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Tracking Hurricane Earl's Impact on Energy

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A satellite image of Hurricane Earl Courtesy of NOAA.


While we don't yet know where Hurricane Earl will ultimately make landfall, we do know that hurricanes can have a serious impact on energy supplies and markets. Storms of this nature have the potential to not only cause electrical outages, but also affect offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refineries and other energy infrastructure.


Knowing how a storm might affect those resources is vital to any emergency preparation. That's why the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently launched a web page dedicated to providing upt to date information about Hurricane Earl from an energy perspective -- complete with an interactive map showing the location of various types of energy infrastructure that could potentially be affected by the storm.


You can find out more about what EIA is doing to help track energy disruptions on the Energy Blog.

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Geek-Up[09.03.10] -- Innovative Silicon Wafers, Real-Time Power Traders and Petascale & Exascale Supercomputers

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed a new, low-cost etching technique that can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer the size of a compact disk. These tiny holes make the silver-gray silicon almost pure black and able to absorb nearly all of the colors of light from the sun - a breakthrough that will likely lead to cheaper and more effective solar cells.
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Department of Energy Staff Ready for Hurricane Earl

As Category 4 Hurricane Earl heads towards the East Coast, Department of Energy emergency responders are in place and ready to go at the National Response Coordination Center in Washington, DC and FEMA's Regional Response Coordination Centers in Boston and New York City. The Department works closely with our Federal partners and the energy industry to provide technical expertise, assessing energy infrastructure impacted by the storm and facilitating recovery and restoration efforts.
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The U.S. and China - Advancing Clean Energy Research Through Cooperation

What two countries lead the world in energy consumption, energy production and greenhouse gas emissions? The United States and China. Can our two countries work together to help lead the world in a transition to clean energy? An announcement by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is an important step in that direction.
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Secretary Chu Announces U.S. Centers for U.S.-China Clean Energy Research

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that two consortia - one led by the University of Michigan and one led by the West Virginia University - will receive a total of $25 million over the next five years under the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC).
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USDA and DOE Partnership Seeks to Develop Better Plants for Bioenergy

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2010 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced research awards under a joint DOE-USDA program aimed at improving and accelerating genetic breeding programs to create plants better suited for bioenergy production.
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