All Posts Tagged With: "Secretary Chu"

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Chu Tours GE/PrimeStar Plant in Arvada,
Touts Solar Market

The Energy Secretary used the visit to re-emphasize the huge market potential for solar, especially thin-film technology used in PrimeStar’s panel manufacturing, which was developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden.

21Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOE Praises and Promotes Electric
Vehicle Market

$25,000, 350-mile-per-charge electric car could be reality within six years, according to the Feds. At Friday’s gala event, Secretary Chu and local officials in L.A. flipped the switch on the 500th electric-vehicle charging station installed by Coulomb Technologies as part of its ChargePoint America network.

15May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOE Closes on $400M Loan Guarantee for Abound Solar Manufacturing Project

“Size matters when building scale,” CEO Tom Tiller told Colorado Energy News. “This funding will help us grow from 30 to more than 800 megawatts in production capacity — in just three or four years.” 200 Front Range jobs are expected to be created because of the project.

17Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Chu Warns of U.S. Ceding Clean Energy to China

At Friday’s Colorado Energy Jobs Summit on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the Secretary sited several areas where he said we’ve fallen behind other nations, including vehicle fuel efficiency, electricity transmission efficiency, battery technology and nuclear power.

27Feb2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Chu Aims to Double U.S. Hydropower Capacity —
Without Building New Dams

The Secretary said improvements to the existing infrastructure could add 70,000 MW of capacity. “We will be pushing this,” Chu said at a White House forum. “We’re not talking about a lot of large, new reservoirs. Just work with what we have and it’s a massive amount of power.”

17Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Chu Says DOE Will Speed Up Funding Process

“This is a very sick economy. If it takes four years to get a new set of loans out, either the patient will have recovered by himself — or he will have died.” He also pledged the DOE would drastically reduce the amount of paperwork required for the loan process.

4May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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