Energy powers America's buildings and industry. Keeping the lights on and businesses running—affordably and reliably—makes our lives and work possible and our economy booming. Nearly every American building is plugged into the power grid and into a complex energy system that is shouldering ever-increasing loads and answering to a quickly changing landscape. Energy holds promise for reinvigorating America's manufacturing industry, both domestically and globally, and for creating jobs.
EERE's Buildings and Industry Office (B&I) leads investments that accelerate the energy affordability and resilience of America's buildings and industries, and that strengthen and secure America's economic competitiveness, industrial base and domestic supply chains.
B&I delivers on these priorities with three technology offices as well as DOE's flagship partnership program. Collectively, the office invests $800 million annually in research and development (R&D) across U.S. national laboratories, universities and private companies.
B&I Technology Offices and Partnership Program
Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office
- Invests in technologies that ensure the global competitiveness of the U.S. industrial base.
- Advances technologies for critical sectors for supply chains and US competitiveness, such as chemicals, iron and steel, cement and concrete, and food and beverage production. These sectors comprise approximately a third of total U.S. energy demand.
- Helps de-risk the development of cross-cutting industrial technologies that can unlock energy and cost savings across many sectors.
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office
- Invests in materials and manufacturing innovations for the development of a secure and resilient American energy supply chain.
- Advances cross-cutting innovations in materials and manufacturing for domestic production of future energy system and end-use applications.
- Fosters a strong domestic manufacturing workforce through entrepreneurial, education and workforce development initiatives.
- Advances research and development for new construction and retrofit technologies that increase the affordability, resilience, and safety of American homes and buildings.
- Accelerates building technologies (cold climate heat pumps, high efficiency rooftop units) that save energy costs for families and businesses and strengthen the global competitiveness of American businesses.
- Enable the right-sizing of cost-effective energy infrastructure investments through high-performing, energy efficient, and demand-flexible buildings.
- Partners with leaders across the US economy to spur innovation and drive cost-effective upgrades in commercial buildings, homes and industrial plants.
- Supports partners in achieving ambitious portfolio wide goals and shares best practices to advance the nation’s competitiveness.