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