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HOMER® Featured on New US Government Energy Site
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) January 28, 2010
HOMER® Energy software is featured as part of a new Department of Energy (DOE) initiative to share technical energy information with the public and international community through an interactive web portal called Open Energy Information http://en.openei.org/wiki/HOMER. The HOMER software, which stands for “hybrid optimization model for electric renewables” is an energy modeling and simulation program used for designing distributed power systems that integrate renewable and conventional energy resources. HOMER is particularly well-suited for designing power systems where the electric grid is unreliable or unavailable.
Unveiled by US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu last month, the Open Energy Information web platform will help make US energy efficiency and renewable energy analysis tools available on a free wiki-platform. Part of the new platform, called the International Clean Energy Analysis Gateway, targets developing countries. Secretary Chu has also announced DOE funding of a new Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) to accelerate deployment of renewable energy technologies in developing countries.
The HOMER software identifies least cost designs for sub-utility scale power systems and compares the long-term financial and environmental impacts of different configurations. As the world is moving to higher penetrations of renewable energy, “HOMER’s detailed simulation capability is essential for optimizing the mix of variable renewable and conventional power sources,” said Peter Lilienthal, developer of HOMER and founder of HOMER Energy. Finally, it models these system configurations under multiple future scenarios, such as changes in fuel prices, power demand, and technology costs.
HOMER was developed at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory seventeen years ago and has since been downloaded by over 39,000 users in 193 countries. HOMER simplifies the complex task of modeling energy systems and can incorporate wind, solar, conventional engines, micro turbines, fuel cells, batteries and other power sources as inputs.
About HOMER Energy
HOMER Energy is located in Boulder, Colorado. It supplies software and services to the rapidly growing international Renewable Distributed Energy market, forecast to be $ 80 billion by 2014. In 2009, HOMER Energy received a license from NREL with exclusive rights to enhance, support, and distribute the HOMER software world-wide. For more information about HOMER and to download the software, please visit http://www.homerenergy.com
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Boom in Energy Jobs Encourages Major Career Company to Launch a New Site Dedicated to Energy Jobs
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Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) May 22, 2008
On Monday, May 19, EmploymentCrossing.com
EmploymentCrossing.com, one of the world’s largest job opening research companies, launched www.EnergyCrossing.com . EnergyCrossing.com provides a collection of energy jobs so comprehensive that is aiming to completely change how people search for energy jobs. EnergyCrossing.com consolidates energy job announcements from employer websites, other job boards and small regional publications.
As fuel prices continue to skyrocket and as the public continues to learn of the very real, catastrophic problems associated with global warming, energy professionals are in hot demand in the US today to develop alternative fuels, as well as more efficient ways to develop clean and renewable forms of energy.
“In this market, people looking for energy jobs need to know the full scale of opportunities available,” says Harrison Barnes, founder and CEO of EnergyCrossing. “Job openings that are not widely known or publicized are the easiest jobs to get and these are the jobs we specialize in tracking down.”
Some areas EnergyCrossing researches enegry job openings for include:
● Geoscience jobs
● Drilling energy jobs
● Reservoir energy jobs
● Solar energy jobs
● Wind energy jobs
● Green energy jobs
● Powerplant energy jobs
EnergyCrossing.com, an EmploymentCrossing (www.employmentcrossing.com) website, was launched to assist energy professionals with sorting out the opportunities that they may not find out about otherwise and save them thousands of hours of research. Unlike other job boards, the site focuses solely on energy jobs, and it doesn’t charge employers to post jobs.
“EnergyCrossing.com is a research company that works for job seekers. We have developed a database of thousands of energy jobs,” Barnes says. “We seek to connect energy professionals to employers.”
The most popular searches on EnergyCrossing.com during its first day in operation were:
● Renewable energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Green energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Department of Energy Jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Jobs in the energy section and EnergyCrossing.com
● Energy trading jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Wind energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Renewable energy jobs Houston, Texas and EnergyCrossing.com
● Duke Energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
● Powerplant energy jobs and EnergyCrossing.com
EnergyCrossing.com charges $ 29.95 a month to view its energy job opening research. As part of the site’s launch special, however, EnergyCrossing.com is offering a free 7 day trial to familiarize job seekers with the service.
For more information about EnergyCrossing.com, please visit www.EnergyCrossing.com.
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