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Best of 2014: Our Year in Review
We’ve been busy this year! In 2014 the Energy Department advanced clean energy technologies, welcomed a new Deputy Secretary, promoted STEM careers and much more. 2014 has been a year of investments,...
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Mobilizing $4 Billion In Private-Sector Support For Clean Energy Innovation
This blog is cross-posted on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog. Ingenuity is one of our country’s greatest assets. America’s entrepreneurs and innovators have a legacy of...
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Energy Department Releases Second Quadrennial Technology Review
Research Opportunities Highlighted in Report Lay Out Options for America’s Clean Energy Future WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Energy Department released its second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR),...
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DOE Announces $1B Loan Guarantee Fund For Distributed Energy Projects
On August 24, 2015, President Obama announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $1 billion in additional loan guarantee authority to support innovative distributed energy projects...
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The Current State Of Energy Technology
This week, the newest iPhones were released to the world. For most of us, it is a reminder that in an age of rapid technological leaps, it can be hard to keep up with the latest advances. When it comes...
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Energy News Roundup: States Turn To Renewables, Duke Begins Settlement &...
State Governments have revealed renewable energy’s potential may be understated as utilities look at batteries and new pricing strategies to prevent overloads from wind and solar power. [WSJ] Duke...
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California Utilities Plan For A Cleaner Electric Grid
California’s “big three” utilities are taking important steps toward achieving a clean energy future – one in which we will better utilize renewable sources of energy, give customers more choice and...
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A Stealth Tool To Modernize The Electric Grid
Electricity regulators, clean energy innovators, and rappers have all lamented poor communication. And some have pushed for cleaner, cheaper, more reliable solutions for meeting our energy needs. This...
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3 Ways Our Manufacturing Institutes Are Changing The Clean Energy Game
With hundreds of thousands of jobs in energy, transportation and other sectors added to the economy since 2010, manufacturing is making a big comeback in America. This upward trend is expected to...
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Secretary of Energy Moniz Cuts Ribbon, Kicks Off Solar Decathlon 2015
COLLEGIATE TEAMS SHOWCASE AFFORDABLE, ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOUSES IN GLOBAL COMPETITION AT ORANGE COUNTY GREAT PARK IN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA IRVINE, CA – Collegiate teams involving hundreds of students from...
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Citibank: How Investments In Clean Energy Can Save Trillions
A number to remember: $44 trillion. It’s what Citibank estimates that climate change will cost the global economy by 2060 unless we take decisive steps to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. To put the...
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24M Signs Memorandum Of Understanding To Supply Its Breakthrough Semisolid...
24M and NEC Also Collaborating on Next-generation Energy Storage Systems Using 24M’s Cells CAMBRIDGE and WESTBOROUGH, Mass., October 13, 2015— 24M and NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. today announced the...
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Solect Energy And IGS Solar Offer No-Cost Solar Energy Systems To Businesses...
Companies partner to finance and install commercial solar energy systems for businesses, non-profits, and schools across the state Hopkinton, MA – October 14, 2015– Solect Energy, a leading commercial...
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The Future Of Energy Storage Is BYOB
Before the U.S. electric grid became centralized under utilities and independent system operators, it consisted of unorganized and unconnected generators. As distributed energy resources (DERs) – such...
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Solar And Wind Catch Up With Coal, Natural Gas Across The Globe
BNEF projects that solar will rival natural gas in India, China and Europe by 2020. A recent meta-review by the Rocky Mountain Institute found that the cost of utility-scale solar in some regions of...
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Energy News Roundup: Apple’s China Pollution, Oil Rises & Enel’s Green Push
Apple is cleaning up its manufacturing operations in China to reduce the air pollution caused by the factories that have assembled hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. [ABC] Oil prices rose above...
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Energy News Roundup: Clean Energy Investment Rising, Whitman Speaks Out On...
Clean energy investment rose 25% in the U.S. during the third quarter; total investment surged to $13.4 billion. [Forbes] In an exclusive interview, former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman said the...
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Energy News Roundup: Germany’s Nuclear Divestment, GE-Alstom Merger Close &...
Germany’s planned nuclear switch-off is driving a surge in clean energy investment. [The Guardian] General Electric announced Monday that it had finalised a deal to acquire the energy assets of...
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The Dominos Are Falling: Conservative Texas Towns Embrace Renewables’ Low Prices
Over the next four years, Texas’ energy landscape will change dramatically. For example, throughout the 630-mile, nine-hour drive from Denton, Texas to El Paso, rolling hills will dominate the horizon...
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Renewable Energy Update – November 2015
Recent figures reveal that utility-scale renewable energy projects accounted for more than 60 percent of new energy capacity installed in the U.S. throughout the first three quarters of 2015.
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