Literally coming down to the wire, First Solar FSLR received Department of Energy loan guarantees for two projects on the last day of the loan-guarantee program's existence. The guarantees were for its 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight and 230-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One projects, both of ... April 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy recovered $21 million cash from struggling green car company Fisker Automotive that will go toward repaying nearly $200 million in loans extended... RICHLAND, Washington (Reuters) - The Department of Energy on Wednesday put forward a long-term plan to extract and ship low-level radioactive waste from leaking tanks at Washington state's Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a dump in New Mexico. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process. Nuclear Energy Institute President Marvin Fertel says the Department of Energy is close to closing a loan guarantee deal with Southern Co. ( SO -0.6% ) that would back two new nuclear power reactors under construction in Georgia. Fertel says he isn't involved directly in the talks, but his ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy said it has offered $344 million in loan aid for a solar power program at military bases that could double the number of the country's residential... On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it was extending $4.5 billion worth of loan guarantees to help finance three of First Solar's FSLR largest U.S. projects. Together, these projects total 1.33 gigawatts (GW), roughly the quantity of modules the company shipped in all of ... NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy said on Friday it will spend $27 million on a new effort to reduce the costs of solar power by 75 percent by the end of the decade in a bid to make the renewable power source as cheap as fossil fuels. In conjunction with the Washington, D.C., auto show, General Motors Company GM announced Thursday that it is withdrawing its application for $14.4 billion in Section 136 loans from the U.S. Department of Energy. The application was originally submitted in October 2009, and these loans are intended ... By Mark J. Perry : The Department of Energy released its monthly update Tuesday on natural gas production and prices through May, and the chart below displays inflation-adjusted natural gas prices for commercial and industrial users. By end user in May, industrial customers represented about 32% of ...