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May 10, 2013
EERE Announces Notice of Intent to Issue Early Market Hydrogen and Fuel Cell FOA
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled "Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Medium Duty Trucks, Roof- top Backup Power, and Advanced Hydrogen Refueling Components." [More]
May 6, 2013
A New Vision for Wind Power
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind Program, in close cooperation with the wind industry, is launching a new initiative to develop a renewed vision for U.S. wind power research, development, and deployment. [More]
October 9, 2012
Energy Innovation Portal Bridging Technology Transfer Information Gap
Call the Energy Innovation Portal (the Portal) a Craigslist for technology transfer, aimed at entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate technology scouts. Hosted on the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) website, this Web application created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has rapidly grown into a cyber-marketplace, but instead of used bikes and weed whackers, users take advantage of cutting-edge clean tech. [More]
April 23, 2012
Visual Patent Search: An Easy Way to Find Patents for Innovative Technologies
Elegant, simple, accessible -- these are not words that initially spring to mind to describe a patent search. However, that is precisely how we describe the new Visual Patent Finder tool on our Energy Innovation Portal. This tool helps you easily browse the over 16,000 issued U.S. patents and published U.S. patent applications for Energy Department-funded technologies. [More]
October 21, 2011
DOE's National Laboratories: Energy Innovation's Best Kept Secret
At a time when energy innovation is absolutely critical to our nation's environmental and economic future, not to mention our national security, the DOE laboratories have never been more important – even though they are largely unknown to most Americans. [More]