Energy Saver's Energy 101 Video Series has short, dynamic, and informative videos that provide an introduction to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation. Each Energy 101 video is designed to create awareness and inspire conversation around the basics of clean energy technologies and the solutions they offer.
View the complete Energy 101 video series via the U.S. Department of Energy’s YouTube playlist.
The Energy 101 video series is a collection of educational videos produced by the U.S. Department of Energy, with the next generation of clean energy leaders in mind. Text version.
Energy Efficiency
Clean energy and advanced manufacturing have the potential to rejuvenate the U.S. manufacturing industry and open pathways to increased American competitiveness. Text version.
Learn how commercial buildings can incorporate whole-building design to save energy and money while enhancing performance and comfort. Text version.
Learn how switching to a cool roof can save you money and benefit the environment.
Learn how a home energy checkup can help identify leaks in your home and save you money. Text version
Renewable Energy
This video explains what CSP is, how it works, and how systems like parabolic troughs produce renewable power. Text version.
The video highlights the basic principles at work in geothermal energy production, and illustrates three different ways the Earth's heat can be converted into electricity. Text version.
Learn how hydropower captures the kinetic energy of flowing water and turns it into electricity for our homes and businesses. Text version.
See how marine and hydrokinetic technologies harness the energy of the ocean's waves, tides, and currents and convert it into electricity to power our homes, buildings and cities. Text version.
Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can generate clean, cost-effective power anywhere the sun shines. This video shows how a PV panel converts the energy of the sun into renewable electricity to power homes and businesses. Text version
The video highlights how wind turbine components convert wind energy to electricity and the Energy Department's efforts to advance offshore wind power. Text version.
Sustainable Transportation
This video shows how oil is extracted from algae and refined into sustainable biofuels. Text version.
This video shows how biomass is broken down and refined into sustainable biofuels via biochemical and thermochemical processes. Text version.
This edition of Energy 101 highlights the benefits of electric vehicles, including improved fuel efficiency, reduced emissions, and lower maintenance costs. Text version.
See how organic materials like corn stover, wheat straw, and woody plants are being used to create homegrown biofuels in the United States—all while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and creating jobs in rural America. Text Version.
Learn how fuel cell technology generates clean electricity from hydrogen to power our buildings and transportation—while emitting nothing but water. Text version.
In this video, learn how new fuel-efficient technologies are making our country's big rigs quieter, less polluting, more energy-efficient, and less expensive to operate over time. Text version.
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