WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on May 10, 2023: As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $26 million for eight selected projects to demonstrate how solar, wind, storage, and other clean energy resources can support a reliable and efficient U.S. power grid. Funded by the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the projects will deploy innovative clean energy technologies at 15 s  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: Idaho National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have partnered with Idaho Power to evaluate the feasibility and advantages of making hydrogen at existing hydropower plants. Integrating hydrogen production with hydropower can enhance grid stability through energy storage, reoxygenate water for downstream environmental improvements and support decarboniz  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that this summer will see the second-most U.S. natural gas consumption for electricity generation on record, surpassed only by last summer. EIA continues to expect significant growth in U.S. electricity generation from wind and solar, but the wet winter in California and the western United States should also increase   more

WASHINGTON, May 11 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: After the Justice40 (J40) Initiative was established in 2021 by President Biden with the objective that 40% of benefits from certain federal investments go to disadvantaged communities, five scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a key role in mapping out how to achieve this goal in fede  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: As new technologies and processes are created to achieve the administration's goal of a net-zero greenhouse gas emission energy economy by 2050, a skilled NETL team takes precise steps to understand the innovations' environmental impacts through rigorous life cycle analysis (LCA) processes. The results help people make better decisions to improve and prot  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. More than three years ago, the Sandia-operated atmospheric measurement facility in Ala  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on May 9, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $40 million in funding for 15 projects that will develop high-performance, energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. Used to house computers, storage systems, and computing infrastructure, data centers account for approximately 2% of total U.S. electricity consumption while data center cooling can account for up to 40% of data center energy  more