WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are paying slightly higher prices this Thanksgiving to warm their homes with heating oil than they did last year, ...
Clemson getting $98M for wind turbine test facility officials say could mean thousands of jobs Clemson University is getting nearly $100 million to ...
On tour of federal agencies, first lady Michelle Obama praises Energy Department employees On a visit to the Energy Department on Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama quizzed middle-school students about red blood cells and nanotechnology during a practice science quiz competition. Mrs. ...
A JUICED-UP WIND TURBINE Using features from jet engines, FloDesign Wind Turbine created a compact prototype three times more efficient at turning wind into electricity than today's three-bladed windmills. Two concentric hoops channel air into patterns that create spinning vortexes--like miniature tornadoes--as ...
US Energy Department gives Honolulu $3.8 million for energy efficiency, conservation The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Honolulu a $3.8 million energy efficiency and conservation block grant. Such grants are used to help communities improve their energy efficiency, reduce energy use ...
2 Indiana colleges get $6.3 million in US Energy Department grants for geothermal projects The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $6.3 million to two Indiana colleges to install environmentally friendly geothermal energy systems. Ball State University is getting $5 million to ...
Obama administration about to award energy grants for cutting-edge scientific research One failing of the Bush administration was the lack of federal funding it committed to scientific research and development. A case in point: Its creation in 2007 of a research agency ...
Energy Department says ND is now 4th biggest crude-producing state, surpassing Louisiana North Dakota has surpassed Louisiana as the fourth-largest oil-producing state in the nation, the U.S. Energy Department says. The agency's Energy Information Administration said North Dakota produced 6.38 million barrels ...
Electric motorcycle riders want to 'shock' Obama administration with energy efficiency An Oregon company that makes electric motorcycles thinks it has a homegrown solution to the nation's energy woes. To prove it, the company sent two riders on a 10-day odyssey from ...
Kansas-based utility to receive up to $19 million in stimulus funds for 'smart grid' project Westar Energy Inc. says it will receive federal stimulus dollars for energy efficiency upgrades in Lawrence. The Topeka-based utility said Tuesday it received notice from the U.S. ...
Appliance makers that place this label on their products have very little oversight Since 1996 the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have collaborated on Energy Star — the program whose label is supposed to guarantee that certain projects use power ...
Wyoming geothermal plant sold to US Energy Department The U.S. Energy Department has bought a geothermal plant north of Casper for an undisclosed amount. Ormat Technologies, of Reno, Nev., built the test plant at the Teapot Dome oil field to prove the ...
