ARGONNE, Illinois, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Team's algorithm could lead to pivotal discovery of new materials for solar cells. * * * The sun continuously transmits trillions of watts of energy to the Earth. It will be doing so for billions more years. Yet, we have only just begun tapping into that abundant, renewable source of energy at affordable cost. Solar absorbers are a material used to convert this   more

UPTON, New York, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2022: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has been awarded funding from the DOE Office of Science for three proposals submitted in response to a DOE call for projects in Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean-Energy Technologies and Transform Manufacturing (CEM). $11M in funding over a span of three years will support  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. ER22-495-000, et al.) on Aug. 31, 2022, involving MISO resource adequacy construct proceedings: * * * I support accepting MISO's proposed seasonal resource adequacy construct in Docket Nos. ER22-495-000 and ER22-495-001. It is now a truism, established through numerous Commission precedents,[1] that in an FPA secti  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following dissent on Aug. 31, 2022, by Commissioner Allison Clements on a decision (Docket Nos. ER22-495-000 and ER22-495-001) involving Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.: * * * I dissent from today's order accepting a suite of resource adequacy reforms filed by Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) because I cannot conclude they will yield just and reasonable rates for   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket Nos. ER22-496-000 and ER22-496-001) on Aug. 31, 2022, involving Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc.: * * * While I am not persuaded by the entirety of the Commission's reasoning for rejecting Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.'s (MISO) tariff revisions to implement a Minimum Capacity Obligation (MCO),[  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL received stakeholder feedback and suggestions as the Lab prepares to launch a $25 million Direct Air Capture (DAC) Test Center that will identify promising technologies to separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from ambient air so the greenhouse gas can be safely and permanently stored deep underground or converted into value-added products. DAC is considered a grow  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 1 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2022: * * * En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC's Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures. * * * Today it only takes one and a half hours to make a superconducting particle accelerator at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory colder than outer space. "Now you cli  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, Sept. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory issued the following news release: Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) received a $3 million Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Basic Energy Science Program award to further fundamental research capable of enabling new pathways for hydrogen storage and production technologies. The award is part of DOE's recent announcement of awarding $540 million for university- and national la  more