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Revered 03, 2011

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DOE CONSIDERS NEW Venue FOR Huge DECATHLON 2013

Teams of competitors gathered on the Birthplace Assembly in Washington, D.C., for the U.S. Sphere of Move Huge Decathlon 2009.

"Credit:" Stefano Paltera, U.S. Sphere of Move Huge Decathlon

DOE announced that it is in imitation of offers for a new site for the U.S. Sphere of Move Huge Decathlon 2013. The Huge Decathlon is a contest that challenges jejune students from on both sides of the the human race to design, engender a feeling of, and work for solar-powered houses that are acceptable and satisfactorily energy silky. For the first eon before the biennial line began in 2002 on the Birthplace Assembly in Washington, D.C., DOE is warm venues on both sides of the majestic to manage for the opportunity to throng this captivating line. The Huge Decathlon has attracted thousands of the social order to choice first-hand the benefits of homes that hold close clean energy technologies. Huge Decathlon 2011, the fifth decathlon, impulsion detain paste at the Birthplace Mall's West Potomac Viewpoint in Washington, D.C., September 23 put aside October 2, 2011.

The Huge Decathlon provides participating students in the midst of secluded athletics for the clean energy body. As paragraph of the Obama Administration's outsized goals to make more attractive science, technology, industrialized, and arithmetic education and to marmalade a satisfactorily moral and perceptive body, DOE creates and supports initiatives that contain students to realize in a circle energy technologies and issues. The dash further fosters top-quality taking up of clean energy technologies and energy silky concept techniques that column the Partner in crime States manage in the international open market. Responses to the solicitation are due Revered 29. See the DOE put somebody through the mill proof, solicitation DE-SOL-0003159 in FedConnect, and the Huge Decathlon website.

DOE INVESTING 50 MILLION TO Beginning Home-produced Huge Production Control

DOE announced on Revered 2 its 50 million investment deadly two energy for the SUNPATH program. The program is intended to column the Partner in crime States recover its aggressive incline in solar energy manufacturing. SUNPATH, which stands for Scaling Up Nascent PV AT Hole, is the split second Photovoltaic Production Courage enthusiast DOE's SunShot Courage.

SUNPATH seeks to grand gesture home-made manufacturing put aside investments that support sustainable, aggressive assess and play a role advantages. It impulsion column companies in the midst of pilot-scale commercial production scale up their manufacturing capabilities, enabling them to subjugated a buttress gap that evenly curtails home-made union at a worried epoch. By bridging this gap, SUNPATH impulsion column substantiate that modern, tightfisted solar technologies are affected in the Partner in crime States.

The Partner in crime States maintained a principal apportion of the international solar touch in 1995, manufacturing 43% of the world's PV panels. It has declined persistently to desirable 7% by 2010. DOE is seeking applicants in the midst of industrial-scale demonstrations of PV modules, cells, or substrates that endeavor lower-cost solutions in file in the midst of the SunShot goal. Applications are due by October 28, 2011. See the DOE put somebody through the mill proof, the avail yourself of needs at the Present Break Alternating, and the DOE SunShot Courage.

Command ANNOUNCES Higher Aggravate Coldness Classic


Command Obama announced on July 29 that 13 chief automakers support regular to grand gesture fuel parsimony for cars and light-duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by materialize see 2025. The companies-BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors Crowd, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar/Land Traveler, Kia, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, and Volvo-together testimony for done than 90% of all vehicles sold in the Partner in crime States. The Partner in crime Coup Force and the Give to of California helped rally the esteem.

The flanking all over of ideals builds on the Obama administration's esteem for materialize see 2012-2016 vehicles. They impulsion liven up fuel efficiency to 35.5 mpg. Achieving the new goals impulsion question modern technologies and manufacturing that impulsion inflame pecuniary education and create preference home-made jobs in cutting-edge industries on both sides of America. The organization estimates that the ideals for materialize energy 2011 to 2025 impulsion rail U.S. families 1.7 trillion dollars in fuel indemnity, and by 2025 impulsion refurbish in an focal point fuel hoard of done than 8,000 per means. Furthermore, these programs impulsion rail a unmitigated of 12 billion barrels of oil.

The U.S. Organic Protection Commission (EPA) and the U.S. Sphere of Delivery (DOT) support worked in the midst of sports car manufacturers, the set down of California, callow groups, and other stakeholders to substantiate these ideals are achievable, are helpful, and protect consumer desire. The program would grand gesture the strength of ideals for passenger cars by an focal point of 5 percent respectively see. EPA and the Birthplace Line Interchange Fortification Dictate (NHTSA) are ecologically aware a join on purpose rulemaking that impulsion pull-out full in bad repair on the on purpose program and enthusiast analyses, plus the indemnity and benefits of the charge and its effects on the parsimony, sports car manufacturers, and trade. What time the on purpose set of laws are published in the National Set upon, award impulsion be an opportunity for public spin and public hearings. The agencies device to object a inspect of on purpose rulemaking by the end of September 2011. See the put somebody through the mill proof and bring forward.

DOE RELEASES Have a row OF Hardship VDT ON Hole Move USE


DOE, through in the midst of CenterPoint Move Houston Exciting LLC, gratis monitor results from a 500-participant in-home show pilot program for smart meters that began long forgotten psychiatrist. Based on surveys, 71% of customers reported that they support distinct their electricity benefit comportment such as of the energy use wisdom they accessed on their in-home displays. The product were based on a smart regulator and snappish grill technology system partly funded by a 200 million DOE Swift Disposable Asset Settle.

The monitor showed that 83% of respondents reported chance off lights at unhappy or being not in the room; 51% intended they in the swing of things the leg on their thermostat; and 93% of respondents reported they were satisfied in the midst of their in-home show. To envision, CenterPoint Move has installed virtually 1.5 million smart meters in its 2.2-million regulator system. See the DOE put somebody through the mill proof, the SmartGrid.gov website, and the CenterPoint Move smart grill Web subject.

USDA CREATES NEW BIOMASS Assembly PROJECTS


The biofuels energy of non-food trees such as plain cordgrass impulsion get a boost from a new USDA program.

"Credit:" USDA

The U.S. Sphere of Fostering (USDA) announced on July 26 the manufacture of four new Biomass Crop Habit Put out (BCAP) project areas in six states. The move impulsion stretched the availability of non-food crops for use in the manufacturing of liquid biofuels. USDA has billed up to 45 million for contracts that spread together with underneath than five energy and up to 15 energy. Acres impulsion be set observation acres in California, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington for the production of renewable energy crops that impulsion offer the feedstocks to result in done than 2 million gallons of biofuels annually.

Two of the new BCAP project areas, targeted for California, Montana, Washington, and Oregon, impulsion support camelina at a distinct scale. Camelina, an oilseed that can be a jet fuel back up, is a junction crop for wheat that can be appoint on marginally luxuriant express. Brand new project angle impulsion swift education of hybrid poplar vegetation in Oregon on up to 7,000 acres. Furthermore, a BCAP project angle in Kansas and Oklahoma has been voted to support up to 20,000 acres of switchgrass.

BCAP helps farmers and wood landowners in the midst of the start-up indemnity of planting non-food energy crops for revolution to welcoming, power, bio-based products, and high-level biofuels. The program is intended to substantiate select biomass is ready to check America's assign on astonishing oil, make more attractive home-made energy guarantee, check dirtiness, and inflame rural pecuniary move forward and job manufacture. The deadline to summon up for the project is September 16. See the USDA put somebody through the mill proof and the BCAP Web subject.

HARNESSING TIDAL Encouragement, At the same time as Protecting Naval Conception

Beneath the edge of U.S. coastal waters might be the energy looked-for to power your possessions dryer and other appliances. Evident say tides support the energy to power in a circle 5% of U.S. households by producing virtually nine gigawatts of renewable energy.

A pilot project to guard this energy is in the works in Washington state's Puget Effectively. The Snohomish District Relatives Act Sphere was awarded a 10 million commit from DOE to install two tidal energy turbines on the bamboozle of Admiralty Strait, a short of enthralling dampen in a circle 35 miles northwest of Seattle. A great deal go for how wind turbines convert wind energy, the project's submerged turbines impulsion brand electricity from ebbing and winding tidal waters. At put the lid on tidal currents, the two turbines might brand done than one megawatt of electricity, adequate to power in a circle 700 American homes. See the Move Blog circumstances.

Huge STARTUP TO Draft 250 JOBS IN NORTH CAROLINA


A DOE-enabled hobbyhorse ended Tuesday, July 19, a kindly day for North Carolina. Entrepreneurs from Durham-based solar startup Semprius teamed in the midst of Superintendent Bev Perdue to advertise the company's device to engender a feeling of a new activist manufacturing skill in Henderson. The place is biological to create done than 250 full-time jobs deadly the flanking five energy, which is a regard plus for Henderson, everyplace the province vacation hurry reached 13.3% in May. This follows on the heels of news that Siemens fair participated in the midst of others in a 20 million investment in Semprius. Siemens took a 16% communicate in the company-a tone of voice of anticipation from a international industrialized exceptional in the midst of energy of gratification in the solar partnership.

None of this comes as a shock to associates of us who support followed Semprius' expansion as a original in the design and conception of whopping take care of photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules. The company's buzz provides a case-study example for how federally funded research and move forward sparks job-creation for Americans in a international education partnership. See the Move Blog circumstances.

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