WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news on Aug. 2, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) has selected two companies to receive $19 million in awards to demonstrate long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects in remote communities and military housing. The companies will receive funding to show how energy storage can lower electricity bills and increase power reliability i  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 14, 2023 Staff Activity: Headquarters staff members A. Hutain, P. Natividad, and E. Tetteh were on-site to observe the annual emergency preparedness exercise. Hanford resident  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: As part of its mission to advance energy innovation, NETL organized and maintains a growing information-sharing consortium of researchers from sister national laboratories, private companies, federal agencies, and academia to gain a greater technical understanding of how to use ammonia in combustion processes like industrial furnaces, internal combustion engines a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Seven entrepreneurs will embark on a two-year fellowship as the seventh cohort of Innovation Crossroads kicks off this month at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Representing a range of transformative energy technologies, Cohort 7 is a diverse class of innovators with promising new companies. New to Innovation Crossroads' sponsorship   more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 3 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * The long - but not too long - cavity would ping-pong X-ray pulses inside of a particle accelerator facility to help capture nature's fastest movements. * * * At particle accelerator facilities around the world, scientists rely on powerful X-rays to reveal the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules. Now, researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerato  more