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DOE Launches $100 Electric Submeter Challenge
The Department of Energy's Building Technologies Program launches its latest challenge on Wednesday: an initiative to develop a $100 wireless submeter. The hope is that submeters can help building owners and tenants better understand energy use and help solve the split incentive issue.
Date: 05/06/2013
Type: Article
Technologies: Control Systems, HVAC, Utilities
Tags: Building Technologies Program, challenge, department of energy, DOE, power meters, submeter, wireless
SunShot Program: Your Tax Dollars at Work Growing Solar
DOE’s SunShot Initiative is subsidizing research so it can stop subsidizing solar energy generation. DOE calls SunShot “the Apollo Mission of our time.”
Date: 04/23/2012
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: concentrating solar power, department of energy, DOE, funding, photovoltaics, research, solar, SunShot Initiative
DOE Backs Thin Flexible Solar Panels
Loans from the Department of Energy are leading to advances in flexible solar cell technology, as well as creating new jobs.
Date: 08/22/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: DOE, flexible solar cell
LED droop
Researchers Say They've Solved the Mystery of LED Lighting "Droop"
Institute faculty members' research featured on DOE energy blog.
Date: 05/16/2011
Type: Blog
Technologies: Lighting & Displays
Tags: DOE, Gallium Nitride, LED lighting, lighting efficiency, nitride, semiconductors
Solar panels
Update: Solar Junction Drives CPV Efficiency Even Higher
Just a month after making an announcement about a 40.9 percent efficiency multi-junction production cell, Solar Junction has announced an NREL-validated efficiency value of 41.4 percent on a production cell.
Date: 02/15/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: concentrating photovoltaics, concentrating solar, DOE, renewables, solar efficiency
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What You Need to Know About Obama’s Budget & Energy
President Obama's proposed budget calls for boosting funding to the Department of Energy by nearly 12 percent. The spending plan focuses on research and deployment of renewable energy, electric cars, biofuel, energy efficiency and nuclear technologies.
Date: 02/14/2011
Type: Blog
Technologies: Economic Impact, Energy Efficiency Policy
Tags: ARPA-E, battery research, department of energy, DOE, electric cars, energy efficiency policy, energy policy, green buildings, incentives, research funding
Prototype of high-efficiency rooftop air conditioning unit
DOE Designs Energy-Saving AC Units
The Department of Energy says it has developed a new design for rooftop air conditioning units that would reduce energy consumption by 50 to 60 percent compared to current models.
Date: 02/09/2011
Type: Blog
Technologies: Buildings, HVAC
Tags: cooling systems, department of energy, DOE, energy consumption, energy efficiency policy, green buildings, high-efficiency, HVAC
Washington, DC
Dim Prospects for Energy R&D Funding
Despite urgent calls from the White House and members of Congress this year about the need for more energy R&D, government funding for energy research is expected to stagnate in 2011 and possibly even decrease in 2012.
Date: 12/09/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: General Information, Energy Efficiency Policy
Tags: ARPA-E, Congress, DOE, energy research, government funding, research funding
DOE seal
Sharing Super Computing for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy has rolled out a program to donate billions of supercomputing hours to projects that are working on energy innovation, including a GE effort to design more energy-efficient propulsion systems.
Date: 12/01/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Computing and Networks, General Information
Tags: computing, DOE, energy innovation, supercomputers
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DOE Projects Support Clean Energy Goals
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it has completed nearly 120 technical assistance projects at 16 federal agencies, helping the federal government to meet its energy efficiency and renewable energy goals and implement leading-edge clean energy technologies.
Date: 10/26/2010
Type: News
Technologies: General Information, Energy Efficiency Policy
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, DOE, energy policy, Federal Energy Management Program

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