News
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]
December 17, 2012
An Update on the National Offshore Wind Strategy
The Energy Department has been investing in the emerging industry of offshore wind energy. Guided by the Energy Department’s national offshore wind strategy, we’ve been supporting innovations that will reduce the costs and speed up the deployment of American-made offshore wind energy technologies designed for U.S. coastal conditions and provide valuable opportunities to test these innovations in real offshore environments. [More]
December 14, 2012
Funding Opportunity Announcement: Carbon, Hydrogen, and Separation Efficiencies (CHASE) in Bio-Oil Conversion Pathways
On December 14, the Department of Energy announced a funding opportunity for up to $12 million to be provided for up to five research and development (R&D) projects that will boost biofuel yields from non-food-based lignocellulosic feedstocks. [More]
October 31, 2012
United States' Clean Energy Patents Soar, Report Indicates
The number of clean energy U.S. patents granted in the second quarter of 2012 reached a new high, according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index. [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]