Sentences with phrase «biggest new research initiative»

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Late last week, Congress summarily slapped down the Department of Energy's biggest new research initiative: A plan for eight new research «hubs» aimed at solving the nation's energy problems.