The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) maintains a unified online identity by requiring its websites to be in the Energy.gov Drupal environment and use common EERE navigation. Some partnership websites have their own look and feel.
Please note that all EERE websites—even partnership websites—must meet the requirements for federally funded websites, such as the accessibility requirements in Section 508.
If you have questions about the current or former web templates, please contact the EERE Digital Team.
Energy.gov Template
EERE websites should be hosted in the Energy.gov Drupal environment. These websites use Energy.gov's standard Drupal layout template.
Examples of different types of content templates are available on the CMS Support page (requires login to Energy.gov CMS backend).
Application Template
Any web application hosted outside of the Energy.gov Content Management System that is branded to EERE must use EERE's application template. Applications should follow the application style guide.
Template Exceptions
Websites may be approved to be hosted outside of Energy.gov when EERE is contributing funds to an activity, but is not the primary sponsor and doesn't have primary editorial control over the website. These are considered partnership websites. The Web Governance Team (WGT) must pre-approve partnership websites. Read about the requirements for partnership websites.
The WGT must approve any other requests for websites that will not use the Energy.gov template.
Event Websites
Websites for EERE-sponsored events should be developed in the Energy.gov template, hosted on one of EERE's approved locations, and use EERE's approved and commonly used navigation labels.
Event homepages should have the event's name, location, dates and a brief description of the event.
You may use external websites to host your registration pages and to collect your registrants' information, as long as they meet EERE's requirements for a secure hosting environment.