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"The prices of gasoline should serve as a wake-up call to all of us involved in public office, that we have got an energy security problem and a national security problem, and now is the time to deal with it in a forceful way."
-President George W. Bush
May 3, 2006
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy (EERE) are steadfast in their goal toward helping America achieve a prosperous
future where energy is clean, abundant, reliable and affordable. Tireless research and development efforts are in
place each year to search for new, dynamic and groundbreaking technologies that will in essence, cure America’s
dependence on foreign sources of energy.
In 2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) was introduced, and is the first effort of the United States government to address U.S. energy policy since the Energy Policy Act of 1992. The President’s national energy plan will encourage energy efficiency and conservation, reduce America’s dependence of foreign sources of energy, increase domestic energy production, and promote alternative and renewable energy sources.
EPAct 2005 highlights several areas that the Department of Energy will concentrate on in order to achieve some of the fore-mentioned goals. EERE will be responsible for the research, development, and implementation of the following four major focuses of this new energy policy: Energy Efficiency; Renewable Energy; Vehicles and Fuels; Hydrogen; and Ethanol and Motor Fuels.
STEAB’s Strategic Focus lies at the core of these efforts, as the Board’s legislative mandate is to advise DOE on the operation of its federal grant programs encompassing energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in general, and on the efforts of the Department relating to research and market deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
This page contains links to several EERE program offices where you learn more about the energy efficiency and renewable energy programs that are being developed at the DOE. There are also links to the DOE’s National Laboratories (http://www.energy.gov/organization/labs-techcenters.htm) where readers can learn more about the groundbreaking, alternative energy research that is currently underway.