Department of Energy News

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden will test a fleet of advanced vehicles for research-and-development purposes, it was reported Friday.

The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, ...

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle is test driving some of the alternative fuel vehicles to be evaluated at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.

Mesa County sheriff's deputies are investigating the discovery of a body near a Department of Energy compound on Orchard Mesa.

RIFLE, Colorado - Three members of Colorado's congressional delegation have asked the U.S. Department of the Interior to exclude lands on the Roan Plateau from an upcoming lease sale.

Everywhere you look these days, you see billionaire oil magnate T. Boone Pickens promoting wind power as the answer to America's energy problems.

The United States and New Zealand committed to a plant that helps develop clean energy on island nations and territories, a U.S. official said Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Energy says a team from the Idaho National Laboratory has been selected to devise a process to generate energy while destroying plutonium and other radioactive material from spent nuclear ...

Thu, Jul 25, 1991 A twin-engine helicopter crashed in a remote and rugged area of the Nevada Test Site, killing the five-man crew.

Cutting down on driving or buying a new hybrid car is simply not an option for everyone, so companies like Tire Kingdom, Merchant's Tire and NTB have created fuel saving packages that follow the Federal Trade ...

Gov. Linda Lingle burned fuel in the short term to try to increase Hawaii's power alternatives in the long term as she headed Tuesday for energy summits in the Bahamas and Colorado.

DuPont Co. has joined a state initiative to build the first pilot-scale biorefinery in the U.S. that would take corncobs and switchgrass grown on Tennessee farms and convert the biomass into ethanol for fuel.

The Department of Energy has scheduled a meeting Wednesday on Rattlesnake Mountain and the eligibility of the federal portion of the mountain to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Radoslav Adzic, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has received a 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, which recognizes him for his "outstanding contributions in ...

The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility , located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability ...

Under the STM tip a flake of graphene 50 microns long rests on a substrate of silicon with a thin layer of silicon dioxide insulation .

The U.S. Department of Energy is making new efforts to attract entrepreneurs at early stages to commercialize renewable energy concepts, a DOE official said at the inaugural Nano Renewable Energy Summit on ...

The lithium-ion battery, already a fixture in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to high oil prices and environmental concerns as it bulks up to power rechargeable electric vehicles, ...

Studies are showing states requiring ethanol in their gasoline mix are saving consumers money at the pump.

Its gray and black walls stretching to infinity, Latin America's largest coal mine resembles a miniature Grand Canyon.