LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: As of 2020, 102.9 million smart meters - devices that record and communicate electric consumption, voltage and current to consumers and grid operators - have been installed in the United States. As the number of smart meters and the demand for energy is expected to increase by 50 percent by 2050, so will the amount of data those smart meters produc  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) produced water optimization program, PARETO, developed by NETL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), was named a winner in Hart Energy's 2022 Special Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation (MEAs) for its water management capabilities. PARETO, a free and open-source software tool, is an optimization framewor  more