http://www.theenergydaily.com Energy Portal en-us 2010 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:46:26 EDT Six months after they stepped back from a similar reassignment amid swirling controversy, officials in the Energy Department’s environmental management office have announced that Jeff Allison, the DOE manager of the Savannah River Site for the past... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4081.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT J. Gregory Meyer, formerly head of the Babcock & Wilcox unit that operates the Energy Department’s Pantex plant, last week was named senior vice president of Fluor’s government group and will lead the company’s environmental/nuclear... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4074.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT The Energy Department announced Tuesday that NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to $154 million to support a post-combustion carbon capture and storage project in Texas that will use the captured greenhouse gas for enhanced oil recovery. The NRG... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4049.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Energy Secretary Steven Chu Monday announced the department has awarded a total of approximately $40 million to two teams—one led by Westinghouse Electric Co. and the other by General Atomics--for conceptual design and planning work for the so-called... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4040.html Tue, 9 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In a significant boost for a new building efficiency technology that can automatically tint windows to adjust light levels for optimum comfort and energy conservation, the Energy Department announced Friday it has awarded a conditional commitment for a $72... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4033.html Mon, 8 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Two days after a federal court ordered the U.S. government to pay a Washington state utility $57 million in damages stemming from the government’s failure to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, leading Democratic and Republican... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/4009.html Wed, 3 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In a surprise move, Southern Company has declined to accept $295 million in federal cost-share money offered by the Energy Department for a large-scale carbon capture and sequestration demonstration project at the utility’s coal-fired Plant Barry in... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/3991.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST In a big boost for the kind of marquee clean energy project ardently sought by the Obama administration, the Energy Department announced Monday it would provide $1.37 billion in federal loan guarantees to BrightSource Energy Inc. for construction of a... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/3959.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST In a project made possible by economic stimulus funds, the Energy Department Tuesday called for contractor bids on demolition and removal of the sprawling K-33 building at its former uranium enrichment plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. In a request for proposals... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/3899.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST In the face of analyses showing its plan would force massive job cuts at several Energy Department sites, the White House Office of Management and Budget has reconsidered its initial proposal to whack DOE cleanup funding in fiscal year 2011 by $1 billion... http://www.theenergydaily.com/hottopics/contracting/3740.html Thu, 14 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST