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Department of Energy to Invest Millions to Make American Homes Energy-Efficient
To help American households become energy efficient, the US Department of Energy will provide $30 million worth of investment to retrofit projects of American homes to make them more efficient in using energy. The $30 million initial investment will be allotted for the first 18 month life of the project. 15 research and deployment partnerships will also be utilized to realize the said program. The agency will also allocate a total of $20 million per year for the project. There will also be three possible one-year extensions.
Vice President Joe Biden announced the Department of Energy’s Retrofit Ramp-Up initiative back in April with the idea of making each home to be as energy-efficient as possible. The project involves both public and the private sector including non-profit organizations in carrying out the retrofit tasks in pilot communities. It will also involve industry experts and new technologies and engineering expertise in the department’s existing pool of resources.
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DOE awards $18.5 million to New England energy projects
The DOE announced on Monday that through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), New England energy projects will get $18.5 million funding. Some of the awards include $4.4 million for a power electronics project by MIT, $2.2 million for an energy storage project by Beacon Power Corp based in Tyngsboro and three other projects by United Technologies Research Center located in East Hartford, Conn totaling nearly $9 million.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is the source of the funding and is worth nearly $92 million nationwide. In April, Massachusetts universities and companies got $22.1 million from the second round of energy research funding from ARPA-E. This is the third and last round of ARPA-E grants Recovery Act funding, which has come to a final total of $349 million in funding. In this round the New England projects that are funded are: Continue reading
