Overview
U.S. federal executive department responsible for energy policy, the national laboratories, and grid programs. Tracked for grid and power programs that affect AI data center load and interconnection.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
SPARK grid selections: 31 projects, 26 states, $5.25B total (agency-stated, Sep 2026)
Data & sources
Government records
3
Web sources
2
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Safety record
No incidents on record for U.S. Department of Energy.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
U.S. Department of Energy in third-party press
Mentioned on (17)
Registry pages whose text names U.S. Department of Energy.
Companies (8)
Harbinger, FedEx Corporation, University of Denver, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy), Ames National Laboratory, Interlune, Texas Tech University
Robots and products (1)
Deployments (3)
RPS Radioisotope Power System at Sunol, California, USA, TALON at Fukushima, Japan, IQM Radiance at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
People (5)
Mitch Pryor, James Yang, Jud Virden, John Wagner, Stephen Streiffer
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdOct 5, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (5)
- https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-speed-power-investments-across-26-states-lower-electricity · 2026-09-24
- https://www.energy.gov/oe/speed-power-through-accelerated-reconductoring-and-other-key-advanced-transmission-technology
- https://www.energy.gov/documents/selected-applications-de-foa-003580-spark
- https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/doe-unveils-19bn-in-funding-for-31-grid-upgrade-projects-to-speed-data-center-connections/
- https://x.com/NextBillionLab/status/2106897158507041008 · 2026-10-05
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Methodology: Unreviewed · 5 sources (3 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-09
Verification posture
Unreviewed
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-09
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- primary-government-record
- Government record
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for U.S. Department of Energy.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning U.S. Department of Energy from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
DOE Announces Science Applications For Quantum Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the release of Quantum Genesis Priority Applications (QGPAs), a set of eight key scientific…
NASA, Energy Department Advance New Era of Nuclear-Powered Exploration
Editor’s note: This release was updated Oct. 8, 2026 with the formal name of the summit. As the Golden Age of deep-space exploration begins, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy…
U.S. Energy Department Announces Up To $4.2 Billion For Vistra Nuclear Upgrades In Pennsylvania And Ohio
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Dominance Financing has announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $4.2 billion to finance nuclear uprates and modernization…
Xcimer Energy Secures Additional $30.5 Million DOE Award
Xcimer Energy has finalized an agreement for up to $30.5 million in additional funding through the U.S. Department of Energy's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program,…
Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind and the US pool $1.8bn for AI biology data
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and…
Three US nuclear plants get $4.2B upgrade to add 433 MW of generating capacity
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has offered up to $4.2 billion in conditional financing...
Controlling supply chain key to US future: DOE
The many new investments from the US Department of Energy have one simple objective: securing the supply chain.
US DOE puts US$5.25 billion towards 23GW of grid improvements
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) will funnel US$5.25 billion into 31 “grid-improvement” projects across the US, which it claims will allow for 23GW…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/us-department-of-energy.md
- RSS feed: /companies/us-department-of-energy/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/4abdc7cf-a72d-4c37-9044-c93823c21179
- Revision history: /companies/us-department-of-energy/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place U.S. Department of Energy against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 9, 2026