Department of Energy
Recent News About Department of Energy
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking comments from the public to inform decisions on how to use $250 million in funding to boost cybersecurity for rural, municipal, and small investor-owned electric utilities.
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Charles W. Duncan Jr., who served as the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Jimmy Carter administration, died at age 96 at his Houston home Oct. 18.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is releasing a total of $2.8 billion for projects aimed at expanding the domestic manufacturing of batteries, materials, components and technologies for electric vehicles and the electrical grid.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with support from the Biden-Harris administration, introduced the first set of projects backed by President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law meant to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid, as well as for materials and components currently imported from other countries, according to a release published on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced the release of approximately $14 million in funding for the study of how solar energy infrastructure interacts with wildlife and ecosystems.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced a set of funding opportunities worth approximately $4.9 billion, meant to strengthen investments in the carbon management industry, as well as to greatly reduce carbon dioxide emissions created by power generation and industrial operations, according to a release published on Sept. 23.
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Compound Capital Advisors Founder and CEO Charlie Bilello stated that the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has moved down for the 57th week in a row, accumulating an overall decline of 31%.
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The Savanna River Site's newest intern in the Savannah River Mission Completion’s welding shop is a graduate of South Carolina’s only historically black technical college.
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The U.S. Department of Energy issued a notice of intent for a $32 million investment into a new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-backed program supporting front-end engineering design studies to produce rare earth elements and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources.
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The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for information seeking public input on a $1 billion program focused on improving energy systems in rural or remote communities.
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Car manufacturer Honda announced an investment of more than $4 billion into three preexisting Ohio plants and the construction of a new electric vehicle plant in Fayette County.
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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm addressed the nation's oil and energy companies in a statement issued late last month, challenging them to reduce prices for Americans instead of pocketing record profits.
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The U.S. Department of Energy, alongside the National Conference of State Legislatures, concluded its seventh Tribal Clean Energy Summit Oct. 5.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has recommendations for Congress and other government agencies in an oversight report about climate change and the federal government's greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced the opening of a $400 million funding opportunity for basic research supporting the DOE's clean energy, economic and national security goals.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report calling for the U.S. Department of Energy to improve transparency in planning for the disposal of certain low-level nuclear waste.
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Tribal leaders from around the country are gathering in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and Wednesday to meet with senior members of the Department of Energy to discuss clean-energy opportunities for Native communities.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm spoke at the IAEA Ministerial's Rays of Hope event in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 27.
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The creation of a national network of clean-hydrogen hubs has gotten a $7 billion boost from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the form of grant funding, one of the largest investments in the Department of Energy's history.
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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm hosted the inaugural Global Clean Energy Action Forum closing ceremony Sept. 23.