Can you imagine your life without energy? Without electricity? Picture going on a full day without power, no lights, no water supply, no air-conditioning, no computers, no internet connection, no nothing. Seems pretty bleak, doesn't it?
That's how essential energy is to the human race. And without us even realizing it, it has become a huge part of our day to day existence. There are so many types of energy, mechanical, chemical, solar, kinetic, nuclear, etc., each of them just as important as the other one.
Protecting the integrity of these energy sources, much less nurturing them and improving them for continued use, is and has never been an easy feat. The United States government is aware that the country would practically fail to function without energy, and for this reason, along with many others, it has established several federal agencies that are tasked specifically to ensure that the United States of America will never have to know what it feels like to not have power.
First up is the United States Department of Energy, otherwise referred to as DOE. The agency was primarily established to handle all of the country's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production concerns.
The mission of the agency is to "ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions".
Meanwhile, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, more commonly known as the NETL, is a science, technology, and energy laboratory owned and operated by the DOE.
It seeks to achieve and support the DOE by administering grant programs such as the Advanced Computational and Modeling Research for the Electric Power System Project, which seeks to leverage scientific advancements in mathematics and computation for application to power system models and software tools, taking into careful consideration the long-term goal of enabling real-time protection and control based on wide-area sensor measurements.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, also called EERE, is an another agency operating within the Department of Energy that's tasked to oversee high-risk, high-value research and development in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
That's how essential energy is to the human race. And without us even realizing it, it has become a huge part of our day to day existence. There are so many types of energy, mechanical, chemical, solar, kinetic, nuclear, etc., each of them just as important as the other one.
Protecting the integrity of these energy sources, much less nurturing them and improving them for continued use, is and has never been an easy feat. The United States government is aware that the country would practically fail to function without energy, and for this reason, along with many others, it has established several federal agencies that are tasked specifically to ensure that the United States of America will never have to know what it feels like to not have power.
First up is the United States Department of Energy, otherwise referred to as DOE. The agency was primarily established to handle all of the country's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production concerns.
The mission of the agency is to "ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions".
Meanwhile, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, more commonly known as the NETL, is a science, technology, and energy laboratory owned and operated by the DOE.
It seeks to achieve and support the DOE by administering grant programs such as the Advanced Computational and Modeling Research for the Electric Power System Project, which seeks to leverage scientific advancements in mathematics and computation for application to power system models and software tools, taking into careful consideration the long-term goal of enabling real-time protection and control based on wide-area sensor measurements.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, also called EERE, is an another agency operating within the Department of Energy that's tasked to oversee high-risk, high-value research and development in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.