Department of energy

Energy Storage Project

PNNL and Microsoft Launch Partnership to Advance Energy Storage

Materials scientist Vijay Murugesan and his team are studying new battery electrolyte materials identified through a collaboration with Microsoft. (Photo by And…

Renewable Energy

Philippines, Indonesia Ink Energy Cooperation Pact

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Indonesian President Joko Widodo.MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday welcomed the signing of a…

Oil & Gas Trade

Biden Administration Slowly Puts Oil Back Into the Spr Emergency Stash

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.…

Electric Vehicle Battery

DOE to Award $37M to Reduce EV Battery Recycling Costs

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding (DE-FOA-0003120) to reduce costs associated with recycling electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This…

Nuclear Fusion

DOE to Fund $42M Inertial Fusion Hub Programme

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for a programme that will establish multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary hubs to advance foundatio…

Hydrogen Production

DOE to Award $59M to Advance the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy

The Department of Energy (DOE) released a funding opportunity announcement (DE-FOA-0003213) for up to $59 million to accelerate the research, development, demon…

Hydrogen Production

Rethinking Federal Investments: We Need Virtual Power Plants, Not Hydrogen Hubs

(Solar rooftop homes in Austin, Texas. Image: 123rf)The Department of Energy is providing taxpayer money to electric utilities like Xcel Energy to set up Hydrog…

Geothermal Heating Project

US DOE Study Shows Decarbonization Potential of Geothermal Heat Pumps

Configuration of a geothermal district heating and cooling system using geothermal heat pumps (source: US Department of Energy)The U.S. Department of Energy has…

Renewable Energy

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Clean Energy Achievements at COP28

This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. Turk traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Co…

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…