DOE Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative: Rust Turns Green?

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that it has launched a "Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative." This is a combined effort of the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy and DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office. The initiative has the two pronged objective of increasing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness (1) in the production of clean energy products, and (2) by increasing energy productivity.

As an example of the first objective, the initiative was announced at the ribbon cutting ceremony for a brand new state-of¬-the-art Carbon Fiber Technology Facility that is designed to provide a test bed for the development of materials and manufacturing processes.