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As part of the Energy Department's commitment to give American businesses more options to cut energy costs and reduce reliance on imported oil, the Department announced $2.4 million to collect and analyze performance data for hydrogen fuel...

The SunShot Grand Challenge Summit in Denver, Colorado, this week brought together the best and brightest minds in the solar industry to assess pro...

A new competition will make it easier and cheaper for utilities, businesses and consumers to deploy solar

The Energy Department announced the investment of more than $5 million in two projects—led by 3M Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Eaton Corporation in Southfield, Michigan—that will lower the cost of advanced fuel cell systems by developing and ...

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, today Energy Secretary Steven Chu was joined by Lynn Jurich, the president and co-founder of the solar power company Sunrun, and Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to announce $12 million in fu...

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced nearly $7 million over five years for independent cost analyses that will support research and development efforts for fuel cells and hydrogen storage systems. The four projects – in California, Ohio, and...

DOE-DOI Strategy Seeks to Harness U.S. Offshore Wind Energy Potential

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, DOE is investing up to $20.3 million in innovative projects to strengthen the U.S. solar manufacturing industry, improve manufacturing efficiencies, and reduce costs. This includes suppor...

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced additional details of the Department of Energy's "SunShot" initiative to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at large scale with oth...