The EERE Clean Energy in Action series includes stories featuring current Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) projects, interviews with energy experts, and success stories about EERE’s technology offices and national laboratories. Learn about the positive impact our work has on the American people, businesses, industry partners, universities, research labs, and other entities to increase the use and effectiveness of affordable renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
You can also view an interactive map of EERE Success Stories.
November 17, 2023
How Vehicle-Grid Integration is Forging New Connections
Our nation is transitioning to a decarbonized, electrified energy future.
November 8, 2023
Success Story—New Tool Connects Multiple Microgrids to Increase Community Resilience
Microgrids are small electric grids that can operate while disconnected from the main grid. Learn how a new tool that networks multiple microgrids with solar-plus-storage together can lead to community resilience.
October 30, 2023
Award-Winning Software Helps Communities Plan Their Clean Energy Transition
Learn how a utility in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a national lab used tools to simulate the impact of clean energy technologies on the city’s power system.
October 17, 2023
Nine Reasons We Love Geothermal
Happy Geothermal Day! Today, we are celebrating you and only you, one of our favorite sources of renewable energy.
October 13, 2023
This Hispanic Heritage Month, Explore How Six Pioneers Fought Droughts, Scaled Dams, and Sailed the Pacific on Their Path to Water Power
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) asked six water power pioneers to share their stories.
September 19, 2023
Latino Power: The Future of the Clean Energy Workforce
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, meet three students who prepared for their clean energy careers by gaining valuable experience through three different EERE programs.
September 18, 2023
Why DOE Started Using Cash Prizes to Incentivize Innovation
The U.S. Department of Energy had to invent new options for funding start-ups because the effects of climate change were outpacing technology commercialization.
September 18, 2023
How Progressive Cash Prizes Fueled a Cleantech Startup Revolution
Prize competitions at the U.S. Department of Energy are designed to make it easier and quicker for American innovators to develop clean energy technologies, launch businesses, and increase U.S. manufacturing.
September 18, 2023
How Much Can One Government Idea Alter the Course of Clean Energy?
The U.S. Department of Energy launched the first American-Made Challenge in 2018 to attract more diverse American innovators and accelerate commercialization of clean energy technologies.
September 18, 2023
The Federal Funding Option That Launched Hundreds of Cleantech Startups (and Counting)
The U.S. Department of Energy leveraged American-Made Challenge Prize competitions to get capital to clean energy organizations that were previously unable to access traditional federal funding resources.