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07/12/11 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $105M loan guarantee to support the development of the nation's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant
07/08/11 Washington D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $105 million loan guarantee to support the development of the nation's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant. Project LIBERTY, sponsored by POET, LLC, will produce up to 25 million gallons of ethanol per year and will be located in Emmetsburg, Iowa. POET estimates the project ...
06/30/11 Washington D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees, of approximately $4.5 billion, to support three alternating current Cadmium Telluride (Cd-Te) thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar generation facilities.
06/30/11 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is in southeastern Wisconsin visiting a company that used tax credits from the economic stimulus bill to expand manufacturing.
06/30/11 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Waukesha Electric Systems in southeastern Wisconsin.
06/28/11 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that six projects in four states - California, Colorado, Florida, and New York - have been selected to receive nearly $7.5 million over two years to advance next-generation designs for wind turbine drivetrains. Drivetrains, which include a turbine's gearbox and generator, are at the heart of the turbine and are responsible for ...
06/23/11 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the release of oil is a response to oil supply disruptions caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, including Libya. So what is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for?
06/23/11 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that eight projects in five states - California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah - have been selected to receive up to $11.3 million to support the research and development of pioneering geothermal technologies.
06/20/11 Solar energy production in the United States has taken a big step forward with the announcement of a loan guarantee to an American company developing new technology. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced a $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies, Inc. to develop multicrystalline wafers.
06/17/11 Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose mandate includes getting more fuel-efficient cars on U.S. roads, is disregarding advisers in his own department and seeking to cut almost half the federal funding for hydrogen-powered autos.
06/16/11 At a White House Grid Modernization event recently, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that more than five million smart meters have been installed nationwide as part of Recovery Act-funded efforts to accelerate modernization of the Nation's electric grid
06/13/11 WASHINGTON, Pa. - To say the group assigned by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to determine the merits and risks of natural gas fracking has its work cut out for it may be an understatement.
06/13/11 Washington, DC - At a White House Grid Modernization event today, U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that more than five million smart meters have been installed nationwide as part of Recovery Act-funded efforts to accelerate modernization of the Nation's electric grid. Smart meters will provide utility companies with greater information about how much electricity is being ...
06/10/11 Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that three California-based organizations will receive more than $4.2 million to research and develop high-efficiency lighting in an effort to deploy solid-state lighting that is cost-effective, high-performing and commercially viable.
06/05/11 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be in Moscow next week to chair the U.S.-Russia Presidential Bilateral Commission's Energy Working Group, partly to implement a smart grid partnership program. View the full article HERE .
05/31/11 SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - May 31, 2011) - Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Ignacio Gal?n, the chairman of Iberdrola S.A. (MCE:IBE) (Bilbao, Spain), said his company will spend $6 billion on electric power projects in the U.S. by the end of 2012. Gal?n's comments came after a May 12 meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Commerce ...
05/30/11 Development of a commercial solar power plant outside of Tonopah that is expected to create more than 600 construction jobs will be backed by a $737 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced recently.
05/13/11 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coulomb Technologies joined with the US Department of Energy and the City of Los Angeles today to celebrate a significant milestone for the ChargePoint America program, at a ceremony today in Exposition Park hosted by the Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles. US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Coulomb Technologies founder and CTO Richard Lowenthal ...
05/05/11 WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration's comprehensive plan to address rising gas prices, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a total of $47 million to fund eight research and development projects that will support the production of biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products from a variety of biomass sources.
05/05/11 Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a group of environmental, industry and state regulatory experts who will make recommendations to improve the safety and environmental performance of natural gas hydraulic fracturing from shale formations - harnessing a vital domestic energy resource while ensuring the safety of our drinking water and the health of the ...
04/29/11 With gas prices in New Hampshire approaching $4 a gallon, Gov. John Lynch met in Hudson on Thursday with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. We wonder if the governor is aware of, or agrees with, Chu's September 2008 comment to The Wall Street Journal: "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." | 
