WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $42 million for 15 projects across 11 states to improve the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the domestic power grid through the development of next-generation semiconductor technologies. Funded through DOE's Unlocking Lasting Transformative Resiliency Advances by Faster Actuation of power Semiconductor Technologies (ULTRAFAST) progra  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Conceptual art depicts machine learning finding an ideal material for capacitive energy storage. Its carbon framework shown in black, has functional groups with oxygen, shown in pink, and nitrogen, shown in turquoise. Credit: Tao Wang/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed   more