Energy Policy and New Uses Office

Stay Informed on Energy Policy and New Uses Developments

Part of: Agriculture Department

Document Statistics

Documents by Year

Documents by Type

Overview of the Energy Policy and New Uses Office (OEPNU)

Established in 1999 under the Department of Agriculture, the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses (OEPNU) plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy in agriculture. Its primary responsibility involves assisting the Secretary of Agriculture in the development and coordination of energy policies and strategies within the Department.

Core Responsibilities of OEPNU

  • Research and Development: The OEPNU conducts thorough research on the feasibility and economic potential of novel uses for agricultural products. Noteworthy areas include biodiesel and ethanol fuels, as well as other biomass energy sources.
  • Integration of Renewable Energy: Since 2009, OEPNU has been instrumental in analyzing how renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and geothermal can be integrated into agricultural contexts.
  • Deregulation Impact Studies: In collaboration with the Rural Utilities Service, OEPNU monitors the effects of deregulation on rural communities, particularly concerning electric utilities.

Why Monitoring OEPNU Matters

For professionals in industries such as energy, agriculture, and environmental science, staying updated with OEPNU's movements is crucial due to several reasons:

  1. Compliance with Federal Regulations: Legal teams and compliance officers need to ensure that their practices align with current federal policies.
  2. Seizing Funding Opportunities: HR managers and grant writers within agricultural and energy sectors are in constant search for funding. By keeping an eye on OEPNU developments, they can identify new financial assistance opportunities.
  3. Strategic Planning for Industry Shifts: Risk managers and strategic planners can better forecast and adapt to industry shifts, enhancing their readiness and strategic positioning.
  4. Mitigation of Regulatory Risks: Insurance providers and risk analysts can assess potential impacts of regulatory changes on their clients, adjusting risk profiles and policies accordingly.

Recent Trends and Impacts

  • Growth in Bioenergy Research: With an ongoing focus on biofuels, industries related to agriculture and environmental conservation are directly impacted by new findings and technological advancements.
  • Renewable Energy Advancements: The integration of renewable energies like wind and solar in agriculture holds the promise of not only diversifying energy sources but also enhancing sustainability in farming practices.
  • Deregulation Dynamics: The shifting landscape due to deregulation raises both opportunities and challenges for rural communities, making it essential for stakeholders to stay informed.

How FedMonitor Can Help

In today's fast-paced world, receiving timely updates is vital for making informed decisions. With FedMonitor, you can:

  • Receive Real-Time Updates: Stay informed on the latest notices, rules, or funding opportunities related to OEPNU.
  • Customize Alerts: Use our platform to set up notifications tailored to your specific fields of interest and receive alerts via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, email, or SMS.
  • Enhance Decision Making: Our AI-powered service ensures you only receive the most relevant information, saving you time and helping you focus on critical updates.

Learn more about our service or contact us today to see how we can optimize your monitoring experience.

Agency Details

  • Status: Active

    The Energy Policy and New Uses Office (OEPNU) continues to operate under the Department of Agriculture, fulfilling its role in developing and coordinating energy policy and research into renewable energy. There is no information provided indicating the agency has been disbanded or reorganized, it still appears to be functioning and undertaking its responsibilities as of the last description update.

  • Acronym: OEPNU
  • Website: Visit

Latest Documents

No documents available for this agency.

No sub-agencies found.

MessagesRequestTimelineExceptionsViews6Queries8Models4Livewire0MailsGate
SettingsRequest history153msRequest Duration3MBMemory Usage12.x
Laravel Version
12.3.0
PHP Version
8.4.1
Environment
production
Debug Mode
Enabled
URL
fedmonitor.com
Timezone
UTC
Locale
en
GET agencies/{agency}
status
200 OK
full_url
https://fedmonitor.com/agencies/energy-policy-and-new-uses-office-oepnu
action_name
agencies.show
controller_action
App\Http\Controllers\AgencyController@show
Theme
Open Button Position
Hide Empty Tabs
Autoshow
Reset to defaults
    status
    200 OK
    full_url
    https://fedmonitor.com/agencies/energy-policy-and-new-uses-office-oepnu
    action_name
    agencies.show
    controller_action
    App\Http\Controllers\AgencyController@show
    uri
    GET agencies/{agency}
    controller
    App\Http\Controllers\AgencyController@show
    file
    app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:60-125
    middleware
    web
    duration
    153ms
    peak_memory
    8MB
    response
    text/html; charset=UTF-8
    request_format
    html
    request_query
    []
    request_request
    []
    request_headers
      0 of 0   
    array:30 [▼
  "x-laravel-cloud-env" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "env-9e663346-6293-4a92-96f0-67b15beb57a8"
  ]
  "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "1"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "?1"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "none"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "navigate"
  ]
  "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "document"
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [▶
    0 => ""Windows""
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "?0"
  ]
  "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [▶
    0 => ""HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129""
  ]
  "priority" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "u=0, i"
  ]
  "pragma" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache"
  ]
  "cf-warp-tag-id" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "11511719-5345-4669-a7f3-5997272ccc17"
  ]
  "cf-visitor" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "{"scheme":"https"}"
  ]
  "cf-ray" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "935b5fe3a96b258a-CMH"
  ]
  "cf-ipcountry" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "US"
  ]
  "cf-connecting-ip" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "3.148.227.197"
  ]
  "cdn-loop" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "cloudflare; loops=1"
  ]
  "cache-control" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache"
  ]
  "accept-encoding" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "gzip, br"
  ]
  "accept" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7"
  ]
  "user-agent" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)"
  ]
  "x-scheme" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "https"
  ]
  "x-forwarded-scheme" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "https"
  ]
  "x-original-forwarded-for" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "3.148.227.197, 3.148.227.197"
  ]
  "x-forwarded-port" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "443"
  ]
  "x-forwarded-proto" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "https"
  ]
  "x-real-ip" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "3.148.227.197"
  ]
  "x-forwarded-for" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "3.148.227.197"
  ]
  "x-request-id" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "f5826f52bbd41d93ba1d8643a9eb45a4"
  ]
  "host" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "fedmonitor.com"
  ]
]
    request_cookies
    []
    response_headers
      0 of 0   
    array:3 [▼
  "content-type" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  ]
  "cache-control" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "no-cache, private"
  ]
  "date" => array:1 [▶
    0 => "Fri, 25 Apr 2025 05:17:32 GMT"
  ]
]
    session_attributes
      0 of 0   
    array:1 [▼
  "_token" => "lvcHAdlkDfFiHXFRjNr9TsYTyyIml59j8JleN8Lk"
]
    • Booting (6.67ms)time
    • Application (146ms)time
    • Routing (765μs)
    • Preparing Response (10.25ms)
    • View: agencies.showviews
    • View: components.document-chartsviews
    • View: components.sidebarviews
    • View: components.document-tableviews
    • View: layouts.publicviews
    • View: components.application-logoviews
    • 1 x Application (95.64%)
      146ms
      1 x Preparing Response (6.7%)
      10.25ms
      1 x Booting (4.36%)
      6.67ms
      1 x Routing (0.5%)
      765μs
      6 x View (0%)
      0μs
      6 templates were rendered
      • agencies.showshow.blade.php#?blade
      • components.document-chartsdocument-charts.blade.php#?blade
      • components.sidebarsidebar.blade.php#?blade
      • components.document-tabledocument-table.blade.php#?blade
      • layouts.publicpublic.blade.php#?blade
      • components.application-logoapplication-logo.blade.php#?blade
      8 statements were executed127ms
      • ImplicitRouteBinding.php#61mainConnection Established
        Backtrace
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ImplicitRouteBinding.php:61
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:966
        • vendor/livewire/livewire/src/Features/SupportPageComponents/SupportPageComponents.php:214
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/SubstituteBindings.php:42
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:209
      • ImplicitRouteBinding.php#61main73.55msselect * from "agencies" where "slug" = 'energy-policy-and-new-uses-office-oepnu' and "agencies"."deleted_at" is null limit 1
        Bindings
        • 0: energy-policy-and-new-uses-office-oepnu
        Backtrace
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ImplicitRouteBinding.php:61
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php:966
        • vendor/livewire/livewire/src/Features/SupportPageComponents/SupportPageComponents.php:214
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/SubstituteBindings.php:42
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:209
      • AgencyController.php#69main10.16msselect "documents"."id", "documents"."title", "documents"."abstract", "documents"."type", "documents"."publication_date", "agency_document"."agency_id" as "pivot_agency_id", "agency_document"."document_id" as "pivot_document_id", "agency_document"."is_primary" as "pivot_is_primary", "agency_document"."created_at" as "pivot_created_at", "agency_document"."updated_at" as "pivot_updated_at" from "documents" inner join "agency_document" on "documents"."id" = "agency_document"."document_id" where "agency_document"."agency_id" = 121 order by "publication_date" desc limit 20
        Bindings
        • 0: 121
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:69
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:64
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • AgencyController.php#86main5.9msselect "id", "name", "slug", "short_name", "parent_id", "image_url", "doc_count" from "agencies" where "parent_id" = 121 and "doc_count" > 0 and "latest_publication_date" >= '2020-04-25 05:17:32' order by "name" asc
        Bindings
        • 0: 121
        • 1: 0
        • 2: 2020-04-25 05:17:32
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:86
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:77
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • AgencyController.php#93main10.41msselect * from "related_entities" where "related_entities"."entity_type" = 'App\Models\Agency' and "related_entities"."entity_id" = 121 and "related_entities"."entity_id" is not null and "related_entity_type" = 'App\Models\Topic' order by "common_documents_count" desc, "score" desc
        Bindings
        • 0: App\Models\Agency
        • 1: 121
        • 2: App\Models\Topic
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:93
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:91
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • AgencyController.php#94main10.84msselect * from "related_entities" where "related_entities"."entity_type" = 'App\Models\Agency' and "related_entities"."entity_id" = 121 and "related_entities"."entity_id" is not null and "related_entity_type" = 'App\Models\SuggestedSearch' order by "common_documents_count" desc, "score" desc
        Bindings
        • 0: App\Models\Agency
        • 1: 121
        • 2: App\Models\SuggestedSearch
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:94
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:91
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • AgencyController.php#105main5.97msselect * from "agencies" where "id" < 121 and "agencies"."deleted_at" is null order by "id" desc limit 1
        Bindings
        • 0: 121
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:105
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:103
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • AgencyController.php#106main4.95msselect * from "agencies" where "id" > 121 and "agencies"."deleted_at" is null order by "id" asc limit 1
        Bindings
        • 0: 121
        Backtrace
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:106
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/Repository.php:429
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cache/CacheManager.php:456
        • app/Http/Controllers/AgencyController.php:103
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
      • show.blade.php#13main5msselect * from "agencies" where "agencies"."id" = 13 and "agencies"."deleted_at" is null limit 1
        Bindings
        • 0: 13
        Backtrace
        • view::agencies.show:13
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:124
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/PhpEngine.php:58
        • vendor/livewire/livewire/src/Mechanisms/ExtendBlade/ExtendedCompilerEngine.php:22
        • vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:75
      App\Models\Agency
      4Agency.php#?
          ClearShow all
          Date ↕MethodURLData
          #12025-04-25 05:17:32GET/agencies/energy-policy-and-new-uses-office-oepnu684