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WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - Energy Secretary Rick Perry is weighing a request to end DOE’s participation in a multibillion project that would carry 4,000 megawatts of electricity – enough to power more than 1.5 million homes – across multiple states.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The Energy Department’s directive to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue a rule that helps accurately price electricity generation was intended to spark a conversation on the resiliency and reliability of the country’s electric grid, Energy Secretary Rick Perry told a recent hearing on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - Four republican governors sent a letter to President Trump this week expressing concerns with recently proposed changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and urging the president to keep his promises to rural America to support the RFS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held a hearing Oct. 12 to consider bipartisan bills designed to ease the process of implementing hydropower.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing recently on a discussion draft of the “Accessing Strategic Resources Offshore Act.”

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources heard testimony on a discussion draft of the “Opportunities for the Nation and States to Harness Onshore Resources Act.”

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The Energy Department’s office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) joined forces on collaborative projects to increase energy performance.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - India received its first-ever shipment of American petroleum earlier this month, among signs  that the Asian nation’s energy needs are increasing at a faster rate than all other regions of the world.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) plans to send microgrids and small-scale wind turbines to Puerto Rico.