CHICAGO, Illinois, April 29 (TNSres) -- Commonwealth Edison, a subsidiary of Exelon, issued the following news release on April 28, 2023: Community members and corporate and workforce partners joined ComEd today for a graduation ceremony celebrating the newest cohort to complete the CONSTRUCT Infrastructure Academy and Craft Academy job training programs. Today, more than 80 local residents graduated from these programs, which develop a skilled and diverse talent pipeline to support the clean e  more

PARIS, France, April 28 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release: GE Renewable Energy's Grid Solutions business (NYSE:GE) has won five Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) in recent months, reflecting customers' confidence in GE's technology to help them increase the power transfer capability and controllability of their alternating current (AC) grids. The contracts include a Fixed Series Compensation (F  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The General Services Administration issued the following news on April 27, 2023: Green roofs seem futuristic, like gardens and oases spread out over building tops that before were shimmering with heat. A federal agency like the U.S. General Services Administration might seem like an unlikely innovator in that scenario. But if you had to guess, would you say the federal agency that manages and leases more than 8,600 buildings nationwide has had green roofs for 20 years?  more

POKFULAM, Hong Kong, May 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: The University of Hong Kong (HKU) triumphed at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 19 awards, including two special grand prizes Invention & Innovation CAI Award (China Delegation), and Prize of the Delegation of Malaysia. The results were announced yesterday (April 28). Research teams from Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Sc  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 1 -- Mathematics, peer-reviewed open access journal that says it provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematical sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 11, No. 9 edition: Articles: * Evolutionary Optimization of Energy Consumption and Makespan of Workflow Execution in Clouds * Mean Estimation for Time-Based Surveys Using Memory-Type Logarithmic Estimators * On the Class of Risk Neutral Densities under Heston's Stochas  more

NEW YORK, April 28 -- The New York City Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release: New York City Economy Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has selected BOC Capital Corp. to provide training, technical assistance, and access to public contract opportunities to ConstructNYC participants. The ConstructNYC Program is designed to connect small-to-mid-sized minority/women-owned and otherwise disadvantaged business enterprises (M/W/DBEs) with exclusive opportunities to work on NYCEDC  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 29 (TNSres) -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: A new master agreement with ENOWA, a company tasked with pioneering sustainable energy and water innovations, will support Penn State research efforts in sustainable water solutions. The agreement could see up to $6 million invested into developing much-needed zero-waste water solutions. The agreement offers funding for up to 15 projects with five initial projects that will focus on des  more

WEINHEIM, Germany, May 1 -- Small Methods, a journal that says it features developments in experimental techniques, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 20, 2023 edition: Reviews: * Influence of Component Properties on the Photovoltaic Performance of Monolithic Perovskite/Organic Tandem Solar Cells: Sub-Cell, Interconnecting Layer, and Photovoltaic Parameters * Advanced Strategies in Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Materials with Different Compositions and Ph  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 (TNStalk) -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following statement on April 27, 2023: * * * Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on the House vote to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act: "We are deeply disappointed that the House voted to repeal the single most effective policy we have to create jobs and encourage domestic manufacturing. The Inflation Reduction Act has sparke  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * UCR study finds that keeping servers powered & cool at cloud data processing centers has high water costs * * * Every time you run a ChatGPT artificial intelligence query, you use up a little bit of an increasingly scarce resource: fresh water. Run some 20 to 50 queries and roughly a half liter, around 17 ounces, of fresh water from our overtaxed reservoirs is lost in th  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 1 -- Universe, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it focuses on fundamental principles in physics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its May 2023 edition: Articles: * Particles of Negative and Zero Energy in Black Holes and Cosmological Models * The Casimir Effect between Parallel Plates Separated by Uniaxial Media: The Effects due to the Orientation of the Optical Axis * Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in an M-Class Solar Flare * L  more