The funding awards were issued by six offices at the Energy Department: Clean Energy Demonstrations, which works with the private sector to advance a range of energy technologies, including hydrogen, advanced nuclear and energy storageEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which promotes technologies that can lower energy costs and reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuelsGrid Deployment, which works on upgrading the country’s electric infrastructure Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, which invests in projects designed to improve the country’s economic and national security  Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which invests in cutting-edge energy technologiesFossil Energy, which funds projects to encourage domestic production of fossil fuels and critical minerals   Wright said the Energy Department has been reviewing funding that was “rushed through in the final months of the Biden administration with inadequate documentation by any reasonable business standard.” Funding recipients have 30 days to appeal the terminations, the department said. Responding to Vought’s announcement, Democratic lawmakers said that cancelling Energy Department funding is an effort by the Trump administration to punish Democrats during the government shutdown. “Let’s open our eyes.