Department of energy

Nuclear Fusion

US Applies AI to Nuclear Fusion

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have used artificial intelligence (AI) to create “an innovative …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

US DOE Awards Nel Subsidiary Funds for Reversible Fuel Cell Research

Proton Energy Systems Inc has been awarded $1.85 million by the US Department of Energy to develop a reversible fuel cell system capable of producing low-cost h…

Offshore Wind Power

Philippines Takes First Offshore Wind Steps

The Philippines Department of Energy has awarded Triconti Windkraft Group a contract that gives the Filipino-Swiss-German joint venture the rights to develop of…

Nuclear Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Collaborate with TVA on Avanced Reactors

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) are to collaborate on the economic feasibility of po…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

US DoE Pledges up to $64m in Clean Coal R&D Funding

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $64m in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportun…

Hyundai Motor Expands Partnership with U.S. Gov to Support HFC Technologies

Hyundai Motor Company today announced the expansion of its partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its support of the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cel…

Solar Technology

US DOE Announces $125.5m in Solar Funding

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a funding of up to $125.5m for solar technologies.

Researchers Seek to Improve Hydropower, Lower Electricity Costs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $1 million to a research team led by Missouri University of Science and Technology to study ways to bette…

Researchers Seek To Improve Hydropower, Lower Electricity Costs

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded nearly $1 million to a research team led by Missouri University of Science and Technology to study ways to bette…

Micro Reactor

GE Hitachi joins TerraPower to Support Versatile Test Reactor

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and TerraPower have announced a collaboration to pursue a Public-Private Partnership to design and construct the Versatile Test …

U.S. Department of Energy Annouced Final “Process Rule” in the Consideration of Energy Conservation Standards

On January 16th,the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a final rule updating and streamlining aspects of the Department's current rule making process und…

Solar Power Plant

US Government Expects Domestic Solar Market to Install 24 GW in 2020

An agency under the Department of Energy expects 17.4 GW (DC) of utility-scale solar power and 6.6 GW of small-scale solar to be installed in 2020. The 24 GW to…

Nuclear Technology

Brookhaven to Host Electron-Ion Collider

The US Department of Energy has selected a plan whereby accelerator infrastructure at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (pic…

Nuclear Technology

Brookhaven Selected to Host New US Ion Collider

The US Department of Energy has selected Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York, as the site for a new research facility that it says will be a…

Energy storage technology

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Energy Storage Grand Challenge

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commerc…