Advanced Energy Benefits:
Secure, Clean, Affordable
Advanced energy saves money, improves air quality, and makes the energy you count on more reliable. See how.
Transportation
Electric Vehicle Batteries
Advanced electric vehicle battery packs currently provide approximately 3-4 miles of driving range per kWh, for a range of 10 to 80 miles per charge.
Propulsion Systems
By reducing fuel usage and allowing vehicles to make use of advanced fuels, advanced propulsion systems lower fuel costs and emissions, and make us more secure by reducing petroleum imports.
Vehicle Design and Materials
Higher fuel efficiency in vehicle designs and features include more aerodynamic forms and designs, advanced composites to save weight, and improved ignition, combustion, and fuel injection technologies.
Autos Go Electric
Plug-in vehicles save gas dollars, improve urban air quality, and are now hitting showroom floors – and the road.
Fuel Production
Renewable Biogas Works for Power, Heat and Fuels
When organic matter decomposes, the resulting biogas can be used in a variety of energy applications.
Ethanol and Butanol
Alcohol-based fuels derived from sugars provide substitutes for petroleum
Fuel Delivery
Investing in Natural Gas Infrastructure
To get the most out of an abundant, domestic resource, pipelines and other investments are needed.
Natural Gas Refueling Stations
Fueling stations will make natural gas a new clean transportation option.
Natural Gas Pipelines and Export Terminals
More pipeline, storage, and export capacity will get this abundant domestic resource to more markets.
Buildings
LEDs Transform Commercial Lighting
Next-generation lighting reduces energy consumption, saves operating costs, preserves resources.
ESCO Services
Reducing energy consumption and emissions without committing up-front capital
Industry
Process Control and Continuous Improvement
Sensors, modeling and other methods strengthen manufacturing, lower costs and emissions
Industrial Combined Heat and Power
By utilizing waste heat, an integrated CHP system can increase total efficiency to up to 80%
Better Electric Motors Drive Industrial Efficiency
Advances in electric motors and variable speed drives cut energy use and reduce operating costs for manufacturers.
Electric Motor Efficiency
More efficient electric motors can produce billions in savings across the United States.
Electricity Generation
Hydropower
A mature technology that provides secure, renewable, emissions-free baseload power.
Gas Turbines
Gas turbines provide flexible, efficient, affordable power that is perfectly suited to the 21st century grid.
Nuclear
A workhorse of the U.S. power generation fleet, nuclear power provides about 20% of our electricity while producing no emissions.
Marine Energy
We are just beginning to tap the vast stores of renewable energy in our oceans and rivers.
Solar Photovoltaics
With falling prices and booming markets, solar PV generates fuel- and emissions-free electricity on rooftops and in large installations.
Wind is an Advanced Energy Powerhouse
A domestic resource with no emissions and no fuel cost, wind provides a hedge against fossil fuel volatility and risk.
Wind Power
Wind power has developed into a mature industry offering cost-competitive electricity at a large scale.
Electricity Delivery and Management
New Transmission Technology Makes Connections
High voltage direct current strengthens the national power grid, carries electricity to population centers from remote locations at low cost.
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Transmission
Lower losses, less land impact, lower cost for getting power to populations
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
“Smart” meters make the grid more resilient, aid energy management, and reduce the need for peak generators
Distribution Automation
Creating a more resilient grid through automatic service restoration and remote control
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Charge-and-go equipment realizes the fuel-saving potential of EVs
Microgrids
Mini-grids provide protection from widespread failures for greater energy security
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