Department of Energy

Heidelberg Materials North America - Thu August 15, 2024

Heidelberg Materials Finalizes Award Contract With U.S. DOE for Mitchell, Indiana, Cement Plant Industrial Demonstrations Program Funding

Heidelberg Materials North America announced it has finalized award negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). Following negotiations, OCED awarded the Mitchell Cement Plant Decarbonization Project as part of its Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP) with $300,000 to begin Phase 1 of the project....

Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu July 25, 2024

Fed Funding to Increase U.S. Battery Production

In July, the Biden administration announced it would fund $1.7 billion for electric vehicle component production at 11 manufacturing plants across the country. In doing so, the fed made progress toward both ending the nation's dependence on China for batteries and meeting its 2030 goal of making 50 percent of all new U.S....

Volvo - Mon October 30, 2023

Volvo Group North America Achieves the Better Plants Challenge Energy Savings Goal for Second Time

Volvo Group North America (VGNA) has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently for achieving energy savings of close to 26 percent due to greater efficiency efforts across its manufacturing footprint as a partner in the Better Plants Challenge....

Volvo Trucks - Tue October 10, 2023

VIDEO: Volvo Trucks' SuperTruck 2 Exceeds Freight Efficiency Goals With Focus On Aerodynamics, Advanced Engineering

Volvo Trucks North America has unveiled the company's SuperTruck 2, with the debut on the company's YouTube channel. The SuperTruck 2 program, a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) tasked OEMs with achieving a 100 percent freight efficiency improvement over their submitted 2009 baseline....

JLG - Thu April 15, 2021

JLG's Shippensburg, Pa., Manufacturing Facility Is Recognized by DOE As a 50001 Ready Site

JLG Industries Inc. , an Oshkosh Corporation company and global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) and telehandlers, announced that its manufacturing facility in Shippensburg, Pa., has achieved the 50001 Ready designation from the Department of Energy (DOE)....

Fri February 10, 2017

Judge Dismisses $100M Claim in State MOX Plutonium Lawsuit, Calls for Parties to Mediate

One year after South Carolina filed a lawsuit against the Department of Energy, a district court judge decided that the state is not entitled to the $100 million it is seeking over a missed plutonium deadline at the Savannah River Site near Aiken....

Thu January 12, 2017

New England Clean Power Link Earns Presidential Permit

TDI New England (TDI-NE) announced the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Presidential Permit for the New England Clean Power Link, a 1,000 mW buried electric transmission line that will connect New England with eastern Canada....

Sun December 11, 2016

Feds Eye Storage Pad for Nuclear Waste in Southern New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The federal government's only underground nuclear waste repository has been closed for nearly three years due to a radiation release. As the U.S. Department of Energy works to get it reopened, the agency also wants New Mexico regulators to approve the construction of a new above-ground storage area where incoming waste can be kept for up to a year....