Department of Energy

As sustainability continues to go mainstream, industries are shifting priorities to focus on climate challenges and social impact in their strategic development plans. That’s a real opportunity for industrial hemp. Hemp has outsize potential to replace polluting raw materials in a number of industries – from textiles to building materials to high-tech applications. More importantly […]

A primer on public loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits for US clean industrial projects. Heavy industry represents 30 percent of US CO2 emissions. And while decarbonizing industry is difficult, two exciting industrial developments are now taking place in the United States that will help speed progress. The first takes the form of ambitious companies […]

The proposal would jump-start several hydrogen projects in North Dakota and Minnesota, including Xcel using renewable power to make hydrogen for a potential fertilizer plant in Morris. The allure of “clean” hydrogen as a climate change remedy is so potent that Congress ponied up $8 billion for it. Xcel Energy and the state of Minnesota […]