Department of energy

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Decades of Research Are Still Needed Before Fusion Can Be Used as Clean Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion science in December 2022. For the first time, more energy was released …

Pumped Storage

NHPC Signs Pumped Storage Mou in Maharashtra

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between NHPC Limited and the Department of Energy of the Government of Maharashtra for the development of pumped s…

Nuclear waste

US DOE Funds Consent-Based Siting For Used Nuclear Fuel

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced funding of $26m for groups of university, non-profit, and private-sector partners that will work with communitie…

Electric Vehicle Battery

DOE to Award up to $60M for Advanced Battery R&D Consortium

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $60 million for the creation of an Advanced Battery R&D Consortium (DE-FOA-0002965) to convene major manufact…

Oil Price

US to Add More Than Six Million Barrels of Oil to Reserves to Address Supply Disruptions

The Bryan Mound Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility at Freeport, Texas. The US Department of Energy says the reserve system has a 'long history of protecti…

Battery

DOE Gives Conditional Loan Commitment for $850M to Kore Power for Battery Plant in Arizona; NMC and LFP

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced a conditional commitment for an $850-million loan to help finance the constructio…

Nuclear Reactor

DOE Seeks Feedback on Two Rfps to Acquire Haleu for Advanced Reactors

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking feedback on two draft requests for proposals (RFPs) to acquire high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial m…

Nuclear Technology

Oxfordshire’s Tokamak Energy’s US Wing Wins Place On Department of Energy Fusion Project

Tokamak Energy's Oxfordshire baseThe American subsidiary of Tokamak Energy has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a project aimed at a…

Nuclear Reactor

DOE: MARVEL Microreactor Prototype Installed, Gearing Up for Testing

A full-scale electrically heated prototype of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 100-kWth MARVEL nuclear microreactor has been successfully installe…

Nuclear waste

Radioactive Liquid Waste Processing Fully Operational at Idaho National Lab

The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is now fully operational, according to the Department of Energy’s (DO…

Hydrogen Production

U.S. Department of Energy Invests $42 Million in Clean Hydrogen Technologies and Grid Resilience

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has made a significant commitment to advancing clean hydrogen technologies and grid resilience with a funding announcement o…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

US Micoreactor Prototype Prepares for Testing

The full-scale replica of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) MARVEL microreactor has been moved from Idaho to a facility in Pennsylvania where it will be u…

Waste-to-Energy Plant

DOE Funds 2 Community-Drive Waste-To-Energy Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy on May 19 awarded a combined $3 million to two waste-to-energy projects, including one that focuses on the potential to convert bi…

Electric Vehicles

US DOE Announces $187M to Accelerate Electric Transportation

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new $99.5 million funding opportunity in addition to the selection of 45 projects totaling $87 million to advance …

Electric Vehicles

DOE Announces $187M to Support Electrification of Transportation Sector

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new $99.5-million funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0002893) in addition to the selection of 45 projects totaling $87 mi…