DOE plans to ‘retain or modify’ nearly 2K Biden-era projects. (Latitude Media)
The agency has handed Congress the list of resurrected projects (less than 1% actually received termination notices). The revived awards include projects under the Grid Resilience and Innovation Program, recently renamed SPARK. Not on the list? The many projects that DOE has kept in limbo.
Bigger picture: Last year, the agency opened just eight new funding opportunities (down from an annual average of 50), per a DOE Alumni Network analysis. Zero went to efficiency or renewables offices. Meanwhile, $2.8B of funding appears to be abandoned.
The damage: 15 months of funding destru..erm, disruption, have already pushed some grantees to abandon awards outright, while others were forced to file for bankruptcy. And staff departures raise questions about whether DOE can even administer the projects it says it's keeping.