Energy Department tightens reins on Ill. stimulus money
USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The Energy Department has agreed to increase oversight of a $5 billion weatherization program after department investigators ...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The Energy Department has agreed to increase oversight of a $5 billion weatherization program after department investigators ...
The Boston Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday at a presentation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Club a new energy fellowship program for researchers.
EarthTechling (Free subscription) | yesterday
LG Electronics and the Department of Energy are preparing to face off in court over plans by the government agency to remove from the Energy Star program some LG refrigerators.
Newswise (Free subscription) | yesterday
Titanium dioxide can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells. Coated particle fuel fabricated at ORNL, in cooperation with INL, General Atomics, and the Babcock & Wilcox Company, has set a world record for advanced high temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel. Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental...
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is launching Open Energy Information (www.openEI.org) - a new open-source web platform that will make DOE resources and open energy data widely available to the public.
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
The U.S. Department of Energy continues to churn out important announcements — today establishing a fellowship program via its ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy) initiative . This news follows the Department’s distribution of $100 million in stimulus grants to experimental fuel, battery and carbon capture projects yesterday. The fellowship...
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Cambridge, MA - The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) announced today the creation of the ARPA-E Fellows Program at an event with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's students.
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Energy stocks traded slightly lower in early action on Wednesday ahead of the weekly petroleum inventory update from the U.S. Department of Energy. The broad market fell slightly, providing a drag, while crude prices traded below $73 a barrel. The NYSE Arca Oil Index dipped fractionally to 1,041. The NYSE Arca Natural Gas Index fell about 0.1% to 492. The Philadelphia...
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Washington, DC - Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the offer of a $245 million conditional loan guarantee to Red River Environmental Products, LLC to build an activated carbon (AC) manufacturing facility near Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
( DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ) Titanium dioxide can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells. Coated particle fuel fabricated at ORNL, in cooperation with INL, General Atomics, and the Babcock & Wilcox Company, has set a world record for advanced high temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel. Electronic devices of the...
EE Times (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is looking for a few high voltage power engineers and scientists for its new R&D arm--the Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy—which announced it is taking nominations for a new fellows program. Presented By: NEC Ads by Pheedo
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--People Power Company, an energy efficiency company providing residential monitoring and control systems, won support from the federal government last month in the form of a Small Business Innovation Research-Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR-STTR) grant announced by the Department of Energy on November 24, 2009. Link to grant winners One of six...
Official google.org Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Last Monday, we hosted experts from the U.S. Department of Energy, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Nth Power and Google for a discussion on clean energy innovation in our San Francisco office. The panelists focused on the important role innovation plays in seizing the economic benefits of developing and deploying cost-effective low carbon technologies. We were honored to have Under...
Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
LG Electronics believes it is being unfairly singled out after the Department of Energy required LG to remove the Energy Star label from some of its refrigerator-freezers starting Jan. 2. As a result, LG filed a complaint against the department in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, according to news reports. LG says [...]
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Washington, DC - The Department of Energy announced today that as part of the expanded enforcement efforts under the ENERGY STAR program, effective January 2, 2010, certain LG French-door refrigerator-freezers are banned from using the ENERGY STAR label that helps consumers identify energy efficient products that will reduce their energy use and save them money.