Update on US Department of Energy FY 2020 Budget Request

Source:  Christine D. Harbin, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy, April 1, 2019.

Secretary Perry visited Capitol Hill three times this week to testify on DOE’s FY2020 budget request. First, before the House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee (video; testimony); next, before the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee (video; testimony); then, before the Senate Committee on Armed Services (video; testimony).

Detailed Budget Justification for Energy and Water Development Appropriations were released this week. These documents include: Volume 1 (National Nuclear Security Administration), Volume 3 Part 1 (Electricity Delivery; Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves; Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserves; PMAs; and Fossil Energy Research and Development); Volume 4 (Science); and ​Volume 5 (​Environmental Management).

DOE’s FY 2020 Budget Request supports America’s continued rise as an energy independent nation, and advances U.S. national security and economic growth by making investments in transformative science and technology innovation to promote affordable and reliable energy.  It also includes funding to meet our national security and environmental cleanup challenges. Here are additional summary budget documents:

— DOE FY2020 Budget Press Release & Fact Sheet
— FY2020 Budget in Brief – A high-level narrative summarization of the Department’s budget request
 FY2020 Laboratory Table – Summarizes funding by decision unit and by the laboratories at which DOE does work
— FY2020 State Table –  Summarizes funding by decision unit and by each state at which DOE does work