WASHINGTON. As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to creating clean energy jobs and lowering energy bills for U.S. businesses, the Department announced that Johnson Controls, Macy’s and Sprint are joining the Better Buildings Challenge. Launched by President Obama in 2011, the Better Buildings Challenge brings together corporations, universities, municipalities and other national leaders to [...]
Mar 24 2013 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which is working to make solar energy competitive with other forms of energy without subsidy by the end of the decade, the Energy Department today announced the start of a new competition to make it faster, easier, and cheaper to install rooftop solar energy systems. [...]
The expansion celebrated today adds to the manufacturing capabilities to the plant, providing capacity to support over 10 gigawatts of photovoltaic module production annually
As part of the Obama Administration’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, today U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced over $12 million to speed solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace through the Energy Department’s SunShot Incubator program. The funding will accelerate American innovation in solar energy and manufacturing by supporting [...]
Feb 9 2012 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the one year anniversary of the Obama Administration’s Startup America Initiative, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) is kicking off a second year of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator,†a program that allows startup companies to license groundbreaking technologies developed by DOE’s 17 national [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today invited Americans to vote online for the most innovative and promising start-up companies in the “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator†challenge. Voting will end at 8:59 a.m. EST. on Monday, February 6, and the top start-up companies out of the 14 participating – based on [...]
Who Will Be America’s Next Top Energy Innovator? Last week marked the deadline for submissions to the “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” challenge, and the U.S. Department of Energy today announced that it will give Americans the chance to vote for the most innovative and promising technologies supported by the program. The Department also announced [...]
Dec 19 2011 | Posted in
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Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now America’s second largest source of imports. Of the United States’ total crude oil imports averaging 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), Mexico is the second largest source of imports, at [...]
Dec 7 2011 | Posted in
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Washington, D.C. – As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, today Energy Secretary Steven Chu was joined by Lynn Jurich, the president and co-founder of the solar power company SunRun, and Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to announce $12 million in funding for the awardees of the Rooftop Solar Challenge. The Challenge [...]
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced up to $7 million to reduce the non-hardware costs of residential and commercial solar energy installations. Made available through the SunShot Incubator Program, this funding will support the development of tools and approaches that reduce non-hardware, or “soft” [...]
As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a $60 million investment over 3 years for applied scientific research to advance cutting-edge Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies. CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight to produce heat, which can then be used to produce electricity. [...]
Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week announced more than $145 million for projects to help shape the next generation of solar energy technologies and ensure that the United States remains a leader in this global market. Sixty-nine projects in 24 states will accelerate research and development to increase efficiency, lower costs, and advance cutting-edge technologies. Funded [...]
Competition Trains the Next Generation of Clean Energy Engineers and Designers Washington, D.C. – Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department of Energy is considering offers for a new site for Solar Decathlon 2013. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a competition that challenges collegiate students from across the globe to [...]
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