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DOE Office of Electricity Requests Feedback on Next American-Made Challenges Prize

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Electricity (OE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are requesting feedback on the structure of the next American-Made Challenge. The anticipated American-Made Utility Digital Transformation Prize will connect utilities with interdisciplinary teams of software developers and data experts to transform digital systems in the energy sector and data analytics for utilities.


DOE Announces Winners of 32nd Annual National Science Bowl

Release: Successful Competition Highlights Importance of Investing in the Next Generation of America’s Science Leaders


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Work by the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) to provide additional groundwater protection at one of the Hanford Site ’s groupings of large underground waste tanks is nearing completion.


Idaho Site Progressing Toward Full Operations at Liquid Waste Treatment Plant

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Idaho National Laboratory Site continues to make progress toward the start of radiological operations at the plant that will treat roughly 900,000 gallons of liquid waste,.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), Division of Methane Mitigation Technologies, announced its intent to issue funding for research and development (R&D) projects that will help to reduce methane emissions across oil and...


Solar Array Reflects Restored Tribe's Path to a Brighter Future for All

News Release: Like the oak savannah grassland that surrounds Graton Rancheria Resort and Casino, the sleek rooftop solar array that reflects the blue sky above tells a story.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its cleanup contractor UCOR are poised to significantly alter the landscape at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL ) in the coming months.


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) Environmental Monitoring Program has become the framework for a new nationally applied nuclear industry standard.



News Release: Cybersecurity researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently joined the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), a national network that convenes advanced research institutions in smart and advanced manufacturing, securing automation and supply chains, workforce...


June Updates: Building a Better Grid Initiative

News Release: Enabled by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Building a Better Grid Initiative is working to catalyze the nationwide development of new and upgraded high-capacity electric transmission lines. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) offered transmission planning details in June and July 2022.


EM Los Alamos Achieves Key Milestones in Campaign to Determine Closure for Historically Contaminated Sites

News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) recently met key milestones in a cleanup campaign to reevaluate whether certain sites around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL ) with historical contamination pose a risk to human or environmental health.


DOE-GFO offers new grant application process starting July 12

Community Geothermal Heating and Cooling Design and Deployment grant opened on July 12.


News Release: A tour of abandoned uranium mines in the Navajo Nation recently gave several agencies a chance to see how such mines have been successfully reclaimed and safeguarded.



News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that contracts have been awarded for the purchase of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) following a Notice of Sale announced on June 14, 2022. The contract awards are part of President Biden’s announcement on March...


News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Management and Operating (M&O) Contract to Tularosa Basin Range Services, LLC (TBRS), located in Reston, Virginia. TBRS is a single purpose entity comprised of Bechtel National, Inc. TBRS will utilize Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc. (LATA) as a Small Business Teaming Subcontractor.


DOE-NNSA grant application closes on Oct. 19

STEWARDSHIP SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCES PROGRAM CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE grant opened on July 11.


DOE Announces $8 Million for University Training and Research for Decarbonization and Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions Technologies

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced funding for two opportunities totaling $8 million to advance natural gas research coupled to methane mitigation and build new humanities-driven science, technology, engineering...


Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury discussed on July 8 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a four page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.