WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are requesting feedback on the structure of the next American-Made Challenge. The anticipated American-Made Utility Digital Transformation Prize will connect utilities with interdisciplinary teams of software developers and data experts to transform  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to average 10.5 billion cubic feet per day during the second half of 2022, which is a 6% decrease from the first half of the year, according to the agency's July 2022 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). That amount is a 14% decrease in U.S. LNG exports from EIA's June forecast.   more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf, D. Gutowski, and J. Plaue, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending June 24, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: After nine years at LANL and four years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, J. Plaue completed his service in the fie  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on July 12, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), Division of Methane Mitigation Technologies, announced its intent to issue funding for research and development (R&D) projects that will help to reduce methane emissions across oil and natural gas producing regions of the United States. After carbon dioxide, methane is the mo  more