If you rely on digital clean energy data hosted on federal websites, you may have noticed that some stuff has gone missing over the last few days. It looks like a variety of presentations, documents, and other resources related to clean energy have disappeared from the internet since the Trump Administration took the keys last week.
Trump's appointees have removed web access to USDOE's interconnection innovation webinars, including my presentation from 2024. I've posted it here: https://t.co/8KfTfYETVj pic.twitter.com/69zWfnXPAI
— Tyler Norris (@tylerhnorris) January 27, 2025
Tyler Norris, a Duke University fellow and PhD student, was disappointed to discover the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) interconnection innovation webinars, including his recent presentation, have been removed from DOE’s site. The i2X page, once packed with useful information for utilities, project developers, and the companies that work with them, now returns a 404 error.
And that isn’t the only example that’s been called to our attention lately.
Dr. Matthew Slavin, founder of Net Zero Grant Writing, submitted a contributed article to Renewable Energy World last September. In it, he accentuated the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by embedding a DOE-hosted map showing where hundreds of billions of dollars of funding was headed.
Dr. Slavin reached out to us this past weekend and asked if we were able to view the resource. It returned an error on our end, and we removed it from his article. An IRA investment map still exists on the DOE’s site, but some more specific, related assets are not.
Agrivoltaics specialist Austin Kinzer uploaded a 300-page PDF to LinkedIn after noticing the DOE Solar Futures Study was scrubbed.
We don’t know if these digital resource removals are permanent or part of a larger restructuring effort by the new Department of Energy. The once-active newsroom page has gone quiet since a series of executive orders paused all sorts of funding to be evaluated by the new administration for its prudence. The only posts since Inauguration Day are a pair relating to President Trump reversing a pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
If you notice any more important documents or resources missing (or others reappear), let us know and we can add them to this list.
