Dive Brief: - The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to reinstate $82.1 million in funding for 11 clean energy grants that were awarded by the Biden administration and canceled by the Trump administration after a federal judge vacated the cancellations on Thursday. - The plaintiffs — a coalition of groups led by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers — cited a similar case settled in January, in which DOE was ordered to reverse $27.6 billion in grant cancellations and did not contest that a primary reason for their cancellation was that the grantees were located in states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. - “Plaintiffs in the present case are seven DOE awardees who, like the Saint Paul plaintiffs, are located in a Blue State and had one or more DOE awards terminated in the same October 2025 set of DOE terminations that were at issue in Saint Paul,” the plaintiffs wrote. Dive Insight: The grantees in this case sought funding for projects in New York, Oregon, Connecticut, Minnesota and Colorado. One plaintiff, the New Buildings Institute, had four Oregon grants canceled. All 11 grants were issued by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which last year was consolidated into DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation. “The Court enters judgment in favor of Plaintiffs,” wrote U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta in his Thursday ruling. “This is a final, appealable judgment.” During a Wednesday appearance by Energy Secretary Chris Wright before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee regarding DOE’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, Congressman Gabe Amo, D-R.I., cited the resolution of the January case and asked Wright when the department would “restore funding to all the projects that were wrongfully terminated.”