| The Energy Department on November 14 announced $425 million for two new high performance computing (HPC) awards to put the nation on a fast-track to next generation exascale computing. The Department will use $325 million from its Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build two state-of-the-art supercomputers at the Department’s Oak Ridge (ORNL) and Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) national laboratories. A joint collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, referred to as CORAL, was established in early 2014 to leverage supercomputing investments, streamline procurement processes, and reduce costs to develop supercomputers that will be five to seven times more powerful when fully deployed than today’s fastest systems in the United States. ORNL’s new system, Summit, is expected to provide at least five times the performance of ORNL’s current leadering system, Titan. LLNL’s new supercomputer, Sierra, is expected to be at least seven times more powerful than LLNL’s current machine, Sequoia. Argonne National Laboratory will announce its CORAL award at a later time. In addition, the Department announced approximately $100 million to further develop extreme scale supercomputing technologies as part of a research and development program titled FastForward 2. The joint project between the Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration will be led by AMD, Cray, IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA. See the Energy Department news release.   The Energy Department on November 13 announced a $5 million funding opportunity that includes support to develop and demonstrate new residential energy efficiency solutions. The funding will also help research into building energy efficiency at universities and colleges. The Energy Department will provide $4 million to support the demonstration of high-impact energy efficiency technologies and practices that can produce 50% energy savings in new homes by 2025 and 40% energy savings in existing homes by 2030. Provided through the Department’s Building America program, the $4 million in funding will help U.S. homeowners save as much as $12 billion a year by supporting the development of energy-saving measures. The Energy Department will also award $1 million to American universities to fund student teams that will work in partnership with industry to develop energy efficiency technologies. The Energy Department will use its annual Buildings University Innovators and Leaders Development funding opportunity to support student teams that will, in partnership with industry, develop technologies, software, or manufacturing processes with direct applications to residential, multi-family, and commercial buildings in the United States. See the Energy Department news release. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on November 17 announced that it has offered a right-of-way grant to Deepwater Wind for the Block Island Transmission System off of Rhode Island to transmit offshore wind energy. Deepwater Wind’s proposed project would install a bi-directional submerged transmission cable between Block Island and the Rhode Island mainland. The transmission system would serve two purposes: to connect Deepwater Wind’s proposed 30 megawatt Block Island Wind Farm about 2.5 nautical miles southeast of Block Island to the Rhode Island mainland, and to transmit power from the existing onshore transmission grid on the mainland to Block Island. The right-of-way corridor, which is about eight nautical miles long and 200 feet wide, comprises the portion of the transmission line that crosses federal waters. See the DOI new release. New York State on November 12 announced $206 million in awards to four large-scale clean energy projects, including two large wind energy farms, a large new hydroelectric project and a small hydroelectric upgrade to an existing dam. All four projects will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resiliency of New York’s energy infrastructure. Once operational, the four projects will add approximately 164 megawatts of new renewable capacity, which will provide about 450,000 megawatt-hours per year of clean renewable energy to New York—enough energy to supply more than 60,000 average-sized homes per year. See the New York news release. | 
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