WASHINGTON, March 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates an average of about 99 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas will be consumed in the United States during the first quarter of this year--the least for any first quarter since 2018. This year, January and February are likely to be among the warmest on record, which led to significantly lower heating de  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following weekly report: * * * TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, N. Huntington, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending February 17, 2023 Solid Waste Operations Complex (SWOC): Project management completed an Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) Determination and confirmed that a USQ exists (see 2/  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 7, 2023: Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating - called HOS-PFM - that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. "The advance opens up a new approach to developing EV batteries that are more affordable and easy to manufacture," said G  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researchers who asked the question -- "How can we use coal without burning it and generating greenhouse gas?" -- have been awarded a U.S. patent for an invention that transforms coal into a game-changing material to manufacture valuable products and generate jobs in coal communities as the nation transitions to clean energy. The recently patented NETL inven  more