Department of Energy (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 program, which...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 program,...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The U.S. Department of Energy has been placing a lot of emphasis on bold, out-of-the-box plays when it comes to cleantech — an attitude that led to the creation of ARPA-E, its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. At the end of October, it gave $151 million in grants to 37 high-risk projects aimed at combating global warming. Today, it announced $100 million more under the...
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the issue of a final rule amending the Department of Energy's regulations for its Loan Guarantee Program.
GSA Technology Council (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The United States has an opportunity to move the world into a new industrial revolution. And that revolution must ensure the country’s future prosperity, the U.S. secretary of energy said Monday. Speaking at a symposium hosted by the Clemson University Restoration Institute at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), energy secretary...
Money & Company (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Sapphire Energy Inc., a San Diego biofuels company that has developed an algae-based fuel used experimentally to power airplanes and drive a car cross country, has been selected to participate in a $564-million biorefinery project, the U.S. Energy and Agriculture...
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Washington, DC - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale.
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate the construction and operation of pilot, demonstration, and commercial scale facilities.
Department of Energy (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the launch of the Save Energy Now LEADER Program, which will provide technical assistance and resources to companies that pledge significant improvements in industrial energy efficiency.
Sierra Club Compass (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Later today at the White House is a Clean Energy Forum, several of our own Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) folks will be there as part of the Energy Action Coalition. From our SSCers' blog post over on Climate Crossroads: On...
Live Earth (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Today the Obama Administration is holding its first-ever Youth Clean Energy Forum with youth leaders from around the country. The event will be hosted at the White House on Wednesday from 4 - 7pm EST, and will also be webcast to young people across the country at here . Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, EPA Administrator Lisa P....
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Get into the Game. That’s the challenge to biofuels producers and researchers that missed out on the recent $564 million round of DOE grants for pilot and demonstration facilities. To that end, three stories in the Digest will assist. • For projects past the research stage and ready for commercialization, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the issue of [...] Get Into...
Center for Environment, Commerce & (Free subscription) | yesterday
... long-term nuclear waste management alternative. DEVELOPMENTS: - On March 1, President Obama's new energy secretary, Steven Chu, announced intentions to scrap Yucca Mountain in favor of convening a panel of experts to explore other options. - In November, the SRS Community Reuse Organization released a paper calling for more conversation about what might happen next, and whether...
Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
"Multibillion-dollar clean coal projects in West Virginia, Texas and Alabama are getting $979 million in federal stimulus funding, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday.The money will go toward retrofitting existing coal-fired power plants owned by American Electric Power, Southern Co. and Summit Texas Clean Energy to capture and store carbon dioxide ..." "...
