WASHINGTON, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released details for 35 projects across 20 states that voluntarily shared with DOE they received a total of $1.93 billion in allocations of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C). 48C is an allocated tax credit funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda through the Inflation Reduction Act, aimed at accelerating clean energy manufacturing and recycl  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Representatives of the Womanium Foundation, an organization that encourages girls and women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), visited NETL along with officials of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory's Pittsburgh-based Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory to discuss potential collaborative efforts. NETL Director Marianne Walck, Ph.  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced $8 million in federal funding for 14 projects to advance technologies that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial facilities and power plants and convert those CO2 emissions into valuable products. Advancing the development of these technologies will he  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced the selection of five research and development (R&D) projects to receive nearly $8 million for the treatment and management of produced water--or wastewater associated with oil and natural gas development and production--and the management of legacy wastewate  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract The war in Ukraine caused Europe to more than double its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in only one year. In addition, imported LNG remains a crucial source of energy for resource-poor countries, such as Japan, where LNG imports satisfy about a quarter of the country's primary energy demand. However, an increasing numbe  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Radiation-topography interaction plays an important role in surface energy balance over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). However, the impacts of such interaction over the TP on climate locally and in the Asian regions remain unclear. This study uses the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) to evaluate the regional and teleconne  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Eutectic solvents, with high salt concentrations and suppressed volatility, are promising alternatives to aqueous and volatile organic electrolytes for grid-scale energy storage devices such as redox flow batteries (RFBs). However, it is not known a priori which hydrogen bond acceptors and donors would form a eutectic solvent a  more