Department of Energy News

While making energy-efficient improvements to the home may qualify homeowners for tax credits, there is a way to cut energy costs on a smaller scale that will eventually be mandatory.

Environmental spending The energy secretary continues to show his frustration THE economy is wobbly, oil prices are rising and voters have climate change on their minds.

Insulating paints should merely be the icing on the cake of an otherwise well-conceived plan to cut heating and cooling costs, and not be used in place of traditional bulk insulation.

The state of Connecticut is prepared to pay more than $11 million to help a Stonington battery maker power electric cars.

Science-oriented conglomerate DuPont has landed a $9 million partnership with the Department of Energy to conduct research into consumer-facing solar goods and components.

A Massachusetts company says the federal government has approved a $43 million loan guarantee to help finance a 20-megawatt energy storage system for New York's electrical grid.

PRESS Secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr. disclosed yesterday that the Department of Public Worksa Energy Office will receive funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or the federal stimulus law.

The proposed hydrogen energy plant in the South County received a major shot in the arm Wednesday, after it was awarded millions of dollars in stimulus funding.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 's Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center received another spark last week to power its research in marine energy in the form of a direct appropriation from the federal government.

President Barack Obama and his administration said today household and commercial lamps and lighting will face new rules to save energy and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Lenovo announced today that more than 25 of its Think-branded business and Idea-branded consumer PCs meet the new ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 Specification for Computers, which goes into effect on July 1, 2009.

The U.S. Department of Energy has approved 16 State Energy Program spending plans authorized as part of the federal economic stimulus package signed into law in February.

A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly.

At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b . The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark .

U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner announced Monday that the Department of Energy has released $28 million to support several programs aimed at spurring investment in residential, commercial and industrial energy efficiency, as well as renewable energy projects.

Chemical company to also provide carbon dioxide source for new Texas biorefinery, pending funding from a US DOE grant.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Just two weeks after the federal government revived plans to build the FutureGen power plant in eastern Illinois, two of the experimental coal plant's financial backers said they are withdrawing.

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced that the Department of Energy is soliciting applications for $3.9 billion in grants to support efforts to modernize the electric grid, allowing for greater integration of renewable energy sources while increasing the reliability, efficiency and security of the nation's transmission and ...

Federal stimulus funds supporting electric vehicles: - $1.5 billion in grants offered by the U.S. Department of Energy to U.S.-based manufacturers to produce advanced batteries and their components - $500 million in grants offered by the U.S. Department of Energy to U.S.-based manufacturers to produce other components needed for electric cars, such ...

It has not been a quiet year for Indianapolis-based EnerDel, the li-ion battery subsidiary of Ener1 .