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TNS Tipoffs - FERC Newsletter for Thursday April 18, 2024 ( 4 items )  

1.15 Billion Artificial Neurons Arrive at Sandia
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: * * * Setting up house for brain-based computing * * * In a groundbreaking stride toward the future of computing, early this year Sandia National Laboratories researchers welcomed the arrival of an extraordinary brain-based computing system called Hala Point. Packed with a staggering 1.15 billion artificial neurons -- believed to be the bigges  more

Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago Launch the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability
ARGONNE, Illinois, April 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * The Partnership honors the memory of George Crabtree, a noted researcher and leader in superconducting and clean energy * * * The George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability, a new hub for scientific innovation and education, launched on April 17 in Chicago. The collaboration between the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and the U.S. D  more

FERC Commissioner Clements Issues Dissent on Gas Transmission Northwest
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following dissent on April 17, 2024, by Commissioner Allison Clements on a decision (Docket No. CP22-2-001) involving Gas Transmission Northwest LLC: * * * I dissent from today's order on rehearing[1] of the Commission's order issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Gas Transmission Northwest, LLC (GTN) for its GTN Xpress Project.[2] I do so for three principal reasons.   more

Office of Fossil Energy: DOE Announces $1.5 Million Toward Carbon Dioxide Removal
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced five finalists to receive a total of $1.5 million for developing commercialization programs that support technologies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution by removing it directly from the atmospher  more