According to Bloomberg’s filing, the U.S. Department of Energy proposed closing its Clean Energy Demonstration Office and cutting about $9 billion in awards for plans for carbon capture, direct air capture, solar energy and hydrogen.
Under the plan, this is not the final plan, the $27 billion employee will be reduced to 35 employees, and the approximately $10 billion project, including $3 billion for the so-called hydrogen hub, will remain “as is” and transferred to other parts of the energy sector.
The office hired about 250 employees before climate change skeptic President Donald Trump returned to the office.
According to Axios, the decision to destiny of the agency’s establishment in bipartisan infrastructure legislation is likely to be made immediately next week.
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The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night.
Funding for hydrogen hubs that can produce and use gases is designed to emphasize its potential as a carbon-free fuel operation plant and power plant. Direct air capture involves the technology that absorbs planetary carbon dioxide from the air that absorbs carbon dioxide.
The documents show that the potentially eliminating funding includes billions of dollars in hubs in California, the Pacific Northwest, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, while the hubs in Texas, Appalachia and Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota will be spared. The plan also recommends retaining $3.5 billion for advanced nuclear reactor projects and $1.9 billion for industrial demonstration programs.
It is also planned to terminate the carbon capture project, the battery storage project and the Occupy Oil subsidiary’s direct capture project. The company was elected as much as $1.2 billion in rewards by the Biden administration in 2023.
The plan is as the energy sector is implemented, with its mission ranging from overseeing the country’s emergency reserves of oil to protecting the grid from cyber threats, and it has identified 8,500 jobs as “non-essential” as it prepares to lay off employees in response to the mandate of Elon Musk’s government efficiency team to cut staff.
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