Articles The New GMOs: Plants Engineered to Be Better Biofuels A new crop of GMOs could improve biofuels. The Department of Energy even has a cute name for them—Plants Engineered To Replace Oils, or PETROs.Sarah Laskow02 Oct, 2011
Articles For Energy Department, More Green Cars, Less Next-Next-Generation Technology The Department of Energy did a little soul-searching and found it was focusing too much on futuristic ideas.Sarah Laskow29 Sep, 2011
Articles The Hidden Reasons Solar Prices Are Dropping There are more contractors competing for solar projects, and the government's making it easier for them to get their jobs done.Sarah Laskow23 Sep, 2011
Articles Cheaper Solar Panels Are Causing a Solar Boom As prices for solar panels have dropped, more companies and utilities in the United States have decided to invest in solar.Sarah Laskow15 Sep, 2011
Articles What Happens to Solar Power When the Sun Doesn't Shine? The Department of Energy has spent the past year trying to find out how solar panels react to clouds passing over the sun.Sarah Laskow08 Sep, 2011
Articles The Race to Build a Solar House That Anyone Can Afford The Department of Energy's Solar Decathalon challenges students to make energy-efficient yet affordable homes.Sarah Laskow27 Aug, 2011
Articles Making Solar Power Work at Night with Mirrors, Salt, and a Hillside Solar-power systems are going to need to provide energy at night or on cloudy days. A team of MIT engineers has a new idea to do just that.Sarah Laskow04 Aug, 2011
Articles A Life-Size Set of Blocks Puts Green Building Ideas to the Test A government lab is constructing four buildings that will be able to test the real-life performance of energy-efficient technologies.Sarah Laskow24 Jul, 2011
Articles Solar Decathalon Kicked Off the National Mall, Will Be Watched Over By MLK and FDR Check out the cool solar-powered designs that'll grace DC's National Parks this September.Ben Jervey05 Mar, 2011
Articles ARPA-E: How the Government Agency With a Name Out of Lost Could "Win the Future" and Save Humanity [Updated] Get to know the new agency that swinging for the clean energy fences.Ben Jervey04 Mar, 2011
Articles Chat About Energy with Secretary Steven Chu Wednesday Energy Secretary Steven Chu is taking questions live Wednesday. Here's what we'll be asking.Ben Jervey28 Jan, 2011
Articles Saving Energy: If You Own Your Home: An Audit That Will Save Money AND Energy From The GOOD Guide to Saving EnergyKeith ScharwathBen Jervey25 Jan, 2011
Articles "MPG" for Your House: The DOE's New Home Energy Score You know how much energy your car uses. Now you'll finally have similar information about your house. Knowing is half the battle.Ben Jervey12 Nov, 2010
Articles Make Your Home Energy Efficient With Energy Secretary Steven Chu Check out this video for a wide range of energy efficiency tips from Energy Secretary Steven Chu.Ben Jervey21 Oct, 2010
Articles New EnergyStar Standards: Putting Efficiency to the Test A few weeks back, I posed a question-"Is EnergyStar at the risk of becoming EnergyIrrelevant?" - that's likely on the minds of consumers who are...Mother Nature Network24 Mar, 2010