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1.	Guide to Durable Attics This fact sheet provides information on how to prevent moisture, properly insulate, and provide adequate ventilation in your attic.  Details Bookmark & Share

2.	Guide to Home Heating and Cooling Get the most out of your heating and cooling systems, including types, how to choose, and performing maintenance.   Details Bookmark & Share

3.	Guide to Home Landscaping How to use simple landscaping methods to create shade in the summer, or block wind in the winter, to help cut heating and cooling bills.  Details Bookmark & Share

4.	Guide to Kitchen Appliances This fact sheet tells you how to buy and maintain energy-efficient kitchen appliances, including refrigerators, freezers, and dishwashers, to save energy and money.  Details Bookmark & Share

5.	Guide to Home Insulation How to use insulation to make your home more comfortable and energy efficient, and reduce heating and cooling bills.  Details Bookmark & Share

6.	Guide to Air Sealing Air sealing is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve the comfort and energy efficiency of your home. Hire a certified professional contractor for best results.  Details Bookmark & Share

7.	Guide to Cool Roofs Traditional dark-colored roofing materials absorb sunlight, making them warm in the sun and increasing the need for air conditioning. White or special "cool color" roofs absorb less sunlight, stay co  Details Bookmark & Share

8.	Guide to Geothermal Heat Pumps Geothermal heat pumps, also known as ground source heat pumps, geoexchange, water-source, earth-coupled, and earth energy heat pumps, take advantage of this resource and represent one of the most eff  Details Bookmark & Share

9.	Guide to Home Energy Assessments A proper home energy assessment (also called a home energy audit) will tell you how much energy you use in your house, the most cost-effective measures you can take to improve the energy efficiency of  Details Bookmark & Share

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Power to the Plug: An Introduction to Energy, Electricity, Consumption and Efficiency The NEED Project and the U.S. Department of Energy have collaborated to bring you this educational four-page guide to energy, electricity, consumption and efficiency. It includes, on the last page, a   Details Bookmark & Share

11.	Energy-Saving Homes, Buildings, & Manufacturing This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in saving energy in homes, buildings, and industrial plants.  Details Bookmark & Share

12.	Renewable Electricity Generation This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in renewable electricity generation technologies including solar, water, wind, and geothermal.  Details Bookmark & Share

13.	Sustainable Transportation This document highlights DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's advancements in transportation technologies, alternative fuels, and fuel cell technologies.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Commit to Efficiency: The Federal Campaign to Buy Energy-Efficient Products Every year, more efficient-product purchases could save the Federal Government almost a half billion dollars’ worth of energy. In these resource-constrained times, the Commit to Efficiency campaign is  Details Bookmark & Share

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Buy Energy-Efficient Products: A Guide for Federal Purchasers and Specifiers Efficient product purchases can really add up. In a single year, they could save the Federal Government almost a half billion dollars worth of energy. Every day, Federal employees and contractors ma  Details Bookmark & Share

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Laboratories for the 21st Century Best Practices: Energy Recovery in Laboratory Facilities Laboratories typically require 100% outside air for ventilation at higher rates than other commercial buildings. Minimum ventilation is typically provided at air change per hour (ACH) rates in accorda  Details Bookmark & Share

17.	NSIDC Data Center: Energy Reduction Strategies The Green Data Center Project was a successful effort to significantly reduce the energy use of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Through a full retrofit of a traditional air conditioning  Details Bookmark & Share

18.	Solar Water Heating with Low-Cost Plastic Systems Federal buildings consumed over 392,000 billion Btu of site delivered energy for buildings during FY 2007 at a total cost of $6.5 billion. Earlier data indicate that about 10% of this is used to heat   Details Bookmark & Share

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California Federal Facilities: Rate-Responsive Building Operation for Deeper Cost and Energy Savings Dynamic pricing electricity tariffs, now the default for large customers in California (peak demand of 200 kW and higher for PG&E and SCE, and 20 kW and higher for SDG&E), are providing Federal facili  Details Bookmark & Share

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California Energy Incentive Programs: An Annual Update on Key Energy Issues and Financial Opportunities for Federal Sites in California A spate of recently enacted energy legislation and associated program changes is providing numerous opportunities to help California federal energy managers cut costs and meet their renewables, energy  Details Bookmark & Share

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Guidance for the Implementation and Follow-up of Identified Energy and Water Efficiency Measures in Covered Facilities This document provides specific guidance to agencies on the implementation and follow-up of energy and water efficiency measures identified and undertaken per Section 432 of the Energy Independence an  Details Bookmark & Share

22.	Building the Clean Energy Economy, Engaging the Private Sector This packet provides a list of companies with whom EERE’s program offices collaborate. Below is a list of EERE’s program managers and their contact information should you or your organization be inte  Details Bookmark & Share

23.	U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry This report is an update to the 2005 Billion-Ton Study that addresses shotcomings and questions that arose from the original report..  Details Bookmark & Share

24.	Clean Cities Now Vol. 15, No. 2 Clean Cities Now features news and articles about Clean Cities coalition activities in promoting the reduction in the use of petroleum transportation fuel. The October 2011 issue features stories abou  Details Bookmark & Share

25.	Innovation Ecosystem Development Initative This fact sheet is an overview of the Department of Energy's Innovation Ecosystem Development Initiative.  Details Bookmark & Share

26.	U.S. Department of Energy National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition This fact sheet is an overview of the U.S. Department of Energy National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition.  Details Bookmark & Share

27.	Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 An Act passed in 2007 to move the United States toward greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers, to increase the efficiency o  Details Bookmark & Share

28.	Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future President Obama's March 2011 framework that addresses the need for reducing dependence on foreign oil and taking control of our energy future by harnessing all of the resources that we have available   Details Bookmark & Share

29.	FY12 Biomass Program Congressional Budget Request FY12 budget and funding for the Biomass Program biomass and biorefinery systems research development and deployment.  Details Bookmark & Share

30.	Department of Energy FY 2012 Congressional Budget Request The Department of Energy Congressional Budget Request for fiscal year 2012. This includes all programs and sub-programs within the Department.  Details Bookmark & Share

31.	Biomass Program Overview: Growing America's Energy Future This fact sheet is an overview of the Department of Energy's Biomass Program.  Details Bookmark & Share

32.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Sustainability This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Sustainability Platform Review  Details Bookmark & Share

33.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Infrastructure This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Infrastructure Platform Review  Details Bookmark & Share

34.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Integrated Biorefineries This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s IBR Platform Review meeting.  Details Bookmark & Share

35.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Feedstock This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Feedstock Platform Review meet  Details Bookmark & Share

36.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Biochemical Conversion This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Biochemical Conversion Platfor  Details Bookmark & Share

37.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Analysis This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Analysis Platform Review meeti  Details Bookmark & Share

38.	2011 Biomass Program Platform Peer Review: Algae This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Algae Platform Review meeting.  Details Bookmark & Share

39.	2011 Biomass Program Peer Review This document summarizes the recommendations and evaluations provided by an independent external panel of experts at the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program’s Peer Review meeting.  Details Bookmark & Share

40.	Biomass Program Multi-Year Program Plan - April 2012 This Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP) sets forth the goals and structure of the Biomass Program. It identifies the research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) activities the Program wil  Details Bookmark & Share

41.	Clean Cities Now Vol. 16.1 Biannual newsletter for the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities initiative. The newsletter includes feature stories on advanced vehicle deployment, idle reduction, and articles on Clean Cities co  Details Bookmark & Share

42.	L Prize® Drives Technology Innovation, Energy Savings A factsheet explaining DOE's L Prize competition  Details Bookmark & Share

43.	Ahorro Energía: Consejos sobre cómo ahorrar dinero y energía en su casa (Spanish Brochure), Energy Savers Guide The Spanish-language version of U.S. Department of Energy's consumer guide to saving energy and money at home and on the road.  Details Bookmark & Share

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Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education Energy Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Energy Education presents energy concepts that, if understood and applied, will help individuals and communities make informed energy  Details Bookmark & Share

45.	Biomass Cookstoves Technical Meeting: Summary Report In regions where biomass is a traditional fuel for cooking, improved cookstoves can enhance indoor air quality, personal health, livelihoods, and the environment—while substantially reducing greenhous  Details Bookmark & Share

46.	Biomass Multi-Year Program Plan The Biomass Program is one of the nine technology development programs within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This Multi-Year Progra  Details Bookmark & Share

47.	Monitoring EERE's Recovery Act Portfolio Performance monitoring of Recovery Act projects within EERE has been an ongoing effort. Project recipients have been reporting technical and financial progress to project officers on a quarterly basis  Details Bookmark & Share

48.	Guide to Renewable Energy Provides information on installing geothermal heat pumps, solar systems, and wind turbines to save energy and utility costs.  Details Bookmark & Share

49.	Guide to Energy-Efficient Lighting A fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Lighting accounts for about 15% of an average home’s electricity use, so it pays to make energy-effi  Details Bookmark & Share

50.	Guide to Home Ventilation A fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Ventilation refers to the exchange of indoor and outdoor air. Without proper ventilation, an otherwi  Details Bookmark & Share