Department of energy

Hydropower Plant

DOE Awards $3.5 Million to 18 Small Businesses for Hydropower, Marine Energy Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced more than $3.5 million for 18 hydropower and marine energy projects as part of the Small Business Innovation R…

Coal Mine

DOE to Award $32M for Feed Studies for Production of Rare Earths and Critical Minerals and Materials From Coal

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $32 million for Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies for two different sizes (intermediate-scale and demo…

Biofuel

DOE Invites Applications for Wood Heater Innovation Program

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is encouraging innovators, researchers and manufacturers to partner with the DOE&rsqu…

Biofuel

Blue Biofuels Receives DOE Grant for Renewable Fuels Technology

Blue Biofuels Inc. announces today the receipt of a prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 grant. The grant, valued at…

Hydropower Plant

WPTO Allocates $4.3 Million in Technical Assistance to Empower Hydropower Community

The Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of 10 technical assistance projects, worth $4.3 mill…

Biofuel

DOE: Biofuel, Bioenergy Employment up in 2022

U.S. firms working with clean energy fuels, such as corn ethanol, woody biomass/cellulosic biofuel, and other biofuels, added 1,962 jobs in 2022, growing by 1.7…

LNG

US Dept of Energy Grants Export License to Gulfstream LNG

Gulfstream LNG Development has received an export authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its proposed liquefied natural gas export plant in…

Oil & Gas Supply

EPA and DOE to Provide More Than $1B to Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Sector

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Department of Energy (DOE) are partnering to provide more than $1 billion in funding to help reduce methane …

Nuclear waste

Agreement Facilitates WIPP Permit Renewal

The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Salado Isolation Mining Contractors (SIMCO) have negotiated a settlement agr…

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…