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Hutto you know? Cheney aide poised to head key division of Department of Energy	Kate Sheppard	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
The Washington Post reports today that F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, is likely to be appointed as a key official at the Energy Department. Hutto has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration. A promotion to assistant secretary for policy and international affairs would put him in charge of the department's policies on climate change. The DOE website says the assistant secretary serves as ' ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Dick Cheney, Muckraker, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Flush! Department of Energy flushes $15 million down the hydrogen toilet	Joseph Romm	17 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There are only three sure things in life -- death, taxes, and you won't be buying a hydrogen fuel cell car. Sadly, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has not gotten any of the memos (see 'Some clarity on the Clarity' and 'This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead'). As GreenCarCongress reports: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 cost-shared hydrogen storage research and development p ...
Topics: renewable energy, politics, Department of Energy, hydrogen (all these topics)

Priorities	David Roberts	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
From earth2tech: In the last two days, the Department of Energy has announced $24 million worth of new investments in solar energy while also revealing it's putting a whopping $340 million into yet more clean coal research. In conjunction with the funding announcements, the DOE says it's "committed to ... developing the technologies that will ensure coal can be used," but at the same time describes solar as "an important component of our comprehens ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Expanding Waste Estimated cost of Nevada nuke-waste dump soars		05 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 3:46 PM on 05 Aug 2008 The total cost of dumping nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain repository will hit $96.2 billion, the Department of Energy estimated Tuesday. The estimate has jumped 38 percent, excluding inflation, since 2001. And it assumes no new construction of nuclear reactors; to put that in perspective, John McCain is pushing for the U.S. to build up to 45 new nuclear plants by 2030. The Energy Department ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

The limitless resource Energy efficiency is the core climate solution, part 2	Joseph Romm	25 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Energy efficiency is by far the biggest low-carbon resource available. It is also, as we'll see, every bit as renewable as wind power, solar photovoltaic, and solar baseload. People who have little experience with what serious energy efficiency investments can do for a company or a state -- this means you, neoclassical economists who consistently overestimate the cost of climate mitigation! -- think it is a one-shot resource wherein you pick the low hanging fruit. ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, energy efficiency, greening biz operations (all these topics)

Notable quotable Toyota and Honda could sure learn something from Chevy!	David Roberts	14 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I don't have to tell you how sexy the [Chevy] Volt is. The Japanese and Chinese couldn't possibly put out something that appealing to middle America.' -- Andy Karsner, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy
Topics: cars, Department of Energy, electric vehicles, energy, placemaking, quotables (all these topics)

Group Plug Big Three automakers get plug-in funding from feds		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:37 PM on 13 Jun 2008 The U.S. Big Three automakers will get $30 million over three years for plug-in hybrid R&D, the Department of Energy announced Thursday. While less than automakers wanted -- last year they pushed for $500 million -- each welcomed some funding for various aspects of plug-in research. Chrysler plans to build a test fleet of 80 plug-ins, including 10 adapted Dodge Durangos and Chrysler Aspens; Genera ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, Department of Energy, electric vehicles, news (all these topics)

My Side of the Mountain DOE applies to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain		03 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:14 PM on 03 Jun 2008 The U.S. Department of Energy has filed a formal application to construct a nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The application, which runs tens of thousands of pages, attempts to prove that 77,000 tons of nuclear waste could be stored at Yucca Mountain without harming public health, safety, and the environment for up to a million years. The Nuclear Regulatory Commissio ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Nevada, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

A future for FutureGen? Senate slips life support for 'clean coal' boondoggle into war supplemental package	Kate Sheppard	16 May 2008	Gristmill
Remember FutureGen, the pilot program that was supposed to yield the nation's first zero-emissions, 'clean coal' power plant? The one that even the Bush administration realized was a bad idea, after the price tag on the project ballooned to $1.8 billion? Well, some senators just don't want to see it die ($ub req'd). Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved language to force the Department of Energy to continue funding FutureGen until March ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Illinois, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

The renewable energy beneath our wings Bush DOE says wind can be 20 percent of U.S. power by 2030 -- with no breakthroughs	Joseph Romm	13 May 2008	Gristmill
The Bush administration has signed off on a stunning new report [PDF], '20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply.' I am working on a big wind article for midweek, but here are the key conclusions of what is easily the most comprehensive and credible report released on wind power in a decade: Annual installations need to increase by only a factor of three from current levels by 2018. Costs of integrating intermitt ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Puff Piece U.S. could get 20 percent of energy from wind by 2030, says DOE		13 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:52 AM on 13 May 2008 Wind power could meet 20 percent of U.S. energy demand by 2030, according to Energy Department calculations, even though currents currently provide a mere 1 percent of U.S. electricity. Making the leap would be "ambitious" but "feasible," says the report: it wouldn't require technological breakthroughs, but would necessitate the construction of 75,000 new and improved ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Do we need a massive government program to generate breakthroughs to make solar energy cost-competitive? Concentrated solar power is already doing great; no breakthroughs needed	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Almost certainly not and absolutely not. I give two answers here because there are two very different types of solar energy: Solar photovoltaics, PV, which is direct conversion of sunlight to electricity. It is well known, high-tech, uneconomically expensive in most parts of this country (but poised to resume dropping sharply in price), and intermittent (power only when the sun shines). Solar thermal electric or concentrated solar power (CSP), which uses mi ...
Topics: business, Department of Energy, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

The Vulcan Project A high-resolution map of U.S. CO2 emissions	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Check out the Vulcan Project out of Purdue University (with funding from NASA and DOE). It's an attempt to quantify and visually represent U.S. CO2 emissions over time: Here's a nifty video introduction: (via Dot Earth)
Topics: climate, climate science, Department of Energy, energy, fossil fuels, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Welcome NYT readers to the debate of the decade: Technology development vs. deployment We've run out of time to wait for an unknown techno-fix to save us	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin wrote in The New York Times last weekend about what I believe is the climate debate of the decade. This post will serve as an introduction to this crucial topic for readers new and old. I will devote many posts this week to laying out the 'solution' to global warming, and a few to debunking the 'technology breakthrough' crowd.Why do I write so much about this topic of technology development vs. deployment, especially when it sometimes seems like I am a ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, Department of Energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, tech (all these topics)

An Embarrassment of Richton Mississippi town not enthusiastic about storing strategic petroleum		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Richton, Miss., is the lucky town picked as the fifth storage site for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. To create space to store strategic petroleum, the Department of Energy will drain 50 million gallons of water a day for five years from the Pascagoula River to dissolve underground salt caverns, pumping the resulting brine through likely-to-leak pipelines over ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Mississippi, news, oil, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Poof! 132 coal plants disappear The magic mouse of Guy Caruso	Ted Nace	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Want to kill one coal plant? Use a lawyer. Want to kill a hundred? Use a spreadsheet. On March 4, without fanfare, a�bureaucrat named Guy Caruso caused�132 coal plants to disappear with a wave of his magic mouse. Caruso is the head of the Energy Information Administration, the division of the U.S. Department of Energy that, well, comes up with information on energy. Sort of like the CIA, but less glamorous. A year ago, the EIA projected [PDF] that electri ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy (all these topics)

Yet another perk of energy-efficient buildings Car plant cuts energy costs $627,000 with two-month payback -- with DOE help	Joseph Romm	09 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Economic models greatly overestimate the cost of carbon mitigation, in large part because economists simply don't believe (and hence don't model) that the economy has lots of high-return energy efficiency opportunities. In their theory, the economy is always operating near efficiency. Reality is very different than economic models. I have never visited a factory or commercial buildings that didn't have huge energy-saving opportunities, many of which also increase ...
Topics: business, cars, Department of Energy, economy, energy, energy efficiency (all these topics)

Bodman as Orwell DOE erases 'most successful' weatherization program from website	Joseph Romm	10 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Late last week, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) raked Energy Secretary Bodman over the coals -- the best possible use for that fossil fuel! Within days of uncompassionately zeroing out the low-income weatherization program at a time of record energy prices, Bodman's DOE altered the DOE website. Until a few days ago, the website of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Weatherization Program describe the effort as 'this country's longest running, and p ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, politics (all these topics)

DOE'h! Dept. of Energy paints different picture of clean coal than president's SOTU	David Roberts	03 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Over at Solve Climate, David Sassoon is taking a nice leisurely stroll through the Dept. of Energy's Carbon Sequestration Technology Roadmap and Program Plan (2007). Some astonishing sights await! First, he notices that despite some big talk in recent press releases, the DOE road map says frankly that "as a technology and a research discipline, carbon sequestration is in its infancy." Development and testing of key technologies is scheduled for as much as 12 ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy (all these topics)

PastGen Department of Energy backs away from funding FutureGen project		29 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:04 PM on 29 Jan 2008 Well let us just pick our grinning jaws up off the floor: The U.S. Department of Energy has told lawmakers that it plans to pull funding for FutureGen, its ambitious and crazily expensive "clean coal" demonstration plant. The feds had planned to cover some three-quarters of the $1.8 billion price tag, and cited ballooning costs as its reason for backing out. The announcement pissed ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, Department of Energy, energy, Illinois, news, politics (all these topics)

Corridor Stop Green groups sue over DOE's plans for electric transmission corridors		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:55 PM on 11 Jan 2008 Green groups are suing the Department of Energy over its plans for electric transmission corridors in the U.S. Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. The groups say the DOE violated environmental laws by failing to take into account the potential impacts of the high-voltage transmission lines on air quality, wildlife, and habitat; the corridors encompass dozens of state and national ...
Topics: Department of Energy, electricity grid, energy, litigation, news (all these topics)

Back to the FutureGen FutureGen		18 Dec 2007	News
"clean coal" demonstration plant slated for Illinois Posted at 8:26 AM on 18 Dec 2007 FutureGen, the U.S. Department of Energy's massive "clean coal" demonstration plant, will be sited in Mattoon, Ill., officials announced this morning. Three other potential locations for the plant each lobbied heavily for the roughly $1.8 billion project to be built on their turf -- one other site in Illinois and two others in Texas. The FutureGen project, wh ...
Topics: climate, coal, cogeneration, Department of Energy, news, United States (all these topics)

Stan, Stan, He's Not Our Man Nominee for federal fossil-energy secretary has strong ties to Big Coal		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 17 Dec 2007 From 2001 to 2003, Stanley Suboleski was chief operating officer of mining company Massey Energy, which faces $2.4 billion in fines for more than 4,000 alleged Clean Water Act violations at its coal operations in West Virginia and Kentucky within the past six years. It's only logical, then, that President Bush would nominate Suboleski, who is still an independent ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy, jackassery, news, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Sproat It All Yucca Mountain may be doubled in size, need more funding		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 05 Oct 2007 In a move sure to endear Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository to fiercely opposed Nevadans, the Department of Energy has proposed doubling its size. Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) concisely sums up the reaction of the sane: "Doubling the size of Yucca Mountain will only double the danger. This is not a bad dream; it's a nightmare." In addition, the DOE's Edward F. S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, insanity, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Into the Breach DOE hasn't opened Yucca nuclear-waste dump, must pay millions for breach of contract		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 01 Oct 2007 As if the saga of Nevada's Yucca Mountain wasn't ridiculous enough, a court has ruled that the Department of Energy's failure to open the nuclear-waste repository on time will have a price tag of $116.5 million, payable to Xcel Energy for breach of contract. And just to remind you of the ridiculousness, in the words of Minnesota State Senator Ellen Anderson: &quo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, litigation, Nevada, news, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

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