WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Aug. 1, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium-a $20 million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. CdTe solar cells were first developed in the United States and are the second-most common photovoltaic technology in the worl  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has announced up to $6 million available for research and development (R&D) projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for products that can be employed in clean energy technologies such as batteries and advanced manufacturing. Expanding innovative uses for coal and coal wastes has th  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Steve Cowley, PPPL's director, were featured on the July 23 "CBS Saturday Morning" show in a segment entitled "Inside an Experimental Fusion Energy Laboratory." You can view the segment on the CBS News site. In the segment, CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor takes a tour of PPPL and visits the National   more