The Department of Energy is “ghosting” hundreds of funding recipients and has not closed out billions of dollar in grants that were canceled last year, according to a new report.
The analysis from the DOE alumni network, a group of former officials launched in 2025, provides more details on how $12.5 billion in project cancellations under the second Trump administration have affected industries and companies.
The bulk of those cancellations occurred in October 2025, when the department nixed $7.5 billion in awards, including for several hydrogen and carbon-removal hubs.
“DOE is moving extremely slowly to resolve the disputes that hundreds of awardees filed regarding those terminations,” wrote Tarak Shah, former DOE chief of staff during the Biden administration, in a statement on the report.
