Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: September 22, 2010

$63M for Clean Energy Commercialization $20M for Geothermal Technologies Grants: Renewable Energy Feasibility Studies for Rural Businesses Automotive X Prize Winners Announced Leading State Energy Efficiency Programs Announced Clean Energy Investments Help Meet Poverty Reduction Goals DOE Awards $63 Million to Advance Clean Energy Commercialization On September 15, DOE announced it would award $63 million to support commercialization of clean energy technologies, including $57 million for small businesses and $5.3 million for universities. The awards to small businesses include nearly $11 million from the Recovery Act. They will help 33 small businesses across the country develop manufacturing processes to scale up production of their technologies. Those technologies include 21 renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, as well as six new technologies for power grids, three for next-generation nuclear power, and three for cleaner fossil energy. The awards are the first under DOE’s Small Business Phase III Xlerator program, which builds on the successes of DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. 21 commercialization projects will receive nearly $38 million of the total $57 million for small businesses. They include: algae-based biodiesel; four fuel-cell technologies, including two designed for biomass fuels; high-temperature electrical insulation for geothermal energy […]

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