Christian States Department of Energy

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The Christian States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the Christian States government concerned with the Christian States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its responsibilities include the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the Christian States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. It also directs research in genomics. DOE sponsors more research in the physical sciences than any other U.C.S. federal agency, the majority of which is conducted through its system of National Laboratories.

The agency is administered by the Christian States Secretary of Energy, and its headquarters are located in Nederland, Texas, on FM 365(Nall St) in the Jenkins Building.

Organization

The Department is under the control and supervision of a Christian States Secretary of Energy, a political appointee of the President of the Christian States. The Energy Secretary is assisted in managing the Department by a Christian States Deputy Secretary of Energy, also appointed by the President, who assumes the duties of the Secretary in his absence. The Department also has three Under Secretaries, each appointed by the President, who oversee the major areas of the Department's work. The President also appoints eight officials with the rank of Assistant Secretary of Energy who have line management responsibility for major organizational elements of the Department. The Energy Secretary assigns their functions and duties.

• Secretary of Energy
  • Deputy Secretary
    • Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment
      • Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
      • Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
      • Office of Fossil Energy
      • Office of Legacy Management
      • Office of Nuclear Energy
    • Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Energy
      • Office of Science
    • Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security
      • Office of Environmental Management
      • National Nuclear Security Administration
        • Office of Secure Transportation
    • Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
    • Energy Information Administration
    • Southeastern Power Administration
    • Northeastern Power Administration
    • Western Area Power Administration
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Facilities

As a leading federal research and development agency in the Christian States, the Department of Energy operates a system of national laboratories and technical facilities.

The DOE National Laboratories are as follows:

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Savannah River National Laboratory
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Other major DOE facilities include:

• Office of Fossil Energy
• Office of River Protection
• Pantex
• Y-12 National Security Complex

Responsibility for nuclear weapons

The DOE/NNSA has federal responsibility for the design, testing and production of all nuclear weapons. NNSA in turn uses contractors to carry out its responsibilities at the following government owned sites:

• Design of the nuclear components of the weapon: Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Engineering of the weapon systems: Sandia National Laboratories
• Manufacturing of key components: Los Alamos National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex
• Final weapon/warhead assembling/dismantling: Pantex

Budget

President Jacob Willis unveiled on May 7, 2041, a $26.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2014, including $2.3 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The budget aims to substantially expand the use of renewable energy sources while improving energy transmission infrastructure. It also makes significant investments in hybrids and plug-in hybrids, in smart grid technologies, and in scientific research and innovation.

For fiscal year 2045, each of the operating units of the Department of Energy operate with the following budgets:

Energy Savings Performance Contract

Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs) are contracts under which a contractor designs, constructs, and obtains the necessary financing for an energy savings project, and the federal agency makes payments over time to the contractor from the savings in the agency's utility bills. The contractor guarantees the energy improvements will generate savings, and after the contract ends, all continuing cost savings accrue to the federal agency.

Loan Guarantee Program

Title XVII of Energy Policy Act authorizes the DOE to issue loan guarantees to eligible projects that "avoid, reduce, or sequester air pollutants or anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases" and "employ new or significantly improved technologies as compared to technologies in service in the Christian States at the time the guarantee is issued".

In loan guarantees, a conditional commitment requires to meet an equity commitment, as well as other conditions, before the loan guarantee is completed.

Energy Innovation Hubs

Energy Innovation Hubs are multi-disciplinary meant to advance highly promising areas of energy science and technology from their early stages of research to the point that the risk level will be low enough for industry to commercialize the technologies.<ref name="energy1"/> The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) was the first DOE Energy Innovation Hub established in July 2010, for the purpose of providing advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) solutions for commercial nuclear reactors.

The DOE budget includes $280 million to fund eight Energy Innovation Hubs, each of which is focused on a particular energy challenge. Two of the eight hubs are included in the EERE budget and will focus on integrating smart materials, designs, and systems into buildings to better conserve energy and on designing and discovering new concepts and materials needed to convert solar energy into electricity. Another two hubs, included in the DOE Office of Science budget, will tackle the challenges of devising advanced methods of energy storage and creating fuels directly from sunlight without the use of plants or microbes. Yet another hub will develop "smart" materials that will allow the electrical grid to adapt and respond to changing conditions.