Press Releases

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today issued an emergency order to keep a Colorado coal plant operational to ensure Americans have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity heading into the winter months.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today issued emergency orders to keep two Indiana coal plants operational to ensure Americans in the Midwest region of the United States have access to affordable, reliable, and secure electricity heading into the winter months.

Energy Storage Innovations Prize Round 2 re-opening for submissions. This prize is a call for new, innovative, and promising energy storage solutions to address niche markets and to grow a community of energy storage innovators. The Energy Storage Innovations Prize offers a total prize pool of $300,000 in cash prizes.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today issued an emergency order to ensure Americans in the Northwestern region of the United States have access to affordable, reliable and secure electricity heading into the cold winter months.

The Feeder of the Future Prize, which encourages grid system feeder and circuit designs, is now open for submissions to meet power delivery demands.

The Department of Energy today announced the extension of the emergency orders that are strengthening Puerto Rico’s electric grid.

The Department of Energy (DOE) today issued its fifth emergency order authorized by Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to secure America’s grid reliability.

The Department of Energy warns that blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity.

Winners of the EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP) 2025 were announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at the prize’s National Pitch Event on June 30 at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

The Office of Electricity announced $5 million each to 3 grid-scale energy storage projects that support critical facilities and infrastructure in a power outage or other emergency. Funding is from the Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER) FOA.