The Department of Energy Is Spending a Tiny Fraction of Its Money

The Department of Energy Is Spending a Tiny Fraction of Its Money

The Department of Energy has an enviable problem: It has more money than it can spend.DOE disbursed just 2% of its total budgetary resources in fiscal year 2025, according to a report released earlier this year from the EFI Foundation, a nonprofit that tracks innovations in energy. That figure is far lower than the 38% of funds it distributed the year prior.While some of that is due to political whiplash in Washington, there is another, far more…