Power To The People: U.S. Department of Energy Podcast Number 3
How does power get to the people who use it?
In our new episode of Direct Current – An Energy.gov Podcast, we talk about one of the greatest engineering accomplishments of the 20th century — something we use every day, but often take for granted: the electric grid.
We talk to an expert about how power travels to our electric sockets, and hear about how one city — hit with major power outages during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — is preparing for the next storm with something called a microgrid.
The Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) today issued a 
As part of the Obama Administration’s Mission Innovation effort to double clean energy research and development (R&D) investments over the next five years, the Energy Department today announced up to $25 million in available funding aimed at advancing technologies for energy-efficient electric motors through applied R&D. This effort will fund innovative technologies that will significantly increase the efficiency of electric motors, which use approximately 70% of the electricity consumed by U.S. manufacturers and nearly a quarter of all electricity consumed nationally.
The Energy Department announced today up to $13.4 million for five projects to develop advanced biofuels and bioproducts that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from biomass.
