Just a few months after the Obama administration set aside $400 million for high-risk clean energy research projects, the Department of Energy has narrowed the pool of some 3,500 applicants down to about a couple hundred. This week, the DOE completed its evaluation of the initial […] Read more »
One of the hottest cleantech funding programs created as part of the stimulus package is close to producing some of its first winners. When we spoke with the Department of Energy back in May about the $2.4 billion in grants for advanced battery manufacturing for plug-in […] Read more »
Lawyers for electric car startup Tesla Motors, CEO Elon Musk and founder Martin Eberhard will do battle in court tomorrow, the AP reports, as Musk and Tesla try to get Eberhard’s lawsuit thrown out. Nearly a month has passed since Tesla filed a motion calling for […] Read more »
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The security of the smart grid is going under the microscope this week. As Patricia Hoffman, the acting assistant secretary for the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability said in a testimonial last week, the DOE may refuse to hand out smart […] Read more »
What timing: The Department of Energy is ratcheting up efforts to enforce energy efficiency standards for appliances, and has just issued the first subpoena in its new crackdown — less than 24 hours after the agency’s inspector general reported the DOE has been failing, more often […] Read more »
DOE Flunks Again: The latest inspector general’s report finds that the Department of Energy often fails to adjust heating and air conditioning settings to conserve energy, wasting more than $11 million per year. This comes on the heels of another report finding the DOE wastes more […] Read more »
Lincvolt Bows Out of X Prize Competition: Neil Young’s biodiesel/gasoline/hydroxy gas-powered Lincvolt has withdrawn from the race to focus on developing technology without the distraction of devising a business model (an X Prize requirement). — Lincvolt via AutoblogGreen Small Wind, Coming Soon to the Hardware Store: […] Read more »
DOE Wants to Be Your Facebook Friend: “The Obama administration really, really doesn’t want the fight over health care to steal attention from energy and climate legislation. Energy Secretary Steven Chu just launched a Facebook page to keep climate change front and center.” — WSJ’s Environmental […] Read more »
Eight smart grid demonstration projects in seven states have just hit pay dirt. The Department of Energy today announced awards of more than $47 million in stimulus funds for the projects, adding to the $17 million that the agency invested in them last year after a […] Read more »
BP Drops Jatropha: BP has “given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.” — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Palin Climate Smackdown, Round 2: After Sen. John Kerry lambasted […] Read more »
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Wal-Mart Plans Environmental Reporting, Labels: Wal-Mart is requiring manufacturers to report the full environmental costs of their products, and plans to distill the data into green ratings that shoppers will eventually see alongside prices, a move that could “redefine the design of products sold around the […] Read more »
The feds on Thursday unveiled guidelines to provide $3 billion in grants for renewable energy projects including solar, wind and biomass. The hope is that the grants will help spur investment in renewable energy projects, but analysts at investment bank ThinkEquity Partners aren’t so optimistic, according […] Read more »
Thin-film startup SoloPower announced today that CEO Homayoun Talieh has left his position, though he will remain on the company’s board of directors. The announcement came two months after Vice President of Research Rommel Noufi — whose hire SoloPower bragged about last year — exited the […] Read more »
So there’s a new OS that’s based on the web, relies primarily on a web browser, and whose native apps are web apps. Old news, you say? We already know about Palm’s WebOS. No, I don’t mean that one. This one will primarily target netbooks. Still […] Read more »
DOE Dole Doesn’t Come Cheap: To score a $43 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy last week, energy storage company Beacon Power spent $1 million over three years filling out 96 forms. “Considering the company only earns $68,000 in revenue, it’s a miracle Beacon […] Read more »
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Let there be light. The Obama administration unlocked $346 million in stimulus funds for energy efficiency earlier this week, including $50 million for advancing solid state lighting, or SSL, technology. The Department of Energy designed the program as “a coordinated development of advanced manufacturing techniques” and […] Read more »
The Department of Energy just opened up $346 million in stimulus funds for boosting the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings — but ultimately the agency’s chief, Steven Chu, wants energy efficiency, and other elements of green building, to be incorporated into structure designs from […] Read more »
The Toshiba TG01, a Windows Mobile smartphone with Toshiba’s own UI, is expected to be released in the UK on July 9. The TG01 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz processor and the custom interface completely buffers the user from the old Windows Mobile underpinnings. The […] Read more »
EPA Grants California Emissions Waiver: The U.S. EPA today granted California a long-sought waiver to set tougher tailpipe emission limits than federal standards, a key step in the Obama administration’s plan to mandate higher MPGs nationwide. — NYT’s Green Inc. China Loosens Hybrid Rules: China has […] Read more »
Much has changed for battery maker A123Systems since it first filed to go public nearly a year ago. In the fourth and latest revision to its SEC registration statement, filed last week, the company has laid out some of the opportunities — and potential pitfalls — […] Read more »
The Obama administration turned the page on a new chapter for energy efficiency today, opening up $346 million in stimulus funds for “energy-efficient technologies in all major types of commercial buildings as well as new and existing homes,” and raising the bar on efficiency and conservation […] Read more »
So much for the “rapid restart” that Department of Energy Chief Steven Chu had in mind for the FutureGen project, a controversial public-private initiative to test experimental carbon capture and storage technology at a new 275 MW coal plant. Less than two weeks after Chu announced […] Read more »
Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally and Department of Energy chief Steven Chu don’t agree on everything, but both are laying out plans for the potential of higher oil prices in the future, though neither are sure when, if or how high oil prices will rise. […] Read more »
It’s one thing for the federal government to commit billions of dollars for smart grid technology and transmission infrastructure. But it’s quite another for the spigot to actually open with a clear set of criteria for applicants — and that’s where we are today. The Obama […] Read more »
It’s official: Tesla Motors has won approval for $465 million in low-interest direct loans from the Department of Energy under the delayed Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program. Tesla, which now sells a $109,000 electric sports car, has just been awarded what the DOE calls “conditional loan […] Read more »
Updated with comment from Tesla: Tomorrow could be a big day for Tesla Motors and the would-be customers who have logged more than 1,000 orders for the startup’s planned electric sedan, the Model S. The San Carlos, Calif.-based company’s request for $350 million in loans under […] Read more »
The new iPhone 3GS has hit the big time and the Palm Pre continues to rock the smartphone world. These stories and others were covered, here are the top stories in case you missed them: Competition is Bad in the Tech World What I Don’t Like […] Read more »
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Launching a vehicle on the mass market doesn’t come cheap. As legacy players like General Motors work to resolve their own funding issues, startups are racing to finance production of fuel efficient and plug-in vehicles that just might gain a foothold among mainstream consumers before the […] Read more »
MySpace is cutting nearly 30 percent of its U.S. workforce, or roughly 420 people, the social networking site said today, bringing its total number of U.S. employees to around 1,000. The announcement comes just two months after MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and President Tom Anderson left […] Read more »
As far as regional rivalries go, competition among U.S. states to lead the way on clean energy, efficiency and smart grid tech could be one of the more productive ones. Today the Obama administration gave a few points to states on the Western team, opting to […] Read more »
DOE Dole Too Slow, Says Chu: Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he’s “turning up the heat” on stimulus programs in areas including fossil energy and electricity transmission that “don’t feel the sense of urgency that they should feel” to get cash out the door quickly. — […] Read more »
Development of the public-private “cleaner coal” demo project known as FutureGen has been anything but smooth sailing. Plans for a 275 MW coal-fired power plant equipped with experimental carbon capture technology ran hugely over budget in the early stages, and hit a dead end when the […] Read more »
DOE Details More Funding Opps: The Department of Energy today detailed some of how more than $300 million in investments funded by the stimulus package and the agency’s annual appropriations will be divvied up among clean energy technologies including carbon capture from coal, solar power and […] Read more »
Looks like the Moblin development team is keeping busy. Version 2.0 of the Linux-based mobile operating system for netbooks arrived last month and is already refreshed. I’m downloading it now and will likely run it off a Live CD on my MSI Wind. My little laptop […] Read more »
It wasn’t so long ago that U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced $256 million in stimulus funding for industrial energy-efficiency initiatives, $50 million of which will go to research, development and demonstration projects aimed at helping cut the energy used by information and communication technologies. […] Read more »
For those of you keeping score of the race among alternative fuel vehicle technologies to take over U.S. roads, the DOE and the National Renewable Energy Labs have just launched a new tool: an interactive map of alt-fuel vehicle hot spots and fueling infrastructure, displayed using […] Read more »
After some concern that the solar industry would have to wait to receive stimulus money, the dollars look ready to start flowing — at least those that were set aside for startups. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory on Tuesday said it’s already selected a group of […] Read more »
GM Opens Up Battery R&D Center: Today General Motors opened its new Global Battery Systems Lab, a facility designed for testing the lithium-ion batteries planned for the Chevy Volt, plus other energy storage systems such as ultracapacitors. — CNET’s Green Tech DOE Needs Dose of Its […] Read more »
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