Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy

06/16/2026

The C&E Outreach Team recently visited Belfair Montessori Magnet School to demonstrate how the sun's energy can be harnessed to do work.

The team helped students set up solar ovens to cook s’mores, giving them hands-on experience in both making use of energy provided by the sun and in how insulation can work to amplify and manage heat energy, a critical lesson for students who will be maintaining their own households in the future and will want to know how to be as energy efficient as possible.

Lessons like this use small-scale energy demonstrations to make discussions of energy and heat more real for students, in ways that interest them and help prepare them for more complex lessons in the future.

06/11/2026

C&E Secretary Dustin Davidson and Director of Communications Anna Johnson joined Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana House Natural Resources and Environment Committee Chairman Brett Geymann, Shell USA President Collette Hirstius, Lafourche Parish President Mitch Orgeron and other state and industry dignitaries on Wednesday at Port Fourchon to commemorate Shell’s Mars platform in the OCS off Louisiana’s coast having produced more than 1 billion barrels of oil.

Louisiana’s workers and infrastructure, such as Port Fourchon have played a vital role in supporting the development of oil and gas resources in the Gulf of America, and have shared in the economic strength and energy security provided by its ongoing exploration and production.

06/11/2026

The Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board conducted its monthly meeting and lease sale on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in the LaBelle Room of the LaSalle Office Building in Baton Rouge.

The Board collected $474,950 in bonus revenue for the June lease sale. The current 2025-2026 total bonus payment is approximately $4.3 million. At this month’s lease sale, there were 12 leases covering 3,361 acres sold. The leases were located in Assumption, Iberia, St. Martin, and St. Mary parishes.

The total bonus payments to the state for the previous fiscal year, 2024-2025, amounted to $7.7 million.

Learn more: https://www.dce.louisiana.gov/news/smeb-announces-results-of-june-lease-sale-2026

06/09/2026

It was a radiant day spent with the Episcopal of Baton Rouge Summer STEM Camp! Our C&E Outreach Team partnered with our Governor's Fellows Intern, Ava Lowe, to lead an interactive session on solar energy and ultraviolet rays. Students got hands-on experience with energy transformations using solar ovens and tracked UV intensity with solar bracelets.

06/04/2026

The students at Lafayette High School had a blast participating in the Energy House Challenge with the C&E Outreach Team! With a box and a variety of insulating materials, students explored how to design and build energy-efficient homes. Hands-on learning made understanding energy conservation both fun and impactful!

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

C&E Deputy Secretary Stephen Swiber and Office of Energy Executive Director Amanda McClinton recently attended the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE) Workshop in Baton Rouge, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Louisiana State University (LSU). This opportunity marks the next step in Louisiana’s efforts to move the state’s Nuclear Strategic Framework from strategy to action by building on recent efforts like the Louisiana Nuclear Strategy & Supply Chain Summit held last month in New Orleans.

UPRISE Workshop attendees took part in conversations with industry, state and federal leaders, technical experts, and more on the rising demand for nuclear energy, the role of nuclear energy in positioning Louisiana for continued energy dominance, and opportunities to expand the nation’s nuclear energy capacity by capitalizing on significant DOE UPRISE program funding.

06/01/2026

Please join us in welcoming our summer Governor’s Fellow, Ava Lowe! Ava is a sophomore at LSU in Baton Rouge, majoring in Mass Communication with a concentration in public relations. She is also a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.

This summer, Ava will be working with our Communications team, and we’re excited to have her learn all about our department.

Welcome Ava!

05/29/2026

05/28/2026

C&E Secretary Dustin Davidson arrived in Japan this week and met with Eiji Yanagawa of Mitsui & Co. as part of a Louisiana delegation to discuss the partnerships built over decades between the two countries and the potential for investment in Louisiana, focused on energy, manufacturing, logistics and industrial opportunities.

On behalf of the people of Louisiana, C&E thanks Mitsui & Co. and the people of Japan for their warm welcome, hospitality, friendship and confidence in our state as a place to invest and do business. We look forward to deepening our partnership with Japan across energy, trade, infrastructure and innovation, and the potential for new businesses and new jobs for our people as our economy grows.