Department of energy

Personnel Appointment

Department of Energy Announces New Senior Leaders

Tarak Shah to Serve as Chief of Staff, David G. Huizenga to Serve as Acting Secretary

Electricity Transmission

AVANGRID Granted Hydropower Transmission Line Permit

Inc., a sustainable energy company, has announced that it has received the Presidential Permit from the US Department of Energy for its New England Clean Energy…

Energy Technology

US$47m Funding from US Department of Energy for Disruptive Tech Mostly goes to Batteries, Smart Grid

The lion’s share of new funding announced this week to help scale-up potentially disruptive technologies by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy of t…

United States

US DoE Publishes its ‘Energy for Space’ Strategy

The US Department of Energy has released its ‘Energy for Space’ strategy.

Nuclear Power Plant

NuScale and UAMPS Agreements Progress Plans for SMR Plant

The Carbon Free Power Project will be a 720 MWe NuScale power plant, comprising 12 NuScale Power Modules, to be located at the US Department of Energy's INL sit…

Hydropower Plant

Philippines Unveils Latest Round of Renewables Bidding

The Philippines’ Department of Energy has kicked off the start of its third round of bidding to further accelerate the development of renewables in the country…

Energy Storage Project

EPRI Selected for Three Energy Storage Projects

The Electric Power Research Institute was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to lead three advanced energy storage projects.

Energy Storage Project

DOE Invests US$7.6 million to Develop Energy Storage Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected 29 projects to receive nearly US$7.6 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development.

Nuclear Reactor

DOE Releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Versatile Test Reactor

The U.S. Department of Energy invites the public to review and comment on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for construction of the Versatile Test Reactor.…

Hydrogen Technology

Consortium Concludes Next-Generation Hydrogen Production Research

Advent Technologies has concluded a Department of Energy HydroGen Program in which a number of collaborators advanced the state of hydrogen production with a ne…

United States

U.S. Department of Energy to Support America's New National Space Policy

The Trump Administration announced the release of the National Space Policy, which advocates for developing and deploying nuclear power and propulsion systems o…

Hydro Generator Unit

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $35 Million in Funding for Hydrokinetic Turbine Development

SHARKS teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines (HKT) designs for tidal and riverine currents.

Nuclear Power Plant

Why NASA Wants to Put a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will seek proposals from industry to build a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars to support its long-term exploratio…

Hydrogen Project

US Nuclear Lab Partnering with Utility to Produce Hydrogen

​The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded just under $14 million for an attempt to build a hydrogen-energy production facility at a nuclear power plant in Min…

Market Analysis

US DoE Supports R&D of Net-Zero with Coal FIRST Initiative

The US Department of Energy is supporting the development of 21st-century electricity and hydrogen energy plants that have net-zero carbon emissions.