Articles by Jodi Delapaz

In 2009, the Energy Department (DOE) and industry partners launched an initiative, SuperTruck I, to improve the efficiency of Class 8 vehicles. Class 8 vehicles, or heavy-duty tractor trailers, haul about 80 percent of the goods that fill our stores

A Pika Energy 1.5-kilowatt (kW) wind turbine manufactured in Maine is the newest addition to the Energy Department s D.C. headquarters  showcase of scientific and technical progress.

The total revenue for the U.S. advanced energy market hit $200 billion in 2015, according to Advanced Energy Economy s Advanced Energy Now 2016 Market Report. According to AEE, the total revenue for global advanced energy was a record $1.4 trillion in 2015,

Solar surpassed natural gas capacity additions for the first time in 2015, with solar installing 7.3 gigawatts (GW) and supplying 29.5 percent of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S., according to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association

The USDA Chief Scientist Catherine Woteki announced the release of the Federal Activities Report on the Bioeconomy. The report was developed to inform Americans of current federal agency activities working to develop and support the bioeconomy, an emerging segment of the U.S&

- A researcher at the University of Missouri finds that students who attend school in buildings specifically designed to be green exhibit higher levels of knowledge about energy efficiency and environmentally friendly building practices, which, in the future, may lead the

The U.S., Canada and Mexico have launched a website to share energy information in North America. The collaboration grew out of a December 2014 memorandum of understanding among the three countries to create an institutional framework to share publicly available materials to improv

According to a new study from Dodge Data & Analytics World Green Building Trends 2016, Developing Markets Accelerate Global Green Growth the percentage of companies that expect to have more than 60 percent of their building projects certified green is anticipated to more than d

Space weather can significantly impact electric power systems on Earth, sometimes knocking out power for millions of people for extended periods of time. On March 9, 1989, a coronal mass ejection (CME) set off a chain of events

- The Energy Department (DOE) recently announced that 10 private companies would be awarded $30 million and granted access to high-performance computing resources housed in its national laboratories to address major manufacturing challenges, such as improving turbine blades