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Press ReleasesJuly 28, 2016Energy Department Announces $11 Million to Advance Novel Innovations in Solar Power TechnologiesOffice of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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Press ReleasesJuly 21, 2016The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the 2017 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 1 topics, including two subtopics focused on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The fuel ...Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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Press ReleasesJuly 19, 2016The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has selected six Phase II projects, to further develop innovative technologies for advanced gas turbine components and supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles. The p...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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July 15, 2016The Pennsylvania State University took top honors at the Collegiate Wind Competition back in May, and this past week the winning team came to Washington, D.C., to display its prize-winning wind turbine at the Energy Department's headquarters.Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
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July 14, 2016AIKEN, S.C. – Proposing to increase efficiency at H Canyon and attract job candidates, early-career professionals for the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) management and operations contractor put their ideas to the test before judges at an inaugural inn...Office of Management
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July 12, 2016In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets—scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way ...Office of Technology Commercialization
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June 17, 2016Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the breast, while maintaining the same or better image quality and halving the radiation dose to pat...Office of Technology Commercialization
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June 7, 2016Thanks to a DOE Building Technologies Office funding award, QM Power is demonstrating its technology, called the Q-Sync fan motor, in supermarkets.Success Stories
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Press ReleasesMay 18, 2016Energy Department releases the On the Path to SunShot reports, a series of eight research papers examining the state of the U.S. solar energy industry and the progress made to date toward the SunShot Initiative’s goal to make solar energy cost-compet...Energy.gov
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May 18, 2016Scientists curb the energy appetite of the nation’s “answer machines.”Office of Science