ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * First test of cutting-edge Brayton cycle technology put power into local grid * * * For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories researchers delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate ele  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- 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. electricity consumption this year to increase 2.4% over 2021, resulting primarily from increased economic activity but also from hot summer weather throughout most of the country. According to the agency's August 2022 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), growth in renewable energy will meet most of the increased e  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, and P. Meyer, Hanford resident inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending July 22, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: B. Sharpless was onsite performing cognizant engineer duties including walk-downs of Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Building 324, and 105 K  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Last month, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, revealed unprecedented and detailed views of the universe, with the release of its first full-color images and spectroscopic data. The cosmic objects that Webb targeted for these first observations were released July 12 and are   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: As countries around the world mobilize to battle climate change, a growing number of organizations, institutions of higher education and governments from more than 90 nations including Norway, Spain, France, South Korea, India, Australia, Mexico and the United Kingdom are turning to a user-friendly, yet sophisticated tool developed by a team of NETL rese  more

RICHLAND, Washington, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * As hurricanes threaten, Puerto Rico utilities are shoring up their defenses using a PNNL-devised planning tool, the Electrical Grid Resilience and Assessment System (EGRASS) * * * When Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm with 155-mph winds, made a direct hit on Puerto Rico in 2017, it ravaged the island's power grid and caused the longest bl  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following statement on Aug. 7, 2022: * * * U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today following the Senate's passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. "President Biden entered office with a pledge to build a new economy powered by clean energy-one that lowers costs for American families, creates good-paying jobs for American workers, and increases our energy independence. "T  more