The U.S. Dept. of Vitality (DOE) on Oct. 1 introduced the termination of 321 monetary awards supporting 223 initiatives for a complete of $7.56 billion. DOE mentioned it decided these initiatives “didn’t adequately advance the nation’s power wants, weren’t economically viable and wouldn’t present a constructive return on funding of taxpayer {dollars}.”
Russ Vought, director of the U.S. Workplace of Administration and Finances (OMB), said on X that the initiatives are in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington — all however two being states with Democratic governors. SPW reached out to DOE for an inventory of affected initiatives and is awaiting a response.
The awards have been issued by the Workplaces of Clear Vitality Demonstrations (OCED), Vitality Effectivity and Renewable Vitality (EERE), Grid Deployment (GDO), Manufacturing and Vitality Provide Chains (MESC), Superior Analysis Tasks Company-Vitality (ARPA-E) and Fossil Vitality (FE).
The 2026 funding invoice for Vitality and Water Growth, which is now within the Senate for consideration, would further gut funding for renewable growth packages like ARPA-E and the Mortgage Packages Workplace.
“On Day 1, the Vitality Dept. started the vital job of reviewing billions of {dollars} in monetary awards, many rushed by way of within the remaining months of the Biden administration with insufficient documentation by any cheap enterprise normal,” mentioned DOE Sec. Chris Wright. “President Trump promised to guard taxpayer {dollars} and develop America’s provide of reasonably priced, dependable, and safe power. At present’s cancellation’s ship on that dedication. Relaxation assured, the Vitality Dept. will proceed reviewing awards to make sure that each greenback works for the American individuals.”
In Might 2025, Secretary Wright issued a Secretarial Memorandum known as “Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance” that established a brand new coverage for evaluating monetary awards. The coverage approved program workplaces to request extra data from awardees and required that awards be reviewed on a case-by-case foundation.
Award recipients have 30 days to attraction a termination resolution. A few of the initiatives included on this announcement have already begun that course of.
