In a letter sent to Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Monday, 30 policy think tanks, clean energy companies, and nuclear energy firms asked DOE to protect the LPO from mass cuts.
The groups said the spending reductions under consideration would damage LPO’s critical role in financing domestic energy projects, including those supporting new nuclear generation, domestic mineral production, and modernizing the grid.
“The office’s ability to underwrite and monitor large-scale energy projects depends on specialized technical staff and institutional capacity,” the letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner, says. “Without them, the federal government risks slowing or stalling the diverse mix of energy projects that serve national priorities, such as new nuclear energy development for powering AI data centers — undermining investment certainty and weakening American
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