Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: May 12, 2010

Global Leaders Meet to Collaborate on Energy Efficiency Goals DOE Awards $62 Million to 13 Concentrating Solar Power Projects DOE Offers $60 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Projects DOE and USDA Offer $30 Million for Biomass Research and Development DOE Awards $13 million for the Industrial Energy Efficiency Grand Challenge EIA Examines the Impacts of Alternate Future Scenarios on Energy Trends Global Leaders Meet to Collaborate on Energy Efficiency Goals Leaders from 15 countries including the EU and US met on May 11 for the first policy meeting of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC). The group sought to forge partnerships among governments to combat climate change, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and boost the global clean energy economy. DOE Assistant Secretary Cathy Zoi, elected to a two-year term as the first chair of the IPEEC policy committee, called for nations to use unprecedented speed and scale in the effort to deploy energy efficiency, thereby cutting energy demand and emissions worldwide while building economic development. Assistant Secretary Zoi heads DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. IPEEC was launched in May 2009 by the Group of Eight Energy Ministers. Last year, IPEEC member countries contributed […]

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