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TNS Tipoffs - FERC Newsletter for Wednesday November 16, 2022 ( 3 items )  

Ames Laboratory: New Discoveries Made About A Promising Solar Cell Material, Thanks To New Microscope
AMES, Iowa, Nov. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory issued the following news release: A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells. Under the leadership of Jigang Wang, senior scientist from Ames Lab, the team developed a microscope that uses terahertz waves to collect data on material samples. The team   more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Advanced Light Source Upgrade Approved To Start Construction
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2022: The Advanced Light Source (ALS), a scientific user facility at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has received federal approval to start construction on an upgrade that will boost the brightness of its X-ray beams at least a hundredfold. "The ALS upgrade is an amazing engineering undertaking that is going   more

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: National Laboratories Launch Buildings Consortium Leveraging Benefits Of Thermal And Electrochemical Energy Storage For All Americans
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Stor4Build is a new consortium focused on energy storage for buildings that will accelerate the growth, optimization and deployment of storage technologies. The consortium will be co-led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory along with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley. Cost-effective energy storage is necessar  more