Monday, March 24, 2014
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: President Obama's Climate Action Plan Joshua D. Mo...
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: President Obama's Climate Action Plan Joshua D. Mo...: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN “We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, bu...
President Obama's Climate Action Plan Joshua D. Mosshart/Joshua Mosshart
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise.
That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our croplands and snow-capped peaks.
That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.”
-- President Obama, Second Inaugural Address, January 2013
Washington has a commitment for direct investment into clean energy to fight emissions and support national security initiatives.
The administration is implementing a number of new efforts in the following areas:
1. Accelerating Clean Energy Permitting.
2. Expanding and Modernizing the Electric Grid.
3. Unlocking Investment in Clean Energy Innovation.
4. Spurring Investment in Advanced Fossil Energy Projects.
5. Increasing Fuel Economy Standards.
6. Development and Deployment of Advanced Transportation Technologies.
7. Establish a Goal for Energy Efficiency Standards.
8. Reducing Barriers to Investment in Energy Efficiency.
9. Leading in Clean Energy.
Leading Global Sector Public Financing Towards Cleaner Energy: Under this Administration, the United States has successfully mobilized billions of dollars for clean energy investments in developing countries, helping to accelerate their transition to a green, low-carbon economy.
Source: Executive Office of the President
Monday, March 10, 2014
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: White House Capital-Clean Energy Initiative- Joshu...
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: White House Capital-Clean Energy Initiative- Joshu...: President Obama doubled energy generation from wins, solar and geothermal sources. The United States government wants to ensure America...
White House Capital-Clean Energy Initiative- Joshua D. Mosshart/Joshua Mosshart
President Obama doubled energy generation from wins, solar and geothermal sources. The United States government wants to ensure America's continued leadership position in clean energy. President Obama's goal is to again double the renewable electricity generation by 2020. The Fiscal Year 2014 Budget President Obama increased funding for clean energy technology across all Federal agencies by 30%, to approximately $7.9 billion.
Washington is making investments in energy technologies ranging from bio-fuels and emerging nuclear technologies-small modular reactors to clean coal. The Department of Energy (DOE) facilitates many of President Obama's highest priorities, including cutting carbon pollution and supporting clean energy technology, which is essential to job creation, long-term economic growth, and national security.
The Fiscal Year 2014 Budget for the DOE is $28.4 billion in discretionary funds to support investing in research and development (R&D) which is critical to leading the clean energy and advanced manufacturing.
Funding will be deployed to the next generation of advanced vehicles, advanced bio-fuels, bio-refineries, renewable power, such as solar, off-shore wind, nuclear energy, carbon capture, energy storage, fusion, emerging battery technologies, advanced manufacturing activities to help reduce energy use and transformative energy research.
Here is an example of a large grant coming out of the administration validating President Obama quote "Bypassing legistlation" to achieve his goals.
Highlights in the FY 2014 budget include:
$5 billion for the Office of Science for basic research to lay the foundation of innovation, long-term economic growth, and competitiveness;$615 million to increase use and decrease costs of clean power from solar, wind, geothermal, and water energy;
$282 million in next generation of advanced biofuels research;
$365 million in advanced manufacturing research and development to strengthen U.S. competiveness and enable companies to improve product quality and manufacturing processes while cutting production costs;
Ends $4 billion of unwanted and unnecessary subsidies to the oil and gas industries;
$147 million in research and development of smart grid investments, cybersecurity for energy control systems, and National Electricity Delivery within the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability; and
$80 million for advanced technologies and tools that improve clean energy integration into the grid.
Source: DOE
U.S. Dept. of Energy grants $226 million to small reactor startup NuScale
Alternative nuclear rolled ahead a bit this week, as the U.S. DOE agreed to fund NuScale’s small modular reactor, transportable on the back of a truck.
The U.S. Department of Energy has taken another “small” step toward shaking the nuclear industry out of its uninvented ways and towards innovative reactors that lower costs and improved operations and safety for a low CO2 future: It has granted up to $226 million in funding to an Oregon start up that is developing a “small modular reactor.”
The award to Corvallis, Oregon-based NuScale Power marks the second tranche of a $452 million program that DOE announced in March 2012.
Posted by Mark Halper
Joshua D. Mosshart BIO
Cleantech Grants
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: INVESTING FOR SECURITY AND PROSPERITY
Bioenergy Funding Strategy Brief: INVESTING FOR SECURITY AND PROSPERITY: The U.S. is in a global competition to capture the clean energy technology jobs of the 21st century. In March, 2013, President Obama...
INVESTING FOR SECURITY AND PROSPERITY-Joshua D. Mosshart
The U.S. is in a global competition to capture the clean energy technology jobs of the 21st century.
In March, 2013, President Obama Updated his "Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future" Blueprint and laid out the investment strategy for his " all-of-the-above" approach to develop every source of American energy in a safe and responsible way-investing in clean energy technologies and expanding oil and gas production.
Presidents Obama's Goals:
Reducing our overall dependence on oil by more than 2 million barrels a day by 2025, and reducing oil imports in half by 2020.
Doubling renewable electricity production from wind, solar and geothermal by 2020.
Doubling energy productivity by 2030.
The President's 2014 Budget provides for $28.4 billion in discretionary funds for DOE to support its mission.
These investments will support the President's goal to increase Americas competitiveness and reduce our reliance on oil by making strategic investments in critical research and technology sectors for clean energy and to make significant national security advances to leave future generations with a country that is safer, healthier, and more prosperous.
“After years of talking about it, we’re finally poised to take control of our energy future. We produce more oil than we have in 15 years. We import less oil than we have in 20 years. We’ve doubled the amount of renewable energy that we generate from sources like wind and solar -- with tens of thousands of good jobs to show for it.
We’re producing more natural gas than we ever have before -- with hundreds of thousands ofgood jobs to show for it. We supported the first new nuclear power plant in America since the 1970s. And we’re sending less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years.”
– President Obama, March 15, Argonne National Laboratory
Source: DOE Budget Highlights
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