WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on March 1, 2023, by Commissioner Allison Clements on a decision (Docket Nos. ER22-983-000, ER22-983-001) involving ISO New England and New England Power Pool Participants Committee: * * * I concur with the Commission's Order because, importantly, it finds that ISO New England has not fully complied with Order No. 2222's metering and telemetry requirements. The Commission   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on March 2, 2023: NETL researchers have reported the successful use of microwaves to accelerate sorbent regeneration - results that can lead to substantial reduction of expensive water and energy requirements of some promising direct air capture (DAC) technologies. In a new paper published in January in Materials Today Sustainability, NETL researcher Fan Shi and   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Joanna Tannous has found the perfect organism to study to satisfy her deeply curious nature, her skills in biochemistry and genetics, and a drive to create solutions for a better world. The organism is a poorly understood life form that greatly influences its environment and is unique enough to deserve its own biological kingdom: fungi. Humans have for centuries pre  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Addressing mercury contamination at the Y-12 National Security Complex is one of the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management's (OREM) top priorities. Fortunately, Oak Ridge is home to some of the world's foremost researchers and experts on the topic, and they are partnering with OREM on solutions that can be used locally and beyond in the U.S. an  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 2, 2023: Environmental scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have recently expanded collaborations with minority-serving institutions and historically Black colleges and universities across the nation to broaden the experiences and skills of student scientists while bringing fresh insights to the national lab's missions. The   more