Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy is launching Open Energy Information, a new open-source web platform at www.openEI.org that will make DOE resources and open energy data widely available to the public. The data and tools housed on the free, editable and evolving wiki-platform will be used by government officials, the private sector, project developers, the international community and others to help deploy clean energy technologies across the country and around the world.
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