Department of energy

Wind Power Project

New Report Finds Value of Wind Energy Far Exceeds Costs

Wind energy continues to see strong growth, solid performance, and attractive prices in the U.S., according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energ…

United States

US DOE Announces $44M Funding for EGS Innovation Projects

Through Utah FORGE, the U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding for up to 17 awards that will build on FORGE's existing work on EGS technologies.

Floating Offshore Wind

Researchers Design Novel Floating Wind Turbine for Deep Waters

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories created a tool that they plan to use to design a novel floating wind turbine that the…

Nuclear waste

Nuclear Waste Recycling Startup Wants to Solve the ‘Ball and Chain’ Problem Holding Back Nuclear

Ed McGinnis knows firsthand about the nuclear waste problem in the United States after working for the Department of Energy from 1991 to 2021.

Geothermal Power Plant

Enhanced Geothermal Energy System R&D Gets a Boost From DOE Money

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy field laboratory announced up to $44 million for projects to develop and…

Hydropower Plant

Smart Tools to Enhance the Flexibility of Hydropower Turbines in the US

A team of GE Research engineers has been awarded a project through US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to improve the operating capacity …

Nuclear Technology

Can AI Improve the Profitability of Nuclear Energy?

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory said they believe artificial intelligence could save the nuclear industry more t…

United States

US Launches Research Group to Grow Domestic Solar Industry

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more …

United States

DOE Awarding $26M to Projects that Prove the Grid Can Run on 100% Clean Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million to fund projects that will conclusively show that electricity grid can reliably run with a mix of sola…

Distributed Grid

Shell to Collaborate With NREL on Grid Edge Solutions

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Shell, Spirae LLC, Electrical Grid Monitoring Inc., and Israel Electric Corporation to partner with the National …

Nuclear Reactor

DOE Formalises Test Reactor Decision

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its Record of Decision on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the sodium-cooled fast neutron reacto…

Gas Turbine

GE Gas Power Awarded $4.2M to Boost Gas Turbine Efficiency

GE Gas Power has secured $4.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance development …

Hydrogen Storage

Green Hydrogen Storage System Project Launched on NREL Colorado Campus

Hydrogen storage company GKN Hydrogen, gas utility SoCalGas and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory are collaborating on a new g…

CCS

DOE Injects $39M R&D Funding Into ‘Buildings as Carbon Storage’ Projects

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $39 million in awards for 18 projects seeking to develop technologies that can transform buildings into net carb…

Net Zero Emission

DOE Invests $6 Million in Seedling Solar Energy Research Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 19 projects, with a total funding of $6 million, that will pursue innovative, targeted, early-stage ideas in solar …