A $327 million initiative to bolster research and infrastructure programs at national laboratories is funneling more than $61 million to Bay Area facilities, the Department of Energy announced on Tuesday.
Under the initiative, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will get $37.8 million in federal Recovery Act funding, with $11 million designated for fusion energy research, $13.1 million for new equipment at the Joint Genome Institute, and $4 million for new instrumentation at the Berkeley lab’s Joint BioEnergy Institute. Another $8.8 million will go toward improvements at the lab’s Advanced Light Source facility, which generates intense light for scientific research, and $875,000 will support development of “smart grid” technology, which uses computing and communications technologies to improve the efficiency of the electricity grid.
For more details, go to the San Jose Mercury News story.