“Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.”
--- Thomas H. Allen

Harnessing the immensity of today’s national energy challenges requires rigorous examination of current and potential problems. By focusing on renewable resources, conservation, efficiency, consumption, and security, VT-ARC is committed to building a vast and active community devoted to pioneering large scale energy initiatives. Through multi-disciplinary teams in the fields of science, engineering, materials, and behavioral science, VT-ARC develops creative solutions that draw from both academia and industry.

VT-ARC area of expertise

• Alternative energy source development including wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear and biomass
• Alternative fuel systems development including hydrogen fuel cells , transportation fuel cell systems and oxide fuel cells for power plant applications
• Traditional fuel optimization including coal-cleaning technology for the efficient and environmentally acceptable use of coal
• Energy infrastructure, including real-time, on-line detection of partial discharges in transformers, advanced electronic power conversion technologies, creation of new electric power system archetypes and implementation of distributed generation technologies
• Energy efficiency and conservation discovery and development, enabling dramatic improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of electric energy processing, fluid machinery, aircraft and other transportation components and processes, and green computing
• Energy resource management, inventory, monitoring, and innovation
• Environmental policy study and application, such as the enhancement and restoration of mined lands
• Energy harvesting, including motion capture to synthetic materials development for energy conversion efficiency

For further information on VT-ARC's energy expertise, please contact:

Bennett Teates
BTeates@vt-arc.org
540 443-8577 X 500