The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $43 million in selected projects Tuesday to support the development of transformational technologies essential for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions across industrial subsectors. With 16 projects selected as part of a $38 million funding opportunity on cross-sector technologies and five projects selected in partnership […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the 2022 Better Plants Progress Update. The report highlights the leadership of more than 270 manufacturers and water utilities who partner with DOE to increase energy and water efficiency. Collectively, these partners have saved $10.6 billion in energy costs, 2.2 quadrillion British thermal units (Btus) of energy, and […]
The White House – On Friday, the Biden-Harris Administration launched coordinated actions to develop new floating offshore wind platforms, an emerging clean energy technology that will help the United States lead on offshore wind. In tandem with President Biden’s economic and clean energy agenda, these actions will create good-paying jobs, lower energy costs for families, […]
Just a few years ago, a chorus of hee-haws would be expected to erupt whenever the topic turned to the hydrogen economy of the sparkling green future. Well, money talks. The US Department of Energy has been plowing research dollars into hydrogen and fuel cell technology, and the latest development is all about leveraging wind […]
Economic justice advocates are taking note that rooftop solar power deployment in the US has a taken on a racial tinge, with significantly more penetration in predominantly white neighborhoods. That’s a climate action issue as well, because it reveals that US policy makers are missing an important opportunity for accelerating solar adoption. By Tina Casey […]
The idea of floating solar panels out on water seems to make sense, right? Well, maybe. Waterborne PV adds another wrinkle to the task of maintaining and repairing solar panels. Finding suitable bodies of water is a whole ‘nother can of worms. Nevertheless, other countries are shaking the floating solar panel tree and now the […]
A decade ago, less than 30,000 unique commercial and residential solar projects dotted the California landscape. Today, that number has grown close to 750,000 projects, a whopping amount serving a greater area and share of California’s electricity demand than ever before. Marie Donahue Institute for Local Self-Reliance What is even more remarkable about this statewide […]
The Department of Energy recently announced that it will give the University of Utah up to $140 million in funding for geothermal research and development over the next five years. The Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal DOE fundingEnergy (FORGE) field laboratory will be the facility for the work, which will be located near Milford, […]
[social_buttons] I just had an opportunity to attend a conference sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) about how the fast-moving new science of “Genomics” is being used to help understand the biological effects of climate change and how genomics is being used in the effort to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. At this […]
On an unusually warm and sunny April Sunday, Portland Mayor Sam Adams accepted a Solar America Cities Award from the Department of Energy and pledged to greatly expand the amount of solar power in the city. Portland was one of 25 cities to have earned the Solar City award in 2007-8 which included a matching grant of $200,000 to be used for outreach to consumers about the viability of solar in the often cloudy Northwest, and to work with private companies to produce and sell solar panels.
The loan guarantee of $535 million will go to Solyndra Inc., which will expand its production of photovoltaic systems in Fremont, Calif. The money will cover 75-percent of the project costs but will yield up to 15 gigawatts of electricity and save some 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that it plans to take advantage of the recent decline in crude oil prices, and has issued a solicitation to purchase approximately 12 million barrels of crude oil for the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to replenish supplies sold following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
A new collaboration between NASA and the DOE called the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) will hopefully clarify the properties of properties of dark energy, fundamentally advancing physics and astronomy.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) are shacking up in hopes to better develop and commercialize biofuels
President Bush’s recent designation, and subsequent nomination, of F. Chase Hutto III as acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Domestic Policy of the Department of Energy (DOE) is starting to raise some eyebrows