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While visiting Southern California Edison’s Electric Vehicle Center Thursday, President Obama announced the availability of $2.4 billion for the “Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative” and “Transportation Electrification”.

The funds will be awarded through competitive grants. Specific announcements are available here (for the Manufacturing Initiative) and here (for the Transportation Electrification). Both grants are “unrestricted” meaning all entities may apply.

The programs are intended…

03/20/2009 5 comments

Renewable Energy

Decentralize the Grid: Practical or Unrealistic?

written by Mackinnon Lawrence

The US electrical grid is a century-old “machine” built for a singular purpose: to power the development and industrialization of the nation’s economy. It is designed to deliver electrons from centralized power producing plants through transmission wires to end consumers. This archaic, unidirectional architecture is unreliable, inefficient, and unsafe.

Using many of the same technologies and assumptions first implemented in the 19th century, today, the grid must keep up with rising demand which outstrips available generating capacity and technological advancements designed to make the grid “smarter“.

03/02/2009 3 comments

Renewable Energy

Secretary Chu is working on getting stimulus money into CleanTech projects

written by Ian Thomson

Yesterday, two days after President Obama signed the stimulus bill (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or ARRA) into law, DOE Secretary Steven Chu announced a reorganization of how the Department of Energy will disperse loans, loan guarantees and funding contained therein.

Obviously, the idea is that there will be a disbursement of money to begin investments into the economy which will put Americans back to work and create millions of new jobs. What is good for CleanTechies like you and me is that there’s a leader at the helm Department of Energy that is keen on energy efficiency and renewables because it is the DOE that will be in a position to bring relevant projects to the table. More great news is he’s added ex-McKinsey consultant Matt Rogers to the team, a long time analyst of energy issues and climate change. It is great to have such strong representation from the business community within the DOE.

02/20/2009 1 comment

Renewable Energy

Climate Change, the Stimulus Bill, and how CleanTech will benefit

written by Mackinnon Lawrence

With less than a year left before the international community reconvenes to tackle climate change in Copenhagen this December, many unanswered questions remain. Chief among them is whether the US can begin to patch together a flurry of legislation targeting reduced greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions in time to signal a renewed commitment to leading the international community on environmental issues. Doing so will focus the spotlight on China, which together with the US, accounts for 40% of the world’s GHG emissions.

02/19/2009 1 comment

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Stimulus Update: Next Generation Electric Vehicles Funds Released

Decentralize the Grid: Practical or Unrealistic?

Secretary Chu is working on getting stimulus money into CleanTech projects

Climate Change, the Stimulus Bill, and how CleanTech will benefit