Press Releases

In a ceremony attended by representatives of federal, state, and local historic preservation groups, DOE announced the formal completion of an agreement that will preserve the historic contributions of Oak Ridge’s K-25 site to the World War II Manhat...

The SunShot Grand Challenge Summit in Denver, Colorado, this week brought together the best and brightest minds in the solar industry to assess pro...

Research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy has led to a new licensing agreement that will improve the performance of state-of-the-art gas turbines, resulting in cleaner, more reliable and affordable energy.

Metallurgists at the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have helped develop a new alloy that is increasing the safety of an important medical procedure by being used to manufacture more flexible and conformable cor...

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot initiative, DOE is investing up to $20.3 million in innovative projects to strengthen the U.S. solar manufacturing industry, improve manufacturing efficiencies, and reduce costs. This includes suppor...

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced additional details of the Department of Energy's "SunShot" initiative to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75% so that they are cost competitive at large scale with oth...

The Reindustrialization Program at DOE's Oak Ridge Office was recently named a finalist in the U.S. General Services Administration’s 14th Annual Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation.

The Alpha 5 Legacy Material Disposition project at Y-12 recently celebrated the early completion of a significant project milestone. The fourth floor of Alpha 5 has been cleared of 5,430 containers of legacy materials, which includes any equipment and ...