energy
DOE has $39 billion in stimulus dollars and $100 billion in requests
The recent issue of Innnovation reports that the US Department of Energy has received applications for $100 billion worth of stimulus funds, against the $39 billion the agency has available to grant. The agency expects the intense competition for funds will ensure that only the best ideas will get funded. Most of the funding opportunities [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Stimulus Bill Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grants – June 25th Application Deadline
The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated $3.2 billion of stimulus funding for energy efficiency and conservation block grants (EECBGs). These block grants are available for states, counties,and cities as well as Indian tribes – but who’s to say those entities won’t be looking to partner with private sector organizations to take advantage of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Venture Capitalists Sought for Entrepreneur in Residence 2 Program
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an expansion of last year’s “entrepreneur in residence” (EIR) program. The DOE is seeking five venture capital firms to participate in this program, which is designed to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of advanced clean energy technologies from its national laboratories.
The program will place five more venture capital [...]
Auto Industry Loan to Hitch Ride on Year-End Funding Bill?
Funding for low-interest government loans for automakers will likely be attached to a year-end stopgap spending measure, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., said Wednesday.
The domestic auto industry is lobbying congressional leaders to jumpstart a $25 billion loan program authorized in last year’s energy law before the end of the month by appropriating the [...]
DOE Turns On Rooftop Solar System
Last week the U.S. Department of Energy turned on the solar electric photovoltaic (PV) system installed on the roof of the DOE’s Forrestal Building in Washington D.C. The 205-kilowatt system is supposed to generate approximately 200 megawatt hours of electricity per year, provide up to eight percent of the Forrestal complex’s energy during peak hours [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Expanded offshore drilling or no FY09 budget?
I’ve been on vacation visiting family – had expected to have time to keep up with blogging but — I was wrong! Finally took a day off of vacation to relax and blog
So – it’s been generally expected that essentially no budget bills (with the exception of defense) would make it through congress [...]
Can bi-partisan rank-and-filers push through an energy policy bill?
The Democrats and the Republicans in Congress butted one another to a standstill on energy policy, and left DC for the August break without agreeing on an Energy bill – despite some claims for weeks that it was one of the most important things needed for us, the public.
However two bi-partisan groups of rank-and-file members [...]
It’s “ITC”
Chairman Bingaman (D, NM), ranking member Domenici (R, NM), and Senator Sanders (D, VT) held a field hearing on the topic of concentrating solar power today in Albuquerque, NM.
There were six witnesses, from Public Service Company of NM (PNM), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Sandia National Laboratories, Abengoa Solar, Schott Solar, and Mesa del Sol. As [...]
Energy efficiency and renewable energy best practices
The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program offers a BestPractices site for industry in support of improving energy management practices. The site offers resources for corporate execs, plant managers, technical staff, and the public.
There’s a great deal of info. available from this site. For example, the “Resources” section provides the following information: Software Tools, Publications,Training, Databases [...]
