US DOE To Invest $9.5 Million In Four Solar Projects Updated On Fri, Jun 7th, 2024 by Saurenergy The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has declared plans to invest $9.5 million in four new projects with the goal of increasing public awareness and confidence in large-scale solar advancements. This program supports the US’s objective of having net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, which is an important step given that the DOE estimates that 40% […] Read more
US Initiative Aims To Bring Energy Efficient, RT Heat Pump By 2027 Updated On Thu, Apr 4th, 2024 by Saurenergy US Department of Energy (DOE) at a recently held annual Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit announced new ‘Better Building’ initiatives to help organisations in all sectors of the US economy save energy while reducing costs and emissions. Among the new initiatives is the ‘Better Buildings Commercial Building Heat Pump Accelerator’, through which manufacturers are expected […] Read more
US Households With Heat Pumps Witness 62% Drop Energy Bills: NREL Updated On Tue, Feb 13th, 2024 by Saurenergy NREL is a national laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE) for renewable energy and energy efficiency research development, operated for DOE and funded by the Department of energy’s Building Technologies Office. In its latest research, NREL shared research on the benefit of heat pumps for households. The research was co-authored by Prateek Munankarmi, […] Read more
US Continues Clean Energy Support With $3.5 Billion For Battery Manufacturing Updated On Fri, Nov 17th, 2023 by Saurenergy As part of its Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Biden administration in the US has announced a new round of federal funds to underpin a strong domestic manufacturing. Administered by the Department of Energy (DoE) this $3.5 billion package is the second part of a large $6 billion-plus program that started awarding funds to applicant firms […] Read more
Berkeley, DOE Produce Database To Map Solar PV Facilities Updated On Tue, Nov 14th, 2023 by Saurenergy Berkeley Lab and USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) produced a publicly available database. The detailed Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database (USPVDB) aims to map ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) facilities with capacity of 1 megawatt. This come alongside US’s DOE (Department of Energy) data, that released an online dataset of […] Read more
US Continues To Push For Grid Resiliency With $250 Million Financing For Georgia Updated On Thu, Oct 19th, 2023 by Saurenergy The Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) and application partners Oglethorpe Power, Georgia Transmission, Georgia System Operations and Green Power EMC have joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm to announce that the partners have been selected as a grant recipient in the DOE’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program. The GRIP […] Read more
Minerals firm ICL To Invest $400 Million in Lithium Battery Materials Facility in US Updated On Fri, Oct 21st, 2022 by Saurenergy Global minerals conglomerate ICL has announced that it plans to build a $400 million lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active material (CAM) manufacturing plant in St. Louis, USA. ICL held that this is expected to be the first large-scale LFP material manufacturing plant in the United States. ICL was awarded $197 million through the Bipartisan […] Read more
US Federal Government to spend $3 billion to boost electric vehicles and battery production in USA Updated On Wed, May 4th, 2022 by Saurenergy The administration of the US President Joe Biden has announced that a $3.1 billion plan will be formulated to give a fillip to the manufacturing of domestic electric vehicles batteries to expedite the transition of the USA from gas powered vehicles to electric vehicles. The per capita greenhouse gases’ emission in the USA is the […] Read more
US Researchers Pursue 5¢/kWh Energy Cost Goal with New CSP System Updated On Thu, Feb 17th, 2022 by Saurenergy The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Department of Energy (DoE) are working on a state-of-the-art concentrated solar power (CSP) facility as the government looks to reduce the energy cost to a mere 5 cents per kWh. The new technology is expected to have the potential to lower the cost of renewable energy […] Read more
