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energy R and D with other federal programs, policies, incentives, standards, and
mandates that can impact the nation's energy portfolio will be important for
targeting any desired goals to change the nation's energy portfolio. In addition,
state and local governments and other nations, along with a worldwide private
sector, will play a role in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies
both here and throughout the global energy market. A key factor to any
sustainable deployment of advanced energy technologies will be to make them
cost competitive, while addressing technical and environmental challenges, so that
the market can support a more diversified portfolio. Otherwise, without sustained
higher energy prices for our current portfolio, or concerted, high-profile federal
government leadership, U.S. consumers are unlikely to change their energy-use
patterns, and the U.S. energy portfolio will not significantly change.
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PPENDIX
I:
C
OMPARISON OF
DOE'
S
F
ISCAL
Y
EAR
2008
A
PPROPRIATIONS WITH
I
TS
F
ISCAL
Y
EAR
2009
B
UDGET
R
EQUEST
(Millions of dollars)
Fiscal year
2008
appropriation
Program
Fiscal year 2009
budget request
Percentage
change
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy
a
Biomass and Biorefinery Systems
$198.2
$225.0
14
Solar
168.5
156.1
(7)
Wind
49.5
52.5
6
Geothermal
19.8
30.0
51
Water Power
9.9
3.0
(70)
Hydrogen Technology (Hydrogen Fuel
Initiative)
b
94.5
66.9
(29)
Subtotal
$540.4
$533.5
(1)
Fossil Energy
Oil
5.0
0.0
(100)
Natural gas
19.8
0.0
(100)
Coal
Clean Coal Power Initiative
69.4
85.0
22
FutureGen
74.3
156.0
110
Fuels and Power Systems
324.9
372.7
15
Fuels (Hydrogen Fuel Initiative)
b
24.8
10.0
(60)
Clean Coal Technology
(58.0)
0
(100)
Cooperative R and D
5.0
0
(100)
Subtotal
$465.2
$623.7
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