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Nation’s Green Czar Withdraws Nomination for Top Energy Post

By : Sustainability ..., May 25, 2012

Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, will be leaving his White House post June 9.

Majumdar has served as ARPA-E’s director since 2009. APRA-E, created in 2007, was charged with finding and funding “out of the box” innovative...

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Technology for a greener future

By : Anonymous, Mar 26, 2012

After eight months of pottering about in the lab, 22-year-old Nandan Kulkarni tasted sweet success when he managed to develop a technology that uses sugar bagasse – a waste product from sugar mills - to generate electricity. “The technology does not require any costly...

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DOE Announces Funding for U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center

By : sustainabilityo..., May 17, 2011

As part of the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy announced by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh of India last November, the Department of Energy has committed $25 million over the next five years to support the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development...

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US closes $1.4 billion electric car loan with Nissan

By : sustainabilityo..., Jan 29, 2010

The US government closed a $1.4 billon loan agreement with Nissan to help retool a factory in Tennessee to build up to 150,000 all-electric automobiles a year and the battery packs to power them, the Energy Department said on Thursday.

"This is an investment in our...

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