Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: January 6, 2010

DOE: $366M for Energy Innovation Hubs Bill Funds Transit Projects, Home Retrofits, Global Clean Energy Boeing Launches Fuel-Efficient 787 Dreamliner NASA Calculates California’s Carbon Budget DOE to Invest $366 Million in Energy Innovation Hubs DOE outlined plans in December to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three Energy Innovation Hubs, each of which will focus on accelerating research and development in a key energy area. The three hubs will focus on producing fuels directly from sunlight; improving energy-efficient building systems design; and developing advanced nuclear reactors. Each hub, to be funded at $122 million over five years, will bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to speed research and shorten the path from scientific discovery to technological development and commercial deployment of highly promising energy-related technologies. The hubs are expected to begin work in 2010 and become fully operational by 2011. Of the two hubs that relate to renewable energy and energy efficiency, the Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub will likely draw on the mechanisms of photosynthesis, mimicking the ability of plants to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into sugar. The Energy Efficient Building Systems Design Energy Innovation Hub will focus on advances in core […]

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