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A lithium manufacturer opens two facilities, creating 100 new jobs and dramatically increasing U.S. lithium production capacity.

Solar and wind power provide the means for America to strengthen its energy security, create jobs in growing markets, and improve the environment. Thanks to breakthroughs in energy storage systems, including the first grid-tied solar and storage facility, that potential is getting closer to reality.

A new kind of thyristor – an electronic switch – has the potential to change the landscape for power control and conversion.
 And it's thanks to a partnership between the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and GeneSiC Semiconductor that this technology is now on the market. Learn more.

In the U.S., businesses tend to invest in research that will pay off in the short term. National laboratories are filling a gap by conducting the essential research that will change the game 10 to 20 years down the road. Learn more about how years of conducting advanced research in both the private and public sectors led to battery technology that made electric cars possible.

If these glass microspheres' walls could talk…They would explain how their tiny pores allow the potential for handling, storing and transporting a variety of materials, including drugs that have targeted delivery and hydrogen.

LLNL’s pilot electromechanical battery/flywheel and electrostatic (ES) generator/motor technologies will reduce the plant’s electrical bills by 50 percent and provide sustainable and energy efficient solutions for the nonprofit.

Utilities rise to Energy Department Assistant Secretary Patricia Hoffman's challenge to find ways to enable customers to participate more fully in their electric system.

Beacon Power in New York is using innovative flywheel technology to manage and store energy better -- it continuously absorbs and injects electricity.

Recovery Act funding is helping Sprint Nextel Corp. take advantage of improved hydrogen fuel cell technology to provide back-up power for its cell towers.

How does an energy storage plant recycle energy? Find out how flywheels are expanding the capacity for renewable energy sources.

Jonathan Silver and Matt Rogers on a major breakthrough for New York state's energy storage capacity.

While outstanding performances in film were being honored at this year’s Academy Awards, some engineers and businesses were focused on a different performance — that of a lighting system illuminating the famed red carpet.