DOE Awards $36M to Six Projects for Drop-in Fuels, Chemicals
June 15, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(Biofuels Digest, June 13, 2011) In Washington, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects that will advance the technology improvements and process integration needed to produce drop-in advanced biofuels and other valuable bio-based chemicals. The projects aim to improve the economics and efficiency of biological and chemical processes that convert non-food biomass feedstocks into replacements for petroleum-based feedstocks, products, and fuels. Click here to read more…
Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $15 Million for Next Generation Energy-Efficient Lighting
June 8, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(EERE, June 07, 2011) Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced nearly $15 million to support eight new research and development projects that will accelerate the development and deployment of high-efficiency solid-state lighting technologies like LEDs and OLEDs. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have the potential to be ten times more energy-efficient than conventional incandescent lighting and can last up to 25 times as long. Click here to read more…
Eskom Launches ‘Open Innovation’ Pilot to Tackle Key Problems
June 1, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(Sustainable Energy Resource/South Africa, May 31, 2011) By Terence Creamer Power utility Eskom has initiated an ‘open innovation’ pilot project in an effort to assess whether some of its most vexing challenges – from safety, to water and demand management – might be able to be solved through ideas generated with support of companies and individuals outside of the State-owned utility. The programme is being run in conjunction with the Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (Riis), of Pretoria, and global open-innovation facilitator NineSigma, which will bring its network of two-million international problem solvers to bear on the project. Eskom is paying R600 000 for the support of the two partners. Click here to read more…
DoD Contracts Over $5 Million – June 2011
May 31, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
No. 482-11 — June 07, 2011
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Vitol, Inc.*, Houston, Texas, was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $114,438,946 for aviation turbine fuel. Other location of performance is Hallen, United Kingdom. Using service is Defense Logistics Agency Energy. The date of performance completion is July 30, 2012. Read more
U.S. Department of Energy Announces Expanded Partnership with Industry to Advance Next-Generation Automotive Technologies
May 25, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(EERE News, May 19, 2011) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu today announced U.S. DRIVE, a cooperative partnership with industry to accelerate the development of clean, advanced, energy-efficient technologies for cars and light trucks and the infrastructure needed to support their widespread use. This partnership is part of DOE’s broad strategy to expand the availability of advanced vehicles to American families to help protect them from future spikes in gas prices and reduce our nation’s reliance on imported oil. Click here to read more…
NREL and Partners to Compare High-Efficiency Solar Cells from Three Nations at Sites in Colorado and Yokohama, Japan
May 18, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(NREL, April 4, 2011) Golden, Colo. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with major international industrial technology and solar research organizations to test how solar cells from three manufacturers perform in two geographic locations with different lighting conditions. A primary goal of the study is to assess how panels from three different manufacturers – from the United States, Japan and Germany – perform under different average lighting conditions characteristic of the study’s test sites in Aurora, Colo., and Okayama, Japan. Click here to read more…DOE Offers 30MW HCPV Project $90.6MM Conditional Commitment
May 11, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(May 10, 2011, Penn Energy) US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix of Alamosa, LLC. The loan guarantee will support the construction of the Alamosa Solar Generating Project, a 30 megawatt (MW) net capacity High Concentration Solar Photovoltaic (HCPV) generation project located in south-central Colorado near the city of Alamosa. Cogentrix estimates the project will create about 75 construction jobs and 10 operations jobs. The project will source over 80 percent of its components from the US. Click here to read more…DoD Contracts Over $5 Million – May 2011
May 10, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
No. 415-11 — May 17, 2011
AIR FORCE
Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $49,483,339 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for retrofit installations, including retrofits associated with the Reliability and Maintainability Maturation Program, and Structural Retrofit Program Phase II, for aircraft scheduled to be inducted during the second and third quarters of calendar year 2011 at the Palmdale Depot facility, as well as contractor support for depot throughput at both the Ogden and Palmdale depot facilities for the second and third quarters of calendar year 2011. Work will be performed at Marietta, Ga.; Read more
Secretary Chu Highlights Completion of the Department of Energy’s First Recovery Act-Funded Hydropower Project
May 4, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(EERE, April 21, 2011) U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu issued the following statement on the completion and startup today of the Abiquiu Hydropower Project in New Mexico – the first hydropower project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be completed nationwide. ”Today marks a major milestone in securing America’s clean energy future as we celebrate the completion of the Department of Energy’s first major Recovery Act-funded water power project. By increasing renewable energy output at existing hydropower facilities, we can create clean energy jobs, bolster our nation’s economic competitiveness, and contribute to America’s diverse energy portfolio,” said Secretary Chu. ”The Abiquiu Low-Flow Turbine Hydropower Project highlights the clean energy potential and local economic benefits that come with the environmentally responsible use of our rivers.” Click here to read more…
Lung Cancer Alliance Announces Additional $12.8 Million In Federal Research Funding For Lung Cancer
April 27, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
(U.S. Politics Today, April 27, 2011) Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) announced that its efforts to secure increased federal research funding for lung cancer achieved another victory as an additional $12.8 million was included in the Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) which was part of the FY2011 budget compromise approved by Congress. The President is expected to sign it into law tonight. Click here to read more…
