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This powerful virtual modeling software is making huge strides in energy efficiency in coal gasification processes, and also predicting volcanic eruptions.

How President's Kennedy's 1962 "moon shot" speech is inspiring a bold path forward for solar energy in America.

NuMat Technologies from Northwestern University won $180,000 in prizes as the grand prize winner of the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.

To train and educate the future leaders of the nuclear energy field, the Energy Department is offering $47.2 million in competitive scholarships, fellowships, research projects and university research reactor upgrades.

A pilot project that will generate electricity from Maine’s ocean tides could be a game-changer for America’s tidal energy industry at-large.

In the future, installing a solar array for your home could be as easy as plugging in common household appliances.

Watch here: Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates hold a fireside chat at the 2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, where the two exchanged ideas about how small businesses and innovators can get off the ground successfully.

By 2035, EIA projects that shale gas production will rise to 13.6 trillion cubic feet. When you consider that 1 tcf of natural gas is enough to heat 15 million homes for one year, the importance of this resource to the nation becomes obvious.

The city of North Pole, Alaska, is hoping to use $100,000 in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds to improve the energy efficiency of several key city facilities.

For most people, the notion that the green gunk coating various pond and river bottoms is a potential fuel source sounds like science fiction. But the fact is, several projects sponsored by the Energy Department are actively developing various ways to turn that “green gunk”, called algae, into a renewable and sustainable transportation fuel that will help reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

Researchers at the Office of Science’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have tapped an unlikely source to help create a renewable alternative to diesel fuel.

Researchers at the Energy Department's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of the bacteria to digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize its sugars into all three types of transportation fuels -- gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.