"We're trying to find the lowest-hanging fruit, " says Kelly Rose, a research geologist at the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory.
He cites FuelCell Energy's work for the Department of Energy on a technology known as the fuel cell hybrids, or power plants that cut emissions by combining fuel cells with conventional gas turbines.
The Department of Energy will work to develop better screening technology, he said.
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved billions of dollars to technology developers such as Silver Spring and a bunch of utilities to test and deploy smart grid technologies across the country.
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And I have instructed the Department of Energy to make sure that our federal operations are employing the best possible clean energy technology, alternative energy technology.
The Department of Energy has applied for a patent on the technology, and Halstead's company has the right to an exclusive license.
Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.
Second, we will establish a partnership on aviation screening technology between DHS and the Department of Energy and its national laboratories.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change said the development of CCS technology, if developed at scale, could allow the safe removal and storage of harmful carbon emissions from coal and gas plants.
Sean Plasynski is the sequestration technology manager at the U.S. Department of Energy.
The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.
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