MADISON, Wisconsin, Jan. 17 -- Alliant Energy issued the following news release: Alliant Energy announced the successful completion of its Crawfish River Solar Project in the Jefferson County town of Jefferson. Construction on the project began in spring 2022 and employed over 400 workers at its peak. The 75-megawatt (MW) solar array consists of more than 200,000 solar panels and can produce enough energy to power approximately 20,000 homes annually. "Placing the Crawfish River Solar Project i  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: PHOENIX -- The Bureau of Land Management will begin a 30-day public scoping period to inform the environmental analysis of the proposed Pinyon Solar Project in southern Maricopa County. The project would produce up to 200 megawatts of utility-scale renewable energy from solar photovoltaic modules on 1,730 acres of public land. The scoping period will begin on Jan. 30. The BLM  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Carson City, Nev - Longroad Energy Management, LLC will be hosting two virtual public meetings to discuss the proposed Artemesia solar photovoltaic solar generation and energy storage project on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, and Thursday. February 1, 2024. This project would be in Lyon County approximately seven miles northwest of Yerington, NV. Artemesia Solar, LLC, a wholly ow  more

OTTAWA, Ontario, Jan. 17 -- The Canadian Union of Public Employees issued the following news: Radio-Canada has just learned that aluminum giant Rio Tinto will be developing a huge wind farm in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean to meet its own needs. Like the TES project in Mauricie where wind and solar energy is used to meet its hydrogen production, projects to privatize electricity production are in vogue. "The CAQ has been talking to us about it, and we'd best listen. They've been telling us loud and   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation issued the following news release: Governments around the world are embracing the promise of "clean hydrogen" as part of the green transition to address climate change. But a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the leading think tank for science and technology policy, cautions that clean hydrogen is expensive to produce, difficult to transport, and a second- or third-bes  more

LONDON, England, Jan. 17 -- The Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers production of materials related to energy storage and conversion, sustainability or living, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 3): * Advances in the structural engineering and commercialization processes of hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries * Advances in bismuth-based anodes for potass  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Yuhua Duan, Ph.D., a research physical scientist at NETL, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a professional society based in the United Kingdom with more than 54,000 members worldwide. RSC awards the designation of Fellow to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences. RSC, founded in the U  more

SANTA MONICA, California, Jan. 17 -- Rand issued the following commentary on Jan. 16, 2024: * * * The U.S. Must Close the Long-Distance Power Transmission Gap with China By Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, Fiona Quimbre, Henri van Soest, Avery Krovetz In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a triennial report (PDF) that revealed, among other things, that the U.S. transmission system, as currently built, is already at or near capacity across several states, including Texas and A  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, released the Committee's 2023 year-in-review. Under Senator Manchin's leadership, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee reported or ordered reported 59 bills in 2023, including Chairman Manchin's Nuclear Fuel Security Act and Amer  more

PASADENA, California, Jan. 16 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: One year ago, Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) launched into space to demonstrate and test three technological innovations that are among those necessary to make space solar power a reality. The spaceborne testbed demonstrated the ability to beam power wirelessly in space; it measured the efficiency, durability, and function of a variety of different types of solar cells in space  more

LONDON, England, Jan. 17 -- Sustainable Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features the development of sustainable energy technologies, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 8, Issue 2): * Low-cost transition metal-nitrogen-carbon electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction: operating conditions from aqueous electrolytes to fuel cells * An efficient particulate photocatalyst for ove  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 17 -- Tucson Electric Power issued the following news release: Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and UniSource Energy Services are seeking new generation facilities, energy storage systems and other resources such as energy efficiency through a joint all-source request for proposals (ASRFP) that seeks submissions by March 8, 2024. The joint ASRFP, issued in December 2023, targets resources to support the companies' 2023 integrated resource plans (IRPs), which describe how each   more

BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan. 16 -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: The University of Nottingham's Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Research Group has been announced as a member of the Chilean Institute of Clean Technologies, making it the first UK institution to join the programme. The $123 million project, which is one of the biggest in the history of Chile, aims to develop advanced technologies for sustainable mining in areas including hydrogen, sol  more

TUBINGEN, Germany, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Tubingen issued the following news release: * * * Dependence on coal and gas could be overcome in Africa first - study examines requirements for a post-fossil-fuels scenario * * * A joint study by the University of Tubingen, the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, the University of Osnabruck and the University of Rwanda has found that 80 percent of the energy required in Africa could come from renewable sources by 2040 - if the ca  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: Graham Steele, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Over the past few years, the field of community finance has been transformed both by the historic scale of federal investments and policies focused on supporting equitable economic growth. During the Biden-Harris Administration, the Treasury Department has focused on unlocking the economic potential of financially underserved communities ac  more