PIPESTEM, W.Va. – Players at the Pipestem State Park golf courses this spring will notice new course improvements and improved viewing of the area’s natural wonders. One of the most noticeable involves the removal of some trees that were excessively shielding and shading...
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Families and friends will find a nice variety of special programs and evening entertainment at North Bend State Park this summer. “The lineup is free to attend, open to the public, sometimes educational, and most of all, fun,” according to Ken Zebo, activities...
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A family in Cabell County not only has a new home to call their own, they also are saving hundreds of dollars each month in utility costs—thanks to the local Habitat for Humanity’s plan to make each of its homes energy-efficient.
The latest home, a four-bedroom, two-bath tucked on a hillside in...
Learn MoreWhile coal is and will continue to be the principal energy resource for making electricity in West Virginia, wind energy is also becoming a player as well. West Virginia is home to four wind farms: the 66 MW Wind Energy Center in Tucker County, the 264 MW NedPower project in Grant County and the 100...
Learn MoreBudget Travel’s America’s Coolest Small Towns competition ended at 1pm today, and Lewisburg finished with the most votes*.
After 2 ½ months of online voting, and an exciting competition with second-place Astoria, Oregon, Lewisburg garnered more votes than any competitor in the contest’s history....
Learn MoreInstead of the three R’s, today’s students learn the three W’s: wind, water and warming. They’re discovering how to apply energy knowledge at home and for careers they will pursue in the future. Learning about energy in a real hands-on way, they roll up their sleeves and get dirty, oily, wet, ...
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Researchers have uncovered the largest geothermal hot spot in the eastern United States. According to a unique collaboration between Google and academic geologists, West Virginia sits atop several hot patches of Earth, some as warm as 200˚C and as shallow as 5 kilometers. If engineers are able to...
Learn MoreCould clean, reliable, baseload geothermal energy be produced in the Pioneer State?
The SMU Geothermal Laboratory, led by Principal Investigator Dr. David Blackwell, has discovered unexpectedly high temperatures beneath West Virginia capable of supporting geothermal energy production. As a result,...
Learn MoreDALLAS (SMU) — New research produced by Southern Methodist University’s Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, suggests that the temperature of the Earth beneath the state of West Virginia is significantly higher than previously estimated and capable of supporting commercial...
Learn MoreA group of West Virginia University students are paving the way to a greener future through their participation in EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, a three-year collegiate advanced vehicle technology engineering competition.
The competition challenges college students to explore alternative fuel...
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