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TNS Tipoffs - FERC Newsletter for Tuesday April 09, 2024 ( 3 items )  

DOE Argonne National Laboratory: New Study Shows Renewable Energy Could Work as Power Source at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
ARGONNE, Illinois, April 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Renewable energy could partially replace diesel fuel to power instruments and provide heat at the South Pole * * * For almost as long as humans have spent time in Antarctica, the continent has been a home for science. One of the research outposts located there is the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The science done there includes studies of climate ch  more

DOE Awards $15M to Launch Innovations for Long Duration Energy Storage Earthshot
WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news on April 8, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the selectees of $15 million in awards at the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council Summit on April 8, 2024. These awards are through the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to advance energy storage innovat  more

First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A first-ever dataset bridging molecular information about the poplar tree microbiome to ecosystem-level processes has been released by a team of Department of Energy scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The project aims to inform research regarding how natural systems function, their vulnerability to a changing climate, and ultimately how plants might be   more