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OPEC Revenues Lowest Since 2004

Economic and geopolitical factors both contributed to the decline.

Depicted here is an electric furnace at Kowalski Heat Treating of Cleveland, Ohio. The industrial firm underwent an energy efficiency retrofit through Ohio’s Energy Efficiency Program for Manufacturers.

Efficiency Protects Manufacturing Jobs

The Energy Department is facilitating the manufacturing sector’s move toward energy efficiency in the Rust Belt and beyond.

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Increasingly Self-Sufficient Fuel Production

The development of Canadian oil sands and the emergence of crude oil in the U.S. has provided refiners with access to a lower-priced crude supply.

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Wind Energy Capacity Surpasses Hydroelectric

Wind has surpassed conventional hydroelectric generating capacity, long the nation’s largest source of renewable electricity.

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Number of TVs Declining

Televisions and peripheral equipment such as cable boxes, DVRs and video game consoles account for about six percent of all electricity used.

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Uranium Hits 12-Year Low

Most of the uranium loaded into U.S. nuclear power reactors is now imported from Canada and Kazakhstan, although seven U.S facilities produced 57 million pounds in 2015.

The future of scientific computing, illustrated.

How Will We Deal With Too Much Big Data?

A decade from now, computing resources may have a hard time keeping up with the slew of data.

In 2013, electricity accounted for approximately 40% of primary energy consumption in the United States and manufacturing was responsible for more than a quarter of end‐use. Electric motor‐driven systems used 68% of this total electricity for essential energy intensive industrial processes such as refrigeration, pumps, fans, compressors, materials handling, materials processing, and facility HVAC systems.

DOE Announces $25M for Electrical Motors

This effort could significantly improve industrial electric motor technology.

The largest model-scale wave energy testing of its kind is being performed by Sandia National Laboratories at the Navy's Maneuvering and Sea Keeping facility at the Carderock Division in Bethesda, Maryland.

Largeste Wave Energy Testing

The project is taking place in one of the largest wave tanks in the world. It holds 12 million gallons of water.

President Barack Obama, President Xi Jinping of China and United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon exchange greetings at the conclusion of a climate event at West Lake State House in Hangzhou, China, Sept. 3, 2016.

U.S. & China to Cut Emissions

The savings on utility bills created through the facility upgrades will be used to pay for the projects over the terms of the contracts.

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$1.2M to Improve Manufacturing Processes

Department of Energy investment will advance national lab partnerships with manufacturing leaders.

Edison is a Cray XC30 supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). It has a peak performance of 2.57 petaflops/sec, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory, and 7.56 petabytes of disk.

$3M for Manufacturers to Use Computing

The program leverages supercomputers at national labs to accelerate advanced manufacturing in America.