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OPEC Revenues Lowest Since 2004
Economic and geopolitical factors both contributed to the decline.
May 19, 2017
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.
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Efficiency Protects Manufacturing Jobs
The Energy Department is facilitating the manufacturing sector’s move toward energy efficiency in the Rust Belt and beyond.
May 1, 2017
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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.
March 9, 2017
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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.
March 6, 2017
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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.
February 16, 2017
The future of scientific computing, illustrated.
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A decade from now, computing resources may have a hard time keeping up with the slew of data.
December 9, 2016
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$1.2M to Improve Manufacturing Processes
Department of Energy investment will advance national lab partnerships with manufacturing leaders.
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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.
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$3M for Manufacturers to Use Computing
The program leverages supercomputers at national labs to accelerate advanced manufacturing in America.
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$25 Million for Industrial Energy Savings
These enabling technologies could help manufacturers cumulatively save nearly 44 terawatt-hours per year, roughly 1.6% of total U.S. electricity consumption.
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Freightliner's SuperTruck, which improved Class 8 truck efficiency by 115%.
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SuperTruck II Presents $80M to Increase Big Rig Efficiency
SuperTruck II projects will research, develop, and demonstrate technologies that improve heavy-truck freight efficiency by more than 100 percent.
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