By: Alan Mitchell, Sam Bailey
Last month, the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted a list to Congress that included 1,951 awards that it intends to retain or modify after conducting an unprompted, 16-months-long internal review process. This review process—which has yielded two formally published lists and two unofficially circulated lists, including this latest “retain/modify” list—has injected significant uncertainty into clean energy development and deployment at a time of surging energy and electricity prices. The latest list leaves many questions unanswered for both project developers and the broader U.S. energy markets.