Tag: Department of Energy

May 7, 2024

Cleanly and affordably expanding the U.S. electric grid will require large amounts of energy storage and the Department of Energy is asking stakeholders to shine a light on potential manufacturing and design challenges that could limit deployment. DOE’s Office of […]

March 27, 2023

The United States Department of Energy has funded $3.5 million to the Argonne National Laboratory to advance battery recycling technology. The funding will also support the effort to expand commercial-scale, domestic production of battery materials. Argonne scientists have developed new […]

July 13, 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a Bechtel company to manage and operate the nation’s only deep underground repository for nuclear waste: the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Tularosa Basin Range Services LLC, doing business as […]

May 18, 2022

The Department of Energy is hosting a 30-day comment period to determine where to put decades-old waste from the Manhattan Project work. The site is called Y-12, and environmental regulators and the community have been discussing plans since a landfill […]

December 1, 2021

Verizon Public Sector announced that it has been awarded $34.6 million through two contract awards with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Per the task orders, awarded through the federal government’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract vehicle, Verizon will provide […]

April 20, 2021

The White House on Tuesday announced the first pilot program to improve the cybersecurity of the nation’s electricity infrastructure as part of a broader initiative focused on industrial control systems. “The 100-day plan includes aggressive but achievable milestones and will […]

November 12, 2018

When operators of Duke Energy’s control room in Raleigh, North Carolina wait for a hurricane, the mood is often calm in the hours leading up to the storm. “Things are usually fairly quiet before the activity starts,” said Mark Goettsch, […]

October 13, 2017

Regulators in a growing number of states are including energy storage in their planning processes. Though it fell short of a full-fledged mandate, Massachusetts in June set a 200 MWh energy storage target. And New York is in the process […]

January 9, 2017

The Department of Energy has released the second installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review. The report, entitled Transforming the Nation’s Electricity System, describes the electric system as a critical, essential national asset and says it is a “strategic imperative” for […]