies Ofice | www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal

Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) | www.geo-energy.org

Boosting connectivity to hybrids and EVs

Ford has been working to extend connectivity innovations to wearable technology.

he company developed a MyFord Mobile app extension coming soon for smartwatches, including

Android Wear. he MyFord Mobile application, already available for smartphones, will provide customers

the ability to check the driving range and battery charge for their plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle

quickly from their wrists before they leave on a trip, and to even ind the location where they last parked.
Ford Motor Company | www.ford.com

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