WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following dissent by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. ER22-2341-000) involving Alabama Power Co., Georgia Power Co. and Mississippi Power Co.: * * * I dissent in part from today's issuance[1] to the extent that it concludes that Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company (collectively, Southern Companies) would not be in compliance with the   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Sept. 25, 2023, by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP22-138-000) involving Northern Natural Gas Co.: * * * I write separately to identify the specific aspects of today's order with which I concur and those elements from which I dissent. I. I Concur in Part with Today's Order. I concur in the Commission's decision to grant Northern Natural Gas Compa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Sept. 25, 2023, by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. RP19-78-007, et al.) involving Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. LP and Southwest Gas Storage Co.: * * * I dissent in part from today's order[1] because it does "not chang[e] the outcome of Opinion No. 885."[2] It "continue[s] to find that [Accumulated Deferred Income Tax (ADIT)] and [Excess Deferred I  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. CP20-55-000) involving Port Arthur LNG Phase II LLC: * * * I write separately to identify the specific aspects of today's order with which I concur and those elements from which I dissent. I concur in the decision to grant the requested authorization because I agree that "Port Arthur LNG Phase II's proposal is not inc  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: A groundbreaking experiment completed with NETL oversight is expected to generate important insights about the behavior of faults and other seismic activity when carbon dioxide (CO2) - a greenhouse gas - is injected into geologic formations. Completed at the Mont Terri Underground Research Laboratory in Switzerland, the experiment involved injecting wa  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: An innovative sensor technology, developed by NETL and its partners at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh-based company Sensible Photonics Inc. that can protect the Nation's energy infrastructure, help save lives, and save the economy billions of dollars by preventing electric service downtime has scored a 2023 R&D 100 award in the topic area of IT/  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: The demand for reliable and safe lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESS) necessitates the exploration of nonflammable phosphorus-based electrolytes as alternatives to the traditional flammable carbonate-based ones. However, integrating phosphorus-based electrolyte poses challenges, including c  more