EPRINC Research Director Max Pyziur was quoted in Utility Dive regarding the recent congressional appropriations bill for the Department of Energy.
The bill provides $3.1 billion in funding to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, significantly exceeding the White House’s requested $880 million, and includes funding for solar and wind programs that the administration had requested zero funding for. Pyziur noted that the reallocation of approximately $3.1 billion toward the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Deployment Program “makes sense, because it’s continued funding for safeguarding the U.S. nuclear fuel supply for the grid, continuing research in that particular realm.” He also observed that the funding helps support the national labs, calling it “very important work and very useful work.”
The article is available at Utility Dive.