Wilmington, DE - As part of the of the Administration's commitment to jumpstarting the production of fuel efficient vehicles in America, Vice President Joe Biden today announced Fisker Automotive is re-opening a shuttered former GM factory in Wilmington, Delaware, to produce long-range, plug-in, electric hybrid vehicles.

Arcadia, Florida - Today, President Obama spoke at the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida where he delivered remarks.

ARCADIA, FLORIDA - Speaking at Florida Power and Light's (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation's transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system.

Washington, DC -- Secretary Steven Chu testified this morning before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.

San Francisco, Calif. - Today, Secretary Chu announced the first $151 million in grant funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.

San Francisco, Calif. - The Department of Energy today announced major funding for 37 ambitious research projects - including some that could allow intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to provide a steady flow of power, or use bacteria to produce automotive fuel from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

The U.S. Senate has approved the nomination of Arun Majumdar as the first director of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

New report shows that the installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems has fallen.

A National Academies of Science report estimates the "hidden" costs of energy production and use.

To encourage research into utility-scale wind energy power as well as to broaden academic study of renewables, DOE is funding three university-led facilities in Illinois, Maine, and Minnesota.

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is crediting the Recovery Act as a major factor in driving strong growth in installed U.S. wind power capacity for the third quarter of 2009. But despite that boost, AWEA sees a slowdown in wind power growth as the year nears its end.

A new California law will allow utility customers to sell back the power from renewable energy systems as large as 3 megawatts in capacity, while a separate law will allow customers using net metering to sell their excess power generation credits at the end of the year.

The list of teams competing for a $10 million prize purse in the Progressive Automotive X Prize has been winnowed down to 43. As those teams gear up to compete, DOE is funding a new high school competition to design the "Dashboard of the Future" to encourage fuel-efficient driving.

Members of the Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC) and supporters convened in Aurora, Colo., today, to mark a milestone in “Powering Up” one of the world’s largest solar test and demonstration facilities. Since announcing the initial launch of SolarTAC one year ago, the site infrastructure development has progressed to the point where members can now break ground for their planned solar technology implementation and testing. Today’s occasion also included the announcement that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have both signed letters of intent to join SolarTAC.

The health and environmental costs of the major air pollutants emitted by energy production and use totaled an estimated $120 billion for the United States in 2005, according to a new report from the National Research Council. Power plants and vehicles are the worst offenders.

Vice President Biden today unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Siemens Energy Inc. today formally commissioned a new 2.3 megawatt Siemens wind turbine at NREL's National Wind Technology Center.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vice President Biden today unveiled Recovery Through Retrofit, a report that builds on the foundation laid in the Recovery Act to expand green job opportunities and boost energy savings by making homes more energy efficient.

A team of university students from Germany took top honors in the 2009 Solar Decathlon, followed by the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Team California. Teams were judged on the solar homes that they assembled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

CARY, North Carolina - Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) met today with employees of Southern Energy Management, a home-grown sustainable energy company, and toured the firm's signature project -- one of the largest solar array energy systems in the Southeast.