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Energy Innovation In Action blogs aim to share the positive impact the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) has on the American people, businesses, industry partners, universities, research labs, and other entities to increase the use and effectiveness of affordable renewable energy, transportation, and energy efficiency technologies. Learn about projects and successes from CMEI, as well as the people behind the work.
You can also view an interactive map of CMEI Success Stories.
The addition of a record-setting 14.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy onto the grid made 2016 a historic year for solar, with a total of more than 42 GW now connected to our country’s electricity infrastructure. A new National Museum of American Histo...
New ideas come from a diverse way of seeing things. Whether it’s getting more students involved in Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematic...
The solar industry is growing fast. Despite this rapid growth, solar energy remains inaccessible to nearly half of American households and business...
A project funded by the Energy Department’s Bioenergy Technologies Office is working to show how perennial plants grown for bioenergy could be integra
Thanks to a SunShot collaboration at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in December 2015 Hawaiian Electric anno...
This may come as a surprise to most people: utilities don’t have real-time information about their customers’ electricity usage. When someone adds solar to their home or business, all the utility can see is that the customer’s electricity usage d...
With the help of the SunShot Initiative, Sustainable CUNY began work on the Smart Distributed Generation (DG) Hub-Resilient Solar Project, a roadma...
Winter is here and many parts of the country have already seen snow. Although at first blush it may seem that solar power is ideal for the summer, solar panels actually produce useful power throughout all four seasons — including when they're covered...
EERE Success Story—Double-Win “Algal Turf Scrubbers” Help to Clean Up Baltimore Harbor and Fuel Cars
Algae absorb nutrients and produce oxygen—ecosystem services that are vital to the health of impaired water bodies like the Chesapeake Bay and Gu...
Lighting makes up nearly 10% of the energy costs in our homes. But how many of us actually flip off that switch when leaving the room? Tien Nguyen ...