WASHINGTON, March 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy issued the following news on March 21, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $10 million in funding to explore nickel extraction from soil using plants--a process known as phytomining--to establish a competitive domestic supply chain, supplement conventional mining methods, and reduce nickel imports. Managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, March 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: * * * The U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office spotlights impactful Argonne hydropower research in its annual accomplishments report * * * Three recent studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory advance the role of hydropower in driving the clean energy transition. The research explore  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on March 21, 2024: As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $475 million in funding for five projects in Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to accelerate clean energy deployment on current and former mine land. This funding--made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law--will support a variety of diverse, locally-  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following opening remarks on March 21, 2024, by Commissioner Allison Clements at the March 2024 commission meeting: * * * E-1 I am pleased that we are affirming all of the core reforms of Order No. 2023. We are requiring greater stringency on both interconnection customers and transmission providers; an appropriate approach given how pervasive and consequential interconnection backlogs are.  more