U.S., South Korea eye shale gas opportunities
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. and South Korean governments will explore possibilities of sharing knowledge from the shale natural gas sector, the U.S. Energy...
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
DOE nominee Moniz sails through committee, full Senate is next
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s nominee for Energy Secretary, in bipartisan 21-1 vote on Thursday.The...
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Report: Federal ‘clean coal’ project faces uncertain future
A congressional report concludes that a long-troubled, decade-old federal project to develop a coal-fired power plant that traps and stores carbon emissions may never come...
Friday, April 12th, 2013
DOE official: Focusing on Yucca prevents 'progress' on nuclear waste
A senior Energy Department (DOE) official shot down using Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a long-term storage site for nuclear waste Thursday, underscoring the difficulty...
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
DOE nominee Moniz open to reviewing natural-gas export study
President Obama’s pick to run the Energy Department (DOE) signaled Tuesday that he is open to reviewing a major study that concluded expanding natural-gas exports would...
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
DOE to award up to $266M to small modular nuclear reactor project
The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a new funding opportunity announcement for up to $266 million to help US industry design and certify innovative small modular...
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Obama to tap McCarthy to lead EPA, Moniz for Energy secretary
The picks come as the administration faces pressure from green groups to do more on climate change.
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Musk says Tesla will pay off its loans in half the time
At the ARPA-E summit, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, confidently declared that his company, which received a $465 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy, is...
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Sen. Wyden wants nuclear cleanup commitment from next Energy secretary
The Senate Energy Committee chairman said Tuesday that any Energy secretary nominee must agree to clean up high-level nuclear waste at a Washington facility to get his...
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
U.S. DOE rapped over $150 mln grant to LG Michigan battery factory
WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has been criticized by its own internal watchdog for poor oversight of millions of dollars in grants to a U.S....
Monday, February 4th, 2013
US Energy Dept hacked, says no classified data was compromised
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy's electronics network was attacked by hackers in mid-January but no classified data was compromised, the...
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Steven Chu stepping down as Obama’s Energy secretary
Chu oversaw expanded federal support for low-carbon energy and defended it against GOP attacks.
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Energy Secretary Chu said to plan departure from Cabinet
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who drew criticism from Republicans over his support for loans to Solyndra LLC before the solar-panel maker went bankrupt, will leave his...
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
DOE: at least 2,400B metric tons of US CO2 storage capacity in U.S.
The United States has at least 2,400 billion metric tons of possible carbon dioxide storage resource in saline formations, oil and gas reservoirs, and unmineable coal...
Monday, December 17th, 2012
Former ARPA-E chief heads to Google
Arun Majumdar, the former head of an Energy Department research and development program is heading to Google to lead its energy strategy.
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
SolarCity, Sungevity, SunRun probed for possible ‘misrepresentations’ in getting public money
Three of the country’s most prolific installers of residential solar panels are under federal investigation to determine if they inflated the cost of their work to...
Friday, December 14th, 2012
U.S. sees offshore wind energy by 2017
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Energy Department said it expected commercial operations for offshore wind power generation to begin near six states in less than...
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
GE hopes to make its cloth wind turbine idea fly
GE hopes to make wind turbines far cheaper, and open up new ways to design them, by ditching the stiff fiberglass blades it uses now in favor of turbine blades made out of...
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Long-awaited study says gas exports would boost US economy
A major study commissioned by the Energy Department (DOE) concludes that expanding natural-gas exports would be an economic win for the U.S., a finding that provides a...
Saturday, December 1st, 2012
Argonne battery innovation hub announced
Friday the Department of Energy established a new, $120 million center for battery research with an ambitious goal of making batteries for electric vehicles and electric...
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