Re-Energizing America

Technology Pillar Snapshots

America must reinvest in innovation. These technology sectors are where we can start.

This inaugural series follows last year’s release of Re-Energizing America: Reclaiming American Leadership in Energy Innovation. Re-Energizing America set funding targets for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the next five years based on ten technology pillars outlining areas of strategic importance for America’s energy system. This series breaks down each of the pillars to explore why they matter, where federal policy supports them, and what policymakers can do to keep the United States ahead of the game.

Making the Future: Re-Energizing Clean and Competitive Manufacturing

The United States led the world in energy and manufacturing innovation for over a century, but that competitive edge is eroding. Reclaiming leadership will require sustained, sharpened federal support for clean and competitive manufacturing.

Supply Chain Innovation: Securing Vital Links in the U.S. Energy System

The power plants, factories, vehicles, and grid equipment at the core of a modern energy system are assembled from thousands of components and materials. New technologies can support the growth of the United States’ domestic supply chain.

Powering the Future: American Innovation for a Secure, Efficient, and Digitally Enabled Power System

America’s aging electric grid faces rising demand, increasing costs, and growing security threats. Advanced grid technologies, backed by targeted federal support, can deliver a more affordable, reliable, and secure power system.

The Ten Technology Pillars of Energy Innovation

Re-Energizing America identified ten technology pillars for which federal innovation support would advance our nation toward its goals of deep decarbonization and economic opportunity. Over the past few years, rapidly rising energy prices and an evolving geopolitical order have expanded the urgency for energy innovation to address affordability and national security. Our technology pillars reflect this broadened set of policy criteria.

Explore the white paper and browse the pillars below to learn more.

Clean and Competitive Manufacturing

Heavy industries, artificial intelligence applications, power system components.

Secure supply chains

Battery chemistry, natural resource exploration, material processing.

Secure, efficient, digitally enabled power systems

Electricity transmission, storage, and virtual power plants.

Clean firm electricity generation

Advanced nuclear fission, fusion energy, enhanced geothermal.

Foundational Science and Platform Technologies

Electrochemistry, quantum computing, and machine learning.

Sustainable fuels

Advanced biofuels, synthetic hydrocarbons, clean electricity.

Efficient buildings

Ground-source heat pumps, improved building envelopes, smart sensors.

Variable electricity generation

Tandem and flexible photovoltaics, floating wind, marine energy.

Advanced transportation systems

Medium and heavy-duty trucking, maritime, air, rail.

Carbon management

Carbon management, carbon capture, carbon storage.

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Additional Re-Energizing America Resources

Reclaiming American Leadership in Energy Innovation

Now is the time to rebuild American energy innovation leadership to create a reliable energy future that is cleaner, more affordable, and more secure. The Road Ahead calls for a federal investment of $25 billion for DOE’s RD&D programs by 2030.

An Action Plan for a DOE That Delivers

Now is the time to ensure DOE is well-equipped to take on the energy challenges of the future and serve as a reliable partner to American innovators and a trusted engine for the nation’s energy security and economic future.