Contextualizing Inflection Points in EERE Research Funding Over the Last Two Decades

The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE), founded in 1981, was the second biggest funder of project grants and cooperative agreements among Department of Energy program offices in FY 2023. Focusing on EERE, this project aims to determine inflection points in the office’s research funding priorities. As such, our project will address the following question: Where are the inflection points in research funding by the DOE’s EERE over the last two decades, and what contextual factors contributed to these observed funding priority shifts?

The GFRC researchers will share findings from the project on February 18, 2024 at 1 pm CST.