A press release from the DoE ARPA-E announces $10 million to study low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, or cold fusion) See:

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/press-releases/us-department-energy-announces-10-million-study-low-energy-nuclear

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Up to $10 Million to Study Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions

ARPA-E Will Apply Scientific and Rigorous Approach to New Exploratory Topic Focused on Specific Type of Nuclear Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $10 million in funding to establish clear practices to determine whether low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) could be the basis for a potentially transformative carbon-free energy source. The funding is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) LENR Exploratory Topic, which aims to break the stalemate of research in this space.

“ARPA-E is all about risk and exploring where others cannot go, which is why we’ve set out with this LENR Exploratory Topic to conclusively answer the question ‘should this field move forward, or does it not show promise?’” said ARPA-E Acting Director and Deputy Director for Technology Dr. Jenny Gerbi. “We look forward to seeing the intrepid teams that come forward to approach this field of study with new perspectives and state-of-the-art scientific and technical capabilities.”

LENR Exploratory Topic awardees will pursue hypotheses-driven approaches toward producing publishable evidence of LENR in top-tier scientific journals by testing/confirming specific hypotheses (rather than focusing only on replication), identifying and verifying control of experimental variables and triggers, supporting more comprehensive diagnostics and analysis, and improving access to broader expertise and capabilities on research teams.

You can access more information on ARPA-E eXCHANGE.

The ICCF24 organizing committee has begun uploading videos of presentations here:

ICCF-24 x Solid-State Energy Summit videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/ICCF24xSolidStateEnergySummit/playlists

Most presentations will be uploaded. A complete list of presentations is here:

https://www.iccf24.org/program

The European Union (EU) has funded cold fusion research under grant agreement no 951974, project duration August 2020 – July 2024. This is called the Clean HME (Hydrogen Metal Energy) project, which is the latest alternative name for cold fusion. See:

CleanHME project

Researchers funded by this project presented 10 papers at ICCF-24. They had an initial meeting at the University of Szczecin in September 2020. Here are videos from the meeting.

The 15th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals and CleanHME General Assembly was held 25 September – 29 September 2022

Location: Hotel Domus Pacis Assisi, Piazza Porziuncola, 1 I-06081, Santa Maria degli Angeli (PG), Italy

http://www.iscmns.org/work15/

The ICCF24 Solid State Energy Summit was held July 25 – 28, 2022.

https://www.iccf24.org/

ABOUT

“The Summit will be a chance to reinvigorate interest and support for the next-generation of investment and research in the area of cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) through augmenting and empowering the ICCF community who have been the pioneers of the field.

Through this summit we want to aim to inspire young STEM talent to see this field as a valid career path, researchers and technologists to consider the value of pursuing on-demand, repeatable experimental evidence, and the investment community to see economic opportunity and societal benefit in supporting this field.”

The program is here:

https://www.iccf24.org/program

Videos of the presentations are here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ICCF24xSolidStateEnergySummit/playlists

This was probably the largest ICCF conference since ICCF3, in 1992.

The ARPA-E Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) Workshop was held on October 21-22, 2021. The workshop program, with links to some of the presentations, is here:

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/events/low-energy-nuclear-reactions-workshop

A copy of this program is in the LENR-CANR.org library, along with one of the PowerPoint slides:

https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ARPAElowenergyn.pdf

https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BarhamOhiverelect.pdf

The 23rd International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-23) was held on June 9 – 11, 2021, at Xiamen University, Fujian, China. The website is here:

http://ikkem.com/iccf-23.php

The conference was mainly virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference organizers are:

Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), China
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University

The abstracts and videos of the presentations are here:

http://ikkem.com/iccf-23_oralab.php

January 22, 2021 – January 24, 2021.

This is a virtual conference. Presentations are already recorded and available at the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/lenr-workshop/home

The 22nd International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ICCF-22 was held September 8-13, 2019 in Assisi, Italy.

See: http://iscmns.org/iccf22/

Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of Japan CF Research Society – JCF19
November 9-10, 2018, Ginga Hall, Iwate University