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FE Announces Approximately $8M for Projects under the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call

News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced approximately $8 million in federal funding for three projects through DOE’s 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call. These three projects are part of a larger Department-wide funding announcement totaling approximately $80...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the results of the 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call with funding of approximately $80 million over three years. This funding aims to strengthen, transform, and improve the resilience of energy infrastructure to ensure the nation’s access to reliable and secure sources of energy now and in the future.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for $128 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 75 innovative research projects that will lower solar electricity costs, while working to boost solar manufacturing, reduce red tape, and make solar systems more resilient to cyberattacks.


Department of Energy Announces $128 Million in New Projects to Advance Solar Technologies

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for $128 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 75 innovative research projects that will lower solar electricity costs, while working to boost solar manufacturing, reduce red tape, and make solar systems more resilient to cyberattacks.


Secretary Perry Addresses the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

News Release: Thank you for that introduction, Yll [ILL-ee] (Bajraktari, NSCAI Executive Director) [Bah-j-Rock-Tar-ee]. And let me also thank Representative Stefanik [Steff-ON-ick]…for her leadership and passion for AI’s nexus with national security.


Department of Energy Announces $80 Million For New Grid Modernization Lab Call Projects

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the results of the 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call with funding of approximately $80 million over three years. This funding aims to strengthen, transform, and improve the resilience of energy infrastructure to ensure the nation’s access to reliable and secure sources of energy now and in the future.



Lower-Risk Demolition Complete at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Little remains of the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s (PFP) main processing facility at the Hanford Site after workers completed demolition of its lower-risk portions last week.


Connecting Hanford's Cleanup Mission With the Future Workforce

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) recently hosted the 2019 Connect Tri-Cities, an event that brought together 1,200 high school students, job seekers, employers, educators, labor union representatives, tribal members, veterans, and others to help build the local workforce of the future.


DOE Highlights West Valley's Best Practices in Stakeholder Communications

News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Employees at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site routinely communicate their efforts to be good stewards of the environment to a variety of people, from stakeholders in the surrounding community to the site’s cleanup crews.


SRS Museum Shares Stories of Residents Displaced for Nuclear Facility

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) Museum celebrated its reopening in November with “6,000 Stories," a new permanent exhibit fully funded by DOE’s Office of Legacy Management that shares the accounts of individuals displaced almost 70 years ago to make way for the former nuclear weapons material production site that is now SRS.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews are making significant progress removing asbestos and other hazardous waste from the Biology Complex at Oak Ridge’s Y-12 National Security Complex in a deactivation project that’s more than 60 percent complete.


Pallone Statement on FCC Approval of T-Mobile-Sprint Merger

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it has approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint...


News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Brad Bugger, a program analyst with the DOE Idaho Operations Office, briefs the EM Site-Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) Chairs during an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site tour last week. The group visited the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment...


News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to consider nominees for the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The nominees are Ms. Katharine MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of DOI and Mr. James Danly to be a member of FERC.


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The first area of utility support infrastructure at Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) is now fully operational as EM Office of River Protection contractor Bechtel National, Inc., recently completed final grading, earthwork, and stormwater systems around its fuel...


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Every year during Nuclear Science Week, employees at Savannah River Site (SRS) present hands-on demonstrations to local students on a variety of operations at the site.


News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for the Moab UMTRA Project, Remedial Action Contract- hereafter, the “Moab RAC".


News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $4 million for new projects to support manufacturers in improving energy efficiency, increasing productivity, and accelerating manufacturing innovation. The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative, managed by DOE’s...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Trump Administration today for submitting a formal notification to the United Nations initiating the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord...