Happy Wednesday!
You know we like to energy and we
try keep up with the happenings at the Department of Energy and their various
departments. Let’s get started.
Did anyone
happen to read the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals
and Energy Innovation Office’s CMEI News newsletter on April 27, 2026, they had
an announcement, “DOE’s Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office to Release $430
Million to Improve America’s Hydropower Fleet”? In the announcement, it goes on to speak on
how the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office
(H2O) recently published they will resume talks this week with awardees of $430
million from the Maintaining and Enhancing Hydroelectricity Incentives program. The Hydroelectric Incentive program was
part of the previous administration’s agenda to invest in low emission energy,
and is for American hydropower facilities to modernize, so they will continue
to be part of the U.S. energy solution to keep America’s lights on with reliable
low emission power. H2O has 293 projects
with 212 facilities in 33 states to work out deals with. The hydropower facilities modernization is a
private – federal partnership to revamp their aging infrastructure, and the partnership
is investing almost $3 billion. We wish
them luck keeping America’s lights on. We
will keep you posted on anything interesting we hear out of the DOE’s H2O.
If you would like to read more of the
Announcement from the U.S. DOE’s Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office, please
click the link: DOE's Hydropower and Hydrokinetic Office to Release $430 Million to Improve America's Hydropower Fleet | Department of Energy.
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We hope you have a wonderful evening and a productive week.
**Disclaimer: Please see the Announcement from the U.S.
DOE’s CMEI for specifics. **