WASHINGTON, March 22 (TNSrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on March 21, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of its Pathways to Commercial Liftoff, a set of reports that represent a new department-wide initiative to strengthen engagement between the public and private sectors to accelerate the commercialization and deployment of key clean energy technologies. The reports provide the private sector and other industry partners a valuab  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP21-113-000) involving Alliance Pipeline L.P.: * * * I concur in the decision to grant Alliance Pipeline L.P.'s requested Natural Gas Act (NGA) section 7[1] authorization. First, as I have stated previously, the Commission should not lose sight of the limits of our authority under the NGA's public convenience and nec  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP22-41-000) involving Cameron LNG LLC: * * * I concur in the decision to grant Cameron LNG, LLC's requested Natural Gas Act (NGA) section 3[1] authorization. First, as I have stated previously, the Commission should not lose sight of the limits of our authority under the NGA.[2] The Supreme Court has explained that t  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP21-498-000) involving Columbia Gas Transmission LLC: * * * I concur in the decision to grant Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC's requested Natural Gas Act (NGA) section 7[1] authorization. Although I agree that the Commission must act "in accordance with our . . . statutory duties,"[2] we must always begin by examining  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP23-11-000) involving Florida Gas Transmission Co. LLC: * * * I concur in the decision to grant Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC's request to construct and operate the proposed facilities under its Part 157 blanket certificate.[1] First, although I agree that the Commission must act "in accordance with our . . .  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: After several years of planning and integration, the initial discard of uranium solution from the new Accelerated Basin De-inventory (ABD) mission at the Savannah River Site has been successfully transferred from the H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility to the SRS liquid waste program. This transfer marks the first of many of the ABD mission, which will result in a signifi  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL Director Brian Anderson discussed the Lab's ongoing efforts to advance carbon management technology in hard-to-decarbonize sectors of the economy such as steel and cement production and petrochemicals in a keynote address during Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Energy Week in Pittsburgh. CMU's Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation facilitates d  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is implementing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Section 40305 (Carbon Storage Validation and Testing) through its CarbonSAFE Initiative -- the agency's flagship effort to move carbon storage technologies into geographically widespread commercial practice. Federal f  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 23 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Following months of promising test results, battery researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are recommending that the solid-state battery industry focus on a technique known as isostatic pressing as it looks to commercialize next-generation batteries. Commercial-scale production of solid-state batteries is a goal for electri  more