President Obama has committed to doubling America's investment in science - and to pursue transformative breakthroughs in technology that can help us meet our energy and climate challenges.  He has tasked Energy Secretary Steven Chu with developing a broad-based research strategy to harness America's innovation machine to make the discoveries we need.

As part of this strategy, the Department of Energy has launched three Energy Innovation Hubs.  Modeled in part after the Department's successful Bioenergy Research Centers, the Hubs will help advance highly promising areas of energy science and engineering from the early stage of research to the point where the technology can be handed off to the private sector.  In other words, this work will ultimately lead to new clean energy solutions and new jobs for America's families.

Each Hub will foster unique, cross-disciplinary collaborations by bringing together leading scientists to focus on a high priority technology. The Hubs will tackle three of the most important energy challenges we face:

1. How can we derive fuels directly from sunlight in an efficient and economical way?
2. How can we design, construct and retrofit commercial and residential buildings that are vastly more energy efficient than today's buildings?
3. How can we use modeling and simulation technologies to make significant leaps forward in nuclear reactor design and engineering?

This website explains the Hubs concept in more detail. Click the tabs on the left-hand column to find more information about the Hubs, the timeline for their work, and other useful information.  Please check back frequently as additional information is added.

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