Government Grants for Alternative Energy

By: Warren Peters

In his State of the Union Address for 2007, President George W. Bush called for a 22% increase in federal grants for research and development of alternative energy. However, in a speech he gave soon after, he said to those assembled, I recognize that there has been some interesting mixed signals when it comes to funding.

Where the mixed signals were coming from concerned the fact that at the same time the President was calling on more government backing for research and development, the NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of Golden, Colorado was laying off workers and contractors left and right.

Apparently, the Laboratory got the hint, because soon after the State of the Union Address, everyone was re-hired. The second speech of the President’s was actually given at the NREL. There is almost unanimous public support for the federal backing through research grants, tax breaks, and other financial incentives of research and development of alternative energy sources.

The NREL is the nation’s leading component of the National Bioenergy Center, a virtual center that has no central bricks and mortar office. The NREL’s raison d’etre is the advancing of the US Department of Energy’s and the United States’ alternative energy objectives.

The laboratory’s field researchers and staff scientists, in the words of Laboratory Director Dan Arvizu, support critical market objectives to accelerate research from scientific innovations to market-viable solutions. At the core of this strategic direction are NREL’s research and technology development areas.

These areas span from understanding renewable resources for energy, to the conversion of these resources to renewable electricity and fuels, and ultimately to the use of renewable electricity and fuels in homes, commercial buildings, and vehicles. The federally-backed Laboratory directly helps along the United States’ objectives for discovering renewable alternative fuels for powering our economy and our lifestyles.

The NREL is set up to have several areas of expertise in energy research and development. It spearheads research and development efforts into renewable sources of electricity; these would include such things as solar power, wind power, biomass power, and geothermal power.

It also spearheads research and development of renewable fuels for powering our vehicles such as biomass and biodiesel fuels and hydrogen fuel cells. Then, it seeks to develop plans for integrated system engineering; this includes bringing alternative energy into play within buildings, electrical grids and delivery systems, and transportation infrastructures.

The Laboratory is also set up for strategic development and analysis of alternative energy objectives through the forces of economics, market analysis and planning, and alternative energy investment portfolios structuring.

The NREL is additionally equipped with a Technology Transfer Office. This Office supports laboratory scientists and engineers in the practical application of and ability to make a living from their expertise and the technologies they develop.

NREL’s research and development staff and its facilities are recognized for their remarkable prowess by private industry, which is reflected in the hundreds of collaborative projects and licensed technologies that the Laboratory now has with both public and private partners.

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7 Responses

  1. Is it possible to get funding in any way either government or Universities to help with funding an off the grid lifestyle. All areas of the Homestead will be remote and off the grid. Solar power, wind power, septic system, water purification.
    My wife and I would like to live off the grid. Document how we do this. Routine, procedures etc… We have property. and ready to go. When the money runs out in a year or so how to we continue to live remote with out funds coming in. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

    Lyle & Sonia

  2. how can I get a government grant to put solar and wind power on my home and delete a gas generator to standby for emergency. it costs us 800.00 dollars a month we just retired in January 2015 thank you for any help you can give us the fishers

  3. Turner Towers is a 15 story historical co-op apartment building near the Brooklyn Museum. If grant money were available, we would consider an alternative power source (wind or solar, or both). What options do we have? I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Co-op.

  4. What I want to do is put in a wind farm of
    approx 20 verticle axel turbines • The City
    of Desoto, Tx. Has given me an unifissial
    go ahead With rhe project • What I need to
    know is how & where to get what I need •
    I only have a BlackErry 9000 right now for
    a computer •.

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