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Former politicians usually don’t have good odds when it comes to picking the best startups to join. But with Steven Chu’s long scientific career in his pocket, he’ll probably do better than most.
It’s official. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says he will step down and will likely return to academic life and teaching.
Private equity firm Silver Lake’s first foray into energy and cleantech investing is gonna be a big one. According to a filing, Silver Lake Kraftwerk is raising a $1.25 billion fund and has closed a little over $200 million of it.
The dream of the “hydrogen highway” in recent years has morphed into a tech for industrial applications like to power forklifts and fleet vehicles. Pike Research estimates that there will only be 5,200 hydrogen fueling stations throughout the world by 2020.
As expected, at an event at the White House on Monday, Obama administration officials unveiled a slew of programs and initiatives that will aim to help add information technology to the power grid to make the grid more efficient and more secure.
On Monday morning the White House plans to hold an event focused on the smart grid that will discuss new private and public initiatives for how to implement a smarter power grid in the U.S.
After the Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu spoke on stage at the ARPA-E Summit on Tuesday, he joined a group of reporters and answered questions candidly about the budget cuts, the high-risk early stage tech that was funded by ARPA-E and oil prices.
Everyone’s favorite DOE Chief Steven Chu was mighty busy today — he ushered in a report that establishes “solar energy zones” on public lands, as well as an announcement that the DOE will give out $184 million in grants for efficient vehicle technology project.
O.K., so there’s been a whole lotta funding news today. Here’s something a bit lighter. This weekend at a holiday gift fair in San Francisco I bought an awesome t-shirt featuring rockstar Department of Energy’s Chief Steven. Actually I bought like three of them.
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu shows off the DOE’s new cool roof and explains the benefits of ditching a dark roof and opting for a cooler (lighter one).
All hail the open-source scientist. Open collaboration in energy innovation will be a key part of fighting climate change, said Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu in Cancun, Mexico, at a side event to the U.N. negotiations.
A public official with a sense of humor is seriously refreshing. The DOE’s Chief Steven Chu sings praise for a particularly funny article in The Onion entitled, “Report: Global Warming Issue From 2 or 3 Years Ago May Still Be Problem,” on his official Facebook page.
With Solyndra’s announcement this morning that it will lay off dozens of workers and close its first factory, the question over whether or not the DOE’s flagship loan guarantee to Solyndra was a mistake has been answered. And yep, it’s a disaster.
A group of 20 senators is urging the Department of Energy to open its loan guarantee program to projects meant to increase U.S. production of rare earth elements, a group of metals used in used in a variety of green technologies.
Out of all the carbon-free power options, nuclear power faces some of the highest hurdles to commercial-scale deployment. But that’s also the reason why supercomputing has started to truly revolutionize the world of nuclear power innovation.
In times of national need, history has shown that countries can innovate fast — with enough funding. The government has been able…
You know what’s a bummer? Being tied to an office answering to the man. After all, getting work done on a beach,…
Energy Secretary Steven Chu — the rockstar geek Nobel Prize winner — announced at the first ARPA-E summit on Tuesday that the…
One of Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s top, if often overlooked, priorities has been to keep the U.S. from falling behind in the…
Over the weekend, I did a bit of research into my crazy new idea. As my Palm Pre (s palm) was put…
In an initiative that we heard vaguely referenced over the weekend, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced an international agreement that will see…
Focusing on a few high-profile U.S. positions at Copenhagen, it’s easy to get discouraged about what the U.S. is bringing to the…
Updated: Chu just announced $620 million for 32 smart grid stimulus demonstration projects, including 16 awards worth $435 million for general smart…
At the Apple (s aapl) iPod event this past September, the iPod nano got a video upgrade, but despite rumors to the…
The $10 million in winnings for the Automotive X Prize competition can provide a welcome influx of cash for the DIY garage-based…
Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for the smart grid industry in the U.S., when utilities and companies will finally learn whether…
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As expected, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke released the smart grid standards road map — which the National Institute of Standards has been…
We knew the Department of Energy would find some way to tie together the oh-so-buzzy subjects of the smart grid and green…
We’ve pointed out the net neutrality issue in the past but today might be the day it starts to become less of…
What happens when a bunch of really smart and musically inclined PhDs who make iPhone apps team up with a popular hip-hop…
By some accounts, the build-out of the smart grid could be the biggest driver of wealth within the decade and create an…
At Senator Harry Reid’s Las Vegas Clean Energy Summit on Monday, the two ends of the ethanol spectrum — first generation corn…
Updated: Google likes to buy things — sometimes with grand designs. But as we all know, grand designs have a habit of…
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has inspired hand-wringing among some companies and trade groups in recent months with calls for the international…
For climate legislation, clearing the House last month by a slim seven-vote margin marked a major step toward passage of the first…
DOE Dole Too Slow, Says Chu: Energy Secretary Steven Chu says he’s “turning up the heat” on stimulus programs in areas including…
In early March the CEO of plug-in car startup Bright Automotive, John Waters, told us his company had two options if it…
Satish Menon, VP of the Consumer Platforms Group at Yahoo (s YHOO) (aka the video platform division, with responsibility for video infrastructure,…
As we’ve pointed out in the past, policy makers and companies building out the smart grid are under the gun to produce…
CEOs are typically shy about talking about other companies during analyst calls; Google’s (s goog) Eric Schmidt is even more bashful on…
WiMAX, at least in Silicon Valley, is like the proverbial Loch Ness Monster — it’s out there somewhere. We’ve heard about it,…
Truphone, a London-based mobile VoIP startup, tomorrow is expected to introduce a flat-rate plan (TruUnlimited for Landlines) that would allow its customers…
Chu on OPEC: Energy Secretary Steven Chu said yesterday he was “pleased” that OPEC had decided against further cuts in oil production.…
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has made it clear from Day 1 that he intends to get long-delayed loans out the door ASAP.…
Secretary Steven Chu has made hasty work of shaking up the Department of Energy. Today the agency announced a series of reforms…
The search engine that had a strong claim on the web long before upstart Google (s goog) came along may be down,…
UPDATED Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a…
Calling a new energy frontier a “leading priority of my presidency,” President-elect Barack Obama, as expected, on Monday afternoon in Chicago named…
The news wires are reporting that president-elect Barack Obama has made some key staffing choices when it comes to fighting climate change,…
Enomaly is trying to sell big business on its open-source cloud management and provisioning software by renaming it and packaging it with enterprise-level support. The software, formerly known as Enomalism, will now use the Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform as its new moniker.
[qi:004] Liz Miller says that these days all people are talking about is Michael Phelps, the winningest Olympian, and a former presidential…
