Amid the general uncertainty as to what’s going to happen with the Department of Energy’s funding and staff, fears over the fate of one of the agency’s newest, yet most impactful offices are mounting.
Trump administration officials reportedly requested that DOE submit a list by the end of this week of projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and annual appropriations. Officials ordered the review of programs that have spent less than 45% of appropriated or awarded funding. The resulting “hit list” will help the administration determine which Biden-funded programs it will work to eliminate.
And, according to reporting from E&E News, it seems the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is particularly at risk.
OCED, officially established in late 2021 under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, manages over $20 billion in federal investments aimed at accelerating deployments for sectors like clean hydrogen, advanced nuclear, carbon capture, and energy storage. As former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm put it, OCED’s mission is to “move clean energy technologies out of the lab and into local and regional economies across the country.”
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