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Less Bureaucracy on the Horizon For Solar Power in the U.S.

June 3, 2011

The Obama administration this week announced the availability of more than $27 million in new funding available through the SunShot initiative whose objective is to reduce the non-hardware costs of solar energy projects. The idea is to bring down the overall costs of installed solar energy systems. Technorati Tags: Solar power, United States Department of [...]

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President Obama announces $2.3 billion in renewable energy manufacturing tax credits

January 11, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Earlier in August we wrote about the announcement made by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of the Treasury when they started accepting applications for the Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits, a program to make direct payments in lieu of tax credits to companies that create and [...]

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Energy-saving refrigerators against global warming

December 16, 2009

Energy-efficient refrigerators can save more energy than all the wind, solar thermal and solar photovoltaics in the United States can produce. Thus spoke Steven Chu, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary during his Copenhagen presentation on Monday. Chu used the event to announce Climate REDI (Renewables and Efficiency Employment Initiative), a $350 million international [...]

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Ghostbusters: Exorcizing the phantom load

November 4, 2009

Halloween is over but that doesn’t mean your home is a ghost-free area. Yes, the typical contemporary home is full of specters sucking electricity, raising utility bills and carbonizing the planet. Technorati Tags: Energy, Energy Star, Standby power, Television, U.S. Department of Energy, United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency Related Posts:President [...]

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