WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news release on Feb. 25, 2026: * * * Energy Department Announces Largest Loan in Department History, Delivering Over $7 Billion in Electricity Cost Savings for Georgia and Alabama Customers U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) has closed a historic $26.5 billion loan package to deliver over $7 billion in electricity cost savings  more

MENLO PARK, California, Feb. 25 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches real-time discovery machine for monitoring the night sky * By Aaron Groff and Gaelle Suter Key takeaways:  * The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first alerts documenting astronomical events spotted by the observatory. * Among the first alerts are detections of supernovae, variable stars, active galactic nuclei,   more