Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 19:35:14 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently introduced the Clean Fuels & Products Shot, an initiative focused on substantially decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) originating from carbon-based fuels and products essential to daily life. As the seventh DOE Energy Earthshot, this project aims to lower carbon emissions from the fuel and chemical industry by […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:33 +0000
The DOE SolSmart program has been a major success. Now it is being expanded to double the number of communities it serves.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:05:19 +0000
The US Department of Energy has proposed new efficiency standards for household appliances and wind turbine manufacturing.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:24:37 +0000
If you’re a regular around here, you probably know that we prefer renewable electricity for powering vehicles. This usually involves battery storage, though. While battery technology has gotten to the point where it’s viable to do things like electric cars, boats, trucks, and even some planes, the relatively low energy density of batteries will be […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:55:13 +0000
A $96 million government funding opportunity is now available to assist with the decarbonization of the American transportation industry. The cash will be used to enhance electric vehicle charging availability, develop alternative-fueled non-road vehicles that are more efficient and less expensive, and develop electric drive components and materials to maximize EV efficiency and affordability. “To […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:10:13 +0000
The Energy Department is pursuing a mobility future populated by electric vehicles, despite the recently impeached President’s support for fossil fuel
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:05:13 +0000
Much to the dismay of fossil fuel stakeholders, the Trump administration launches a major new effort to dominate the global energy storage market — wait, what
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:14:33 +0000
A big part of Livingston and Conroy’s pitch to the DoE was to leverage soon-to-be-commercialized oscillating disk technology in a mostly continuous tunneling model. This would entail not only having the oscillating disk cutter, but also automated ceiling bolting and shotcreting for tunnel stabilization
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:07:36 +0000
Pumped storage hydro has far more resource potential than required for a fully decarbonized grid and it’s cheap per megawatt-hour (MWh) of storage. The downside is that it’s slow to build, capital intensive, and heavily regulated right now in the United States. The Department of Energy FAST program aims to change that