MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- The U.S. Energy Department is giving a $30 million grant to a Pennsylvania company to construct a power generation plant at AK Steel Holding Corp.'s Middletown Works. The award to Allentown, Pa.-based Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Full Article at WHIO Dayton

Progress Energy has won $200 million in federal stimulus money to help fund development of a $520 million electric “smart grid” in the Raleigh-based utility company’s Carolinas and Florida territories. Full Article at Triangle Business Journal

The Department of Energy said Thursday it no longer expects to give $30 million for demonstration work at a uranium-enrichment plant in southern Ohio. Full Article at The Seattle Times