Office of Fossil Energy - U.S. Dept. of Energy

The Office of Fossil Energy is responsible for several high-priority Presidential initiatives including implementation of the Administration's $2 billion, 10-year initiative to develop a new generation of environmentally sound clean coal technologies, the $1 billion FutureGen project to develop a pollution-free plant to co-produce electricity and hydrogen, and the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, both key emergency response tools available to the President to protect Americans from energy supply disruptions. Areas of research include coal and natural gas power systems, carbon sequestration, hydrogen and other clean fuels, oil and gas supply and delivery, natural gas regulation, electricity regulation, and petroleum reserves.