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Two technologies developed by researchers at the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have earned 2009 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC).

A $13 million cooperative effort with the Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) over the past seven years has resulted in the successful demonstration of a novel technology that addresses a problem plaguing coal operato...

DOE has received a payment of $57.2 million from the Dakota Gasification Company (DGC), a subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Generation, pursuant to the revenue sharing provision of an Asset Purchase Agreement among DOE, DGC and Basin.

DOE announced on September 29 that it will invest $17.6 million, subject to annual appropriations, in six company-led, early-stage photovoltaic (PV) projects under the Solar America Initiative's "PV Incubator" funding opportunity. The "PV Incubator" pr...

A new 205-kilowatt solar power system was turned on for the first time at DOE's Forrestal Building on September 9, in an inaugural ceremony led by Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.

DOE announced on August 12 that it plans to invest up to $24 million over a number of years to develop products that connect solar power systems with the electrical grid in an interactive way. DOE has selected 12 industry teams that will receive $2.9 m...

DOE announced on March 11 that it will invest up to $13.7 million over the next three years in 11 projects run by 9 universities that will develop advanced solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing processes and products. With a minimum university and indu...

DOE announced on November 29th that $5.2 million will be divided between 12 projects to fund the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. The 12 CSP projects are focused on lowering the cost of components and developing energy stora...

DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman announced on November 8th that DOE will invest $21.7 million in researching next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology, as part of the President's Solar America Initiative. A total of 25 advanced PV projects, led by 15 uni...

DOE announced on June 20th that it will provide up to $60 million for solar energy research. Up to $2.5 million will go to 13 selected cities to promote the use of solar technologies in each city, under DOE's Solar America Cities cooperative agreements...