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DOE Chief Urges Energy Leaders to Accept Curbs on Greenhouse Gases
March 9, 2010 — Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently told participants at a major energy industry gathering that they need to accept a limit on carbon pollution and start finding ways to meet it. “Let’s get moving now,” Chu told a conference sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. “That will get the innovation machine moving. Time is running out, and the train is leaving the station.” << Full Story >>
Future role of natural gas discussed at Houston energy conference – Fort Worth Star-Telegram
HOUSTON — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and ConocoPhillips CEO
James Mulva made clear Tuesday that they have sharply contrasting views on the
role of natural gas in helping meet the world’s long-term energy needs. In an address at the CERA Week 2010 energy conference, Chu, a Nobel
U.S. needs fresh look at nuclear waste issue: Chu
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Friday that the United States needs to come up with a better system for storing or disposing of radioactive nuclear waste than a planned repository near Las Vegas.
Mindanao power supply crisis worsening – The Manila Times
The Department of Energy (DOE) is banking on the management of
electricity demand in southern Mindanao to curb the region’s growing power
deficiency, which has almost doubled in a span of just a few days. Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes on Wednesday said that this approach would
help Mindanao ease
Secretary Chu Takes R&D Budget to House Science Panel
February 8, 2010 – Energy Secretary Steven Chu will defend his department’s hefty research and development budget request this week to House lawmakers. The White House’s $28.4 billion fiscal 2011 budget request for the Energy Department includes an $8.75 billion nod to nondefense energy-related R&D efforts. << Full Story >>
DOE Releases US $20.5M for Community Renewable Energy Projects
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu this week announced the selection of five projects to receive a combined US $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support deployment of community-based renewable energy projects including biomass, wind and solar installations.
DOE To Invest US $12M in Early Stage Solar Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu last week announced that the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest US $12 million in total funding ($10 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) to support the development of early stage solar energy technologies.
White House Needs New Look At Energy – Investor’s Business Daily
It was a rubbing-the-eyes-in-disbelief headline even from an administration whose energy secretary, Steven Chu, suggested that America’s energy dilemma could be solved by painting roofs white, and
whose interior secretary, Ken Salazar, talked of garnering 3,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity off
Department of Energy to Invest up to $12 Million to Support Early Stage Solar Technologies
January 20, 2010 — U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that the Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will invest up to $12 million in total funding—$10 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—in four companies to support the development of early stage solar energy technologies and help them advance to full commercial scale. << Full story >>
U.S. government says loans for nuclear plants complicated
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Friday that the process for approving federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants has become “complicated,” but the department still expects to issue its first loan deals very soon.
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