Department of energy

Oil & Gas Trade

US Seeks to Buy Up to 3 Million Barrels of Oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve

An oil storage tank and crude oil pipeline equipment is seen during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.…

Nuclear Reactor

TRIGA International to Produce Fuel for US Microreactor

TRIGA International - a joint venture between Framatome and General Atomics - has been awarded a contract to fabricate TRIGA-like fuel for the US Department of …

Geothermal Power Project

Berkeley Lab Publishes Detailed Report on Salton Sea Geothermal Lithium Potential

Salton Sea and the SouthernValley, California (source: flickr/ Doc Searls, creative commons)The U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of …

SMR

Nuscale, Ornl to Assess SMR Use by Industry

NuScale Power and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are to collaborate on a techno-economic assessment (TEA), studying a Nu…

Solar Power Plant

DOE Wants to Speed up Transmission, Solar, and Storage Projects by Lightening Environmental Rules

Powin's 50 MW/66.2 MWh battery storage project in Texas. (Courtesy: Powin)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted a proposal that, if approved, wo…

Geothermal Drilling

US DOE Announces $44 Million Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Drilling rig on site of Utah FORGE project site, Nov. 2020 (source: Utah FORGE)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Frontier Observatory for R…

Wave Energy

DOE Announces First Round Prize Winners for Novel Wave Energy Technologies

(Courtesy: Michael Olsen/Unsplash)The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced Phase I winners of the Innovating…

Geothermal Power Plant

US DOE Announces $44 Million Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Drilling rig on site of Utah FORGE project site, Nov. 2020 (source: Utah FORGE)The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Frontier Observatory for R…

Nuclear Fuel

UK and USA Team Up on Fusion Development

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate the de…

Uranium Project

Centrus Makes First Haleu Delivery

The first delivery of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) produced at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio, to the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

Solar project

New Database Maps Large-Scale Solar Projects Across the Country

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) released the largest and most com…

Energy Storage Project

DOE: The Private Sector Accounts for 89% Of Announced Us-Made Battery Investments

Announcements of private sector investments in US-made battery technologies have been increasing over the last few years, with 208 as of September 2023, accordi…

Coal Production

Ramaco Resources Acquires Commercial Development Rights for Coal-To-Products Process

Following years of collaborative work, Ramaco Resources Inc. has formally acquired a patent from the US Department of Energy’s leading research institutio…

Offshore Wind Power

Acciona EnergíA, Selected to Develop a New Wind Farm in the Philippines

ACCIONA Energía has announced today that it has been awarded, together with its local partner Freya Renewables, development rights for a 160MW wind farm …

Oil & Gas Trade

US Seeks to Buy Up to 3 Mln Barrels for Oil Reserve for Jan Delivery

An oil storage tank and crude oil pipeline equipment is seen during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.…