House Appropriators Question DOE’s Energy R&D Programs

American Institute of Physics (Jones) - Key House appropriators had many questions at yesterday’s hearing of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee about energy R&D programs within the Department of Energy. Even though it has been about a year since DOE first proposed the Energy Innovation Hubs, there is concern that the research conducted by the Hubs, Energy Frontier Research Centers, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) may be, in the words of Subcommittee Chairman Ed Pastor (D-AZ), “redundant.”