Provides direct loans to automotive or component manufacturers for reequipping, expanding, or establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S. that produce fuel-efficient advanced technology vehicles or qualifying components.
The DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office supports research in a variety of fields relating to electric and hybrid vehicles, including applied battery research.
Although it was repealed by the Trump Administration, in January 2017 the Federal Highway Administration briefly published a final rule (82 Fed. Reg. 5970) requiring state and regional planning agencies to track carbon emissions from vehicles.
Report on government efforts to undertake deep energy retrofits using energy services performance contracts with outside contractors. The report highlights eight case studies, projects totaling $238M investment across different levels of government.
Designed to measure and track energy and water consumption, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, for either one or a whole portfolio of buildings.
Offers information and resources on transitioning to net zero buildings.
Lays out tools and benchmarks by which to build homes “so energy efficient, that a renewable energy system can offset all or most of [their] annual energy consumption.”
Providing an overview of current policy measures worldwide, and noting drivers for the development and implementation of low power enabling technologies and efficient network-connected products and systems.
A study in the best practices of clothes dryer energy efficiency testing, focusing on improvements in DOE’s testing methodology.