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Committee presses DOE over canceled clean energy demonstrations, grantees seek answers
Summary
Lawmakers pressed Secretary Wright on DOE decisions to cancel dozens of industrial demonstration grants and to freeze or re-evaluate other awards; grantees and members said DOE must provide appeal processes and clear timelines.
Members on the Energy and Commerce subcommittee pressed Secretary Chris Wright about recent cancellations and pauses of demonstration grants administered through DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and other grant programs. Republicans and Democrats asked whether technical reviewers were involved in cancellation decisions and whether awardees were given an opportunity to respond.
Wright said those cancellations were ‘‘entirely the Department of Energy’’ decisions, and that most evaluations involved…
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