| Industrial Technologies Program | | | | cost-competitive manner. Through 2 endeavors, the |
| "The Industrial Technologies Program with US industry | | | | FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership and the 21st |
| to improve industrial energy efficiency and | | | | Century Truck Partnership, the following goals are |
| environmental performance. The program invests in | | | | being worked towards: |
| high-risk, high-value R&D (research and development) | | | | * FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership: "...the |
| to reduce industrial energy use while stimulating | | | | development of emission and petroleum-free cars and |
| productivity and growth." This program has six key | | | | light trucks and the infrastructure to support them." |
| strategies: | | | | * 21st Century Truck Partnership: "...to safely and |
| * Focus on energy-intensive industries | | | | cost-effectively move larger volumes of freight and |
| * Use public-private partnerships to plan and implement | | | | greater numbers of passengers, while emitting little or |
| the program | | | | no pollution, with dramatic reduction in dependence on |
| * Identify Grand Challenges to dramatically improve | | | | imported oil." |
| industrial energy efficiency | | | | Weatherization & Intergovernmental |
| * Implement a balanced technology portfolio | | | | This program provides the funding and technical |
| * Perform process specific and crosscutting R&D to | | | | assistance to state and local governments, Indian |
| improve long-term energy efficiency | | | | tribes, and international agencies to enable them to |
| * Perform technology delivery activities to improve | | | | implement renewal energy and energy efficient |
| near and mid-term energy efficiency | | | | technologies. Weatherization & Intergovernmental |
| Solar Energy Technologies | | | | Program activities focus on: |
| As the name states, this program focuses on creating | | | | * Multiple Technologies |
| solar energy technologies to power the world. "Solar | | | | * Work across All Energy Market Sectors |
| energy technologies have great potential to benefit our | | | | * Partnerships |
| nation. They can diversify our energy supply, reduce | | | | * Leverage of Federal Resources |
| our dependence on imported fuels, improve the quality | | | | Wind & Hydropower Technologies |
| of the air we breathe, offset greenhouse gas | | | | The United States Department of Energy "is working |
| emissions, and stimulate our economy by creating jobs | | | | with wind industry partners to develop clean, domestic, |
| in the manufacturing and installation of solar energy | | | | innovative wind energy technologies that can compete |
| systems." Significant advances must be made in the | | | | with conventional fuel sources. DOE's Wind Energy |
| solar energy technologies of concentrating solar | | | | Program efforts have culminated in some of the |
| power, photovoltaics, and solar heating and lighting. | | | | industry's leading products today and have contributed |
| Vehicle Technologies | | | | to record-breaking industry growth." |
| "The Vehicle Technologies Program is developing | | | | "Since 1976, the US Department of Energy has |
| more energy efficient and environmentally friendly | | | | conducted hydropower research and development to |
| highway transportation technologies that will enable | | | | increase the technical, societal, and environmental |
| America to use less petroleum." One of the overall | | | | benefits of hydropower while advancing |
| purposes is to replace oil with other fuels that can be | | | | cost-competitive technologies. |
| produced in the United States in a clean and | | | | |