Department of Energy
Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee
Trump's nominees for energy and interior secretary cleared the ENR committee on bipartisan votes and now head to the floor where Senate leadership has been working to approve his cabinet picks.
C-SPAN
While Trump's order calls for “a reliable, diversified and affordable supply of energy,” it omits any mention of solar, wind or storage and makes only passing reference to transmission as part of its definition of generation.
C-SPAN
Minutes after he was sworn in as 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump signaled his intention to rapidly increase production of oil and gas.
DTE
The U.S. Department of Energy has made conditional loan commitments totaling $22.9 billion to utilities for transmission, pipeline and clean power investments.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, positioned himself as a supporter of an all-of-the-above approach to developing generation and transmission before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Switch
With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.
Shutterstock
The grants represent the second round of funding from the IIJA’s $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program.
Hydrostor
The Willow Rock Energy Storage Center is expected to bolster reliability of the California grid with 500 MW/4,000-MWh of long-duration storage.
The White House
As they prepare to leave office, Biden administration officials remain confident that IRA funds already committed by DOE will be impossible to claw back by the incoming Trump administration.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Data centers’ voracious appetite for electricity could spike more than threefold over the next four years, rising from 4.4% of U.S. power demand in 2023 to as high as 12% in 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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