{"id":112444,"date":"2009-12-29T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2009-12-29T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:33:13","slug":"doe-to-invest-366-million-in-energy-innovation-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112444","title":{"rendered":"DOE to invest $366 million in energy innovation hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating R&amp;D in three key energy areas. Each hub, to be funded at up to $122 million over five years, will bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to shorten the path from scientific discovery to technological development and commercial deployment of highly promising energy-related technologies. &#8220;Given the urgency of our challenges in both energy and climate, we need to do everything we can to mobilize our nation&#8217;s scientific and technological talent to accelerate the pace of innovation,&#8221; says DOE Secretary Steven Chu.<\/p>\n<p>The hubs are part of a broad-based clean energy research strategy that includes three complementary initiatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Energy Frontier Research Centers launched by the DOE&#8217;s Office of Science will support multi-year, multi-investigator scientific collaborations focused on overcoming hurdles in basic science that block transformational discoveries.\n<\/li>\n<li>The department&#8217;s recently formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (&#8221;ARPA-E&#8221;) will use an entrepreneurial funding model to explore potentially transformative technologies.\n<\/li>\n<li>The Energy Innovation Hubs will establish larger, highly integrated teams to conduct high-risk, high-reward research and seek to solve priority technology challenges from basic research to engineering development to commercialization readiness. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three DOE Energy Innovation Hubs will focus on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>production of fuels directly from sunlight;<\/li>\n<li>improvement of energy-efficient building systems design; and\n <\/li>\n<li>computer modeling and simulation for the development of advanced nuclear reactors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DOE will provide $22 million in the first year to establish each hub and up to $25 million per year for the following four years to support operations. Information on the DOE&#8217;s hub implementation plan can be found at http:\/\/hubs.energy.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanolproducer.com\/article.jsp?article_id=6234\" >Ethanol Producer Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating R&amp;D in three key energy areas. Each hub, to be funded at up to $122 million over five years, will bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to shorten the path from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}