President Obama released his Administration’s 2011 budget request on Tuesday, and energy efficiencies’ role in the United States’ energy policy is increasing. According to the President’s budget proposal, the DOE will be appointed around 28.4 Billion, which is $2 Billion more than what has been slated for 2010. As Energy Secretary Steven Chu expressed, “This budget supports new approaches to energy research and invests in the next generation of scientists and engineers, and it will spark clean energy projects nationwide.”

Highlights per the Office of Management and Budget website on the Energy Department’s 2011 budget allocation:

• $4.7 Billion in clean energy technology investments at DOE, including:
• Nearly $2.4 Billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
• $300 Million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy to accelerate game-changing energy technologies in need of rapid and flexible experimentation or engineering.
• $793 Million for clean energy activities, including R&D and infrastructure programs.
• $5.1 Billion for the Office of Science, including $1.8 Billion for basic energy sciences to discover novel ways to produce, store, and use energy.
• Double newable energy generating capicity by 2012.
• Assist in the development and deployment of advanced battery manufacturing capacity to support 500,000 hybrid electric vehicles a year by 2015.
• Retrofits for 1.1 Million housing units through 2011.

Obama on the 2011 energy allocations, “We will build on the largest investment in clean energy history, as well as increase investment in scientific research so that we are fostering the industries and jobs of the future.”

The United States’ energy policy is finally moving in the right direction under the Obama Administration.

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