Sentences with phrase «energy research programs»

Compare the number of proprietary pharmaceutical research programs in this country to the number of renewable energy research programs, and you start wondering exactly what is going on.

An amendment to add $ 10 million to the solar energy research program passed, however, by a close vote of 212 - 210.

In addition to science, it oversees fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy research programs and electrical grid and technology transfer issues.

What they found was an office beset by problems and violating much of the wisdom about how to effectively run an applied energy research program.

The Fossil Energy Research program conducts research on nascent carbon capture and storage technology in addition to oil and gas drilling technology, including fracking.

Mulvaney once attempted to cut DOE science and energy research programs by 24 percent.

Lawmakers rejected cuts proposed by the White House to domestic fusion energy research programs, and a Senate proposal to cancel funding for the ITER fusion project under construction in France.

Elsewhere, the plan would trim spending on nuclear energy research programs somewhat, proposing $ 762 million, compared with $ 792 million in current year spending.

Part of the larger «energy concept» that Merkel's government announced yesterday is the promise of an expanded energy research program, to be unveiled later this year, that will set priorities for research through 2020.

The entire shale fracking endeavor began as a somewhat quixotic, patriotic ambition within fledgling federal energy research programs.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry goes before the U.S. Senate tomorrow to explain how he would run the Department of Energy (DOE), which manages the nation's nuclear arsenal, a network of 17 national laboratories, and a vast array of basic and applied energy research programs.

The blueprint is vague on the administration's plans for the DOE's renewable energy and energy efficiency office and its Fossil Energy Research program, saying only that funding for those programs will be focused on «early - stage applied energy research.»

Despite the assault on renewable energy currently in vogue in Washington, DC, wind power continues to enjoy support from the federal government, including $ 100 million for renewable energy research programs to be funded by ARPA - E in the next year.