Department of energy

Offshore Wind Power

Philippine Energy Department, World Bank to Launch Offshore Wind Roadmap

​The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DoE) and the World Bank Group (WBG) is set to launch the country’s first Offshore Wind Roadmap on 20 April 2022.

Hydrogen Storage

DOE Funding Supports Hydrogen-Fueled Turbine Improvements

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced new funding aimed at improving the efficiency of hydrogen-fueled turbines that could one day be used in clean powe…

Nuclear Reactor

X-Energy to Produce HALEU Fuel for Advanced Nuclear Reactors

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose X-energy’s TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility to produce fuel for future advanced nuclear reactors and small modular r…

Hydrogen Storage

GTI Advancing Next-Generation Hydrogen Energy Storage Technology

Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy will allow research organization GTI and its partners to proceed to the next phase of a hydrogen project.

United States

Greening US Solar with End-of-Life Plan

The US Department of Energy’s five-year plan aims to reduce the environmental impacts of solar panels at the end of life, plus cut in half the cost of recyclin…

Nuclear Fuel

US DOE to Fund Recycling of Used Nuclear Fuel

The US Department of Energy (DOE) on 16 March announced up to $48 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programme

Nuclear Fuel

DOE Funds New Program to Recycle Used Nuclear Fuel, GE Conducting Innovative Related Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that it would provide up to $48 million for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program that could …

Geothermal Power Plant

NREL Appoints Amanda Kolka to Lead Geothermal Energy Program

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has named Amanda Kolker as the laboratory program manager for geothermal e…

Rooftop PV System

Clean Energy Supply Chains Need ‘Significant’ Improvement, DOE Report Finds

A year after President Joe Biden signed an executive order calling for a review of American supply chains, the Department of Energy released what it called its …

Wave Energy

U.S. Researchers Gearing up to Test Electromagnetic Wave Energy Device

Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, the researchers at Portland State University (PSU) are preparing to test and validate a new type of el…

SMR

Report Claims ‘Serious Problems’ with Proposed NuScale SMR

The analysis, released by the institute February 17, primarily focuses on the SMR project the Oregon-based company is building for Utah Associated Municipal Pow…

Hydrogen Technology

DOE Issues Two RFIs to Move Ahead with IIJA $9.5B Clean Hydrogen Initiatives

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released two Requests for Information (RFI) to collect feedback from stakeholders to inform the implementation and design of R…

CCS

DOE Selects Cormetech to Develop Carbon Capture Tech for Natural Gas Plants

American engineering company Cormetech has been selected by the US Department of Energy to further test and develop a new, lower-cost technology to capture CO2 …

Nuclear Reactor

DOE Launches Credit Program to Help Preserve Nation’s Nuclear Fleet

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking input on a newly established $6 billion program aimed at supporting the continued operation of U.S. nuclear react…

Microgrid

DoE Lab Partners with XENDEE on Net-Zero Carbon Microgrids

The Idaho National Laboratory, a US Department of Energy lab, has partnered with distributed energy resources company XENDEE Corporation to develop a platform t…