Feb 29, 2016
Financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy to Oregon’s state energy office has helped the state support energy retrofits for several schools and allowed seven classrooms — previously left vacant due to a lack of heating — to open for...
Feb 26, 2016
The Recovery Act sparked America’s clean energy revolution. See the progress we’ve made since 2009 and what’s on the horizon.
Feb 26, 2016
The Energy Department supported wind turbine innovation with Pika Energy–developing a process that cut the cost of making a small turbine blade from $1000 to $50–and now features one of the company’s turbines in the lobby of the department’s...
Feb 25, 2016
When buying a solar power system, hardware is not the only expense. There are also “soft costs”: permits, financing, installation costs, and more. EERE’s SunShot Initiative is working to address those, so that solar power can be even more...
Feb 24, 2016
The White House and the Department of Energy kicked-off a new initiative, the Energy Materials Network, to accelerate innovation around the clean energy manufacturing industry’s most pressing materials challenges. This network has the potential to revolutionize whole...
