Department of energy

Combined Heat And Power Cogeneration Can Ensure Consistency And Save Energy

In fact, CHP is already widely deployed in the U.S. food and beverage industry. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the industry’s plants current…

Offshore Wind Power

US Has Only One Offshore Wind Farm, But Future Market $70 Billion

According to the Department of Energy, offshore wind has the potential to generate more than 2,000 GW of capacity per year, nearly double the nation's current e…

Reports: Number 10 Planning to Revive Department of Energy and Climate Change

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning sweeping Whitehall reforms, including the reinstatement of a Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), as he seek…

Coal Mining Fades and So Do Jobs

The closing of coal fired-generators in Texas and other states as coal has become an increasingly expensive source of power has resulted in job losses in coal m…

New Initiative Positions Texas as Geothermal Energy Leader

With a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Cockrell School of Engineering is launching a unique initiative that aims to make The University…

CCS

The Economics And Technology Behind Trapping Carbon Dioxide

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to partner with the University of Wyoming to accelerate research on carbon capture technology at two of the state’s coal-fi…

U.S. DOE Awards $7m in Funding for Work on Reducing Geothermal Drilling Cost

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the recipients of $7 million funding to help decrease the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field developme…

Market Analysis

DOE: All-Electric Vehicles Have the Lowest Estimated Average Annual Fuel Cost of All Light-Duty Vehicles

The estimated annual fuel costs for model year (MY) 2019 all-electric light-duty vehicles are the lowest of all the different vehicle technologies, ranging from…

Nuclear Fuel

US Legislature Considers Waste Management Reforms

Draft legislation to update the US Department of Energy's (DOE) ability to manage nuclear waste - passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday.

DOE Plans to Weaken Energy Efficiency Standards for Quick Dishwahers

The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing forward with plans to allow faster-cleaning dishwashers to duck current energy efficiency standards, a move critics sa…

US DOE Issues Wave Energy Challenge

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced developments in two new prizes: Waves to Water, which challenges innovators to desalinate water using the power of o…

CCS

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $43 Million to Develop Carbon Capture and Storage Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon capture and sto…

PowerGrid Technology

How the DOE Plans to Modernize the Grid in the Near Term

Twenty-three projects chosen by the Department of Energy (DOE) in response to its 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call provide a broad look at the critical issues t…

Biofuel Producers Made Significant Gains in Both Energy Efficiency And Water Conservation

The nation’s biofuel producers have made significant gains in both energy efficiency and water conservation in recent years, according to a report released by …

Nuclear Policy

Philippines Progresses with Plan for Nuclear Energy

The Philippines' Department of Energy (DOE) today received the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) report on Phase 1 of its Integrated Nuclear Infrast…