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Increasing Renewable and Traditional Energy
for American Families

The quality of American life depends on stable, inexpensive, and readily available supplies of energy. Energy heats and cools our homes. It fuels our ambulances, fire trucks, ships, and airplanes. It powers the companies that create jobs and the agricultural economy that feeds our Nation and the world.

Interior Department-managed land and water produce about 30 percent of our Nation's energy supply. Approximately, one-third of our natural gas, coal, and oil, one-half of geothermal, 17 percent of hydropower, and 8 percent of wind power are produced in areas managed by Interior.

The Department of the Interior is committed to implementing President George W. Bush's long-term strategy to produce traditional sources of energy on Federal land in an environmentally responsible way, and increase renewable energy production on Federal land, involving all interested persons in a careful and open process to meet the Nation's needs while protecting sensitive resources for future generations.

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Secretary Kempthorne Details New Frontier
for Offshore Alternative Energy Development

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized MMS to establish the alternative energy program in federal waters. Alternative energy includes wind, wave, solar, underwater current and generation of hydrogen. [<em>Offshore Wind Facility Near Utgrunden, Sweden Courtesy of GE Energy</em>]
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized MMS to establish the alternative energy program in federal waters. Alternative energy includes wind, wave, solar, underwater current and generation of hydrogen. [Offshore Wind Facility Near Utgrunden, Sweden Courtesy of GE Energy] Hi-Res
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced a Departmental initiative that is laying the groundwork to develop alternative energy resources in federal waters off the coasts of the United States.

“Offshore wind, wave, and ocean current energy is a new and highly anticipated frontier for the nation as well as a new regulatory program for the Department’s Minerals Management Service,” Kempthorne said. “This is an important step in fostering a new offshore industry that can diversify our Nation’s power supplies by developing new sources of secure, clean and renewable energy.”   moremore

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