The Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response has announced $70 million in available DOE funding for projects enhancing the cybersecurity of electric cooperatives and municipal and small investors’ utilities. A CESER press release on Thursday noted that the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes the funding available to help create electric […] Read more
The Department of Energy and the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute, a public-private partnership led by the University of Texas at San Antonio, are soliciting research proposals with the aim of enhancing the cybersecurity of manufacturing in the United States. A request for proposals issued by the organizations says that projects must fall within three industry […] Read more
Allegheny Science & Technology said it has secured a $49 million Department of Energy contract. Under the five-year Program Information Collection System and Support Services contract, AST will provide support to different offices under the DOE, including the Office of Nuclear Energy and the Idaho Operations Office. Support for DOE’s mission-critical research, development, demonstration and deployment […] Read more
NASA has partnered with the Department of Energy to develop an instrument that would study the moon’s radio environment and what scientists refer to as the cosmic dark age. The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night pathfinder will be placed on the dark side of the moon via the Commercial Lunar Payload Service and use its antennas […] Read more
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has published a request for information on the Federal Register calling for higher education institutions to share how to equip students for quantum information science work. Colleges and universities are invited to answer questions on current learning programs, relevant needs and whether skills should be taught to students […] Read more
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has revealed eight private-sector projects that will receive $100 million in investments under the Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential program, which is intended to aid in scaling and commercializing clean power technologies assessed as marketable. According to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, achieving the Biden administration’s […] Read more
The Biden administration has announced $1.5 billion in additional funding for the federal government’s national laboratories. According to the Department of Energy, the funding will be used to upgrade facilities, modernize infrastructure and address maintenance projects. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the resources will be used to develop advanced technologies. The funding will come from […] Read more
The Department of Energy will award a total of $39 million to 16 projects overseen by academic and commercial organizations aimed at increasing yields of metals and rare earth materials such as copper, lithium and cobalt for clean energy hardware. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery program will handle funding […] Read more
The Department of Energy has awarded $46 million to 22 biofuel energy projects aimed at decarbonizing the transportation and power generation sectors. The awardees will work on ways to transform waste streams and captured carbon into alternative clean energy sources, DOE said Wednesday. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said that biofuel energy can help decarbonize […] Read more
The Department of Energy has earmarked $28 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for research and development efforts in hydropower, which currently accounts for 31.5 percent of America’s renewable electricity generation. DOE said it will issue three funding opportunity announcements covering technologies such as pumped storage hydropower, which will enable the intermittent production of renewable […] Read more
