Department of Energy – Worth Knowing

•  Moving Toward a Clean Energy Economy: We face many serious and immediate challenges. American families and businesses are struggling in a recession and an increasingly competitive global economy. We have become deeply dependent on a single energy source to power our cars, trucks and airplanes, and spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to import nearly 60 percent of the oil we use...

•  Chu Announces Joint U.S.-China Building Efficiency MOU: After touring the “America House,” a U.S. designed demonstration of cutting edge “zero energy” building technology...

•  US-China Clean Energy Research Center Announced: ...The Center would facilitate joint research and development on clean energy by teams of scientists and engineers from the U.S. and China, as well as serve as a clearinghouse to help researchers in each country...

•  Read Secretary Chu's Harvard University Commencement Address: President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, today’s graduates...

•  Americas’ Energy Leaders Take Action to Realize Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas: The Symposium, the first major energy event after the Summit of the Americas earlier this year, resulted in the announcement of concrete joint actions to improve energy efficiency, promote clean and renewable energy, and increase information sharing on best practices and past experiences...

•  New Funding Boosts Carbon Capture, Solar Energy and High Gas Mileage Cars and Trucks: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $300 million worth of investments that will boost a range of clean energy technologies...

•  DOE Selects 53 New Projects Focused on Wind Energy for up to $8.5 Million: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu today announced selection of 53 new wind energy projects for up to $8.5 million in total DOE funding. These projects will help begin to address market and deployment challenges identified in DOE’s 2008 report...

•  Locke, Chu Announce Significant Steps in Smart Grid Development: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced significant progress that will help expedite development of a nationwide "smart" electric power grid...

•  Obama Administration Awards First Three Auto Loans for Advanced Technologies: Today, the Obama Administration announced $8 billion in conditional loan commitments for the development of innovative, advanced vehicle technologies that will create thousands of green jobs...

•  Obama Administration Awards More than $204 Million for State Energy Programs in 10 States: U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $204 million in Recovery Act funding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in ten states...