WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $38 million in funding to develop sustainable carbon-containing liquids from renewable energy through the Grid-free Renewable Energy Enabling New Ways to Economical Liquids and Long term Storage (GREENWELLS) program. Managed by the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the new progra  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The AI agent, incorporating a language model-based molecular generator and a graph neural network-based molecular property predictor, processes a set of user-provided molecules (green) and produces/suggests new molecules (red) with desired chemical/physical properties (i.e. excitation energy). Image credit: Pilsun Yoo, Jason Smith/ORNL, U.S. DOE A team of computatio  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced the third opening of a five-year $2.25 billion funding opportunity available through President Biden's Investing in America agenda to support the transport and permanent storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial and power generation facilities,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: * * * Participants from 28 States and Territories will Convene for 6 Months to Learn about Energy Resilience, Buildings Efficiency, and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure from Each Other and National Laboratory Experts * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced leaders from 46 entities will collaborate on common clean energy o  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) announced that the U.S.-India Energy Storage Task Force (ESTF) hosted a virtual launch event on December 13. The public-private ESTF was first announced at the October 2022 meeting of the U.S.-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP), and was established by DOE and the Indian Ministry of Power (  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity today announced a $7 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to enhance the electric power systems' reliability and resilience via grid-enhancing data analytics demonstrations for operations, monitoring and control. DOE will select up to seven projects that demonstrate the various ge  more

BERKELEY, California, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Energy Sciences Network issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2023: The Confab23 gathering in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was the place to be in mid-October for Department of Energy (DOE)-funded domain scientists, computer scientists, network engineers, DOE program managers, and user facility staff interested in co-designing the future of integrated science together. Confab23 was the second such user-community gat  more

LIVERMORE, California, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Verne, a San Francisco-based startup, have demonstrated a cryo-compressed hydrogen storage system of suitable scale for heavy-duty vehicles. This is the first time cryo-compressed hydrogen storage has been demonstrated at a scale large enough to be useful for semi trucks, a milestone in high-densit  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature on Dec. 12, 2023: * * * A new nickel-rich, single-crystal battery technology is on track for rapid deployment * * * A seemingly simple shift in lithium-ion battery manufacturing could pay big dividends, improving electric vehicles' (EV) ability to store more energy per charge and to withstand more charging cycles, according to new research led by the Departme  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: Savannah River Site's (SRS) H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility has reached a new milestone in support of the disposal of Fast Critical Assembly (FCA) nuclear material following years of preparation and collective efforts from multiple Site contractors by dissolving "dummy cans," non-radioactive stainless steel containers similar to what holds actual FCA plutonium. "This   more