A clear focus on manufacturing and energy efficiency was evident in the White House's budget request for the Department of Energy. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) saw an overall 40% increase over the FY2010 enacted budget, with a significant portion of that attributable to the Industrial Technologies Program,
which saw an increase of nearly 250%. The current Administration has been slowly rebuilding ITP after years of budget cutbacks, as shown in the attached bar graph. The $320 million ITP budget request for 2012 is a surprising, but certainly welcome, increase. This memo includes a breakdown of some key provisions in the new budget:
