The Energy Department on Wednesday laid out a new structure and staff changes within its Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, or CMEI, in an internal email obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The document provides details into how DOE is restructuring CMEI, an office that includes what was previously dubbed the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which focused on efficiency, wind, solar and hydrogen projects. Energy Secretary Chris Wright late last year revamped the agency to boost fossil fuels, minerals and nuclear power and said the renewables office would be absorbed into the newly created CMEI.
DOE in a Wednesday press release also revealed the creation of three new “pillars” within CMEI: the Office of Critical Minerals, Materials and Manufacturing, or CM3; the Office of Energy Technology, or E-Tech; and the Office of Innovation, Affordability and Consumer Choice, or IACC.
“Under this realignment, the Department can more effectively direct its resources to meet an unprecedented surge in demand for energy and the critical minerals that underpin the modern economy,” Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson said in a statement.
