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U.S. Energy Secretary Urges Renewables Development Amid Gas Boom (Platts)

Would like to see more development of so-called "forgotten renewables," such as geothermal systems.

DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz

The Obama administration should be pushing hard for the development of renewable energy technologies even as the ongoing U.S. gas boom makes them less economically competitive, the new head of the Department of Energy said Wednesday.

"This is the time to get those ready for the marketplace on a big scale," DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz said during a town hall forum with DOE employees.

Moniz said he would like to see more development of solar and wind technologies, as well as so-called "forgotten renewables," such as geothermal systems and small hydropower.

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