AKRON, Ohio, May 22 -- FirstEnergy issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: To help drive its transformation to a premier electric company, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today announced the appointment of four new executives to oversee the company's Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey state electric company businesses and its stand-alone transmission companies: * John Hawkins - President, Pennsylvania, effective June 2 * Torrence Hinton - President, Ohio, effective June 24 * Doug Moko  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56958) involving Ametek Solidstate Controls: * * * Rep Org: Ametek Solidstate Controls Region: 0 Agreement: N NRC Notified By: Zach Rumora HQ OPS Officer: Thomas Herrity Notification Date: 02/09/2024 Notification Time: 16:13 [ET] Event Date: 12/13/2023 Event Time: 00:00 [] Last Update Date: 05/17/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 21.21(a)(2) - Interim Eval Of Devia  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Last night, May 20th, 2024, at 5:00 pm the South Carolina Public Service Commission held a public hearing to engage the public on the Duke Energy Carolinas rate hike request. The power company is asking the state Public Service Commission to grant a rate increase beginning this Summer. Before Monday's final public hearing on a proposed rate change case, several groups opposing Duke Energy's price hike and   more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSres) -- Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, an organization that engages Republican policymakers and the public in solutions to address the nation's energy, economic and environmental security, issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum today unveiled a white paper, "Growing the Industry for Clean Hydrogen," authored by CRES Forum Senior Policy Manager Rebecca Lorenzen. The paper highlights how hydrogen  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 21 -- WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 11990161 B2, initially filed May 23, 2023) developed by three inventors Joey M. Poss, Rochester, Minnesota; Naoto Ito, Kanagawa, Japan; and Phillip S. Haralson, Huntington Beach, California, for "Data storage device pre-biasing write current for energy assisted magnetic recording."  more

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 21 -- Dell Technologies, a company that says it provides technology and services portfolio for the data era, issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces the Dell AI Factory to give customers access to the industry's broadest AI portfolio, from device to data center to cloud1 and an open ecosystem of technology partners to create AI applications that meet their unique needs, through a traditional purchase or as a Dell APEX su  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSres) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Oil Change International released our Big Oil Reality Check report today in collaboration with over 200 organizations worldwide. The report assesses the climate pledges and plans of eight international oil and gas companies - Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, BP, Eni, Equinor, and ConocoPhillips - against 10 criteria representing the bare minimum for aligning with the Paris Agreem  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 21 -- CATERPILLAR INC., Peoria, Illinois has been assigned a patent (No. US 11990388 B2, initially filed Aug. 6, 2020) developed by six inventors Adam C. Grove, Washington, Illinois; Nirag Sheth, Peoria, Illinois; Umakanth Sakaray, Dunlap, Illinois; John M. Tanner, Dunlap, Illinois; Jeremy Byrd, West Lafayette, Indiana; and Gregory S. Hasler, Pekin, Illinois, for "Pump-motor assembly for an energy storage system."  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on May 21, 2024: * * * Today, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on growth in demand for electric power, citing increased domestic manufacturing, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and digitalization. The Sierra Club has experts available to speak with reporters about this topic and how clean energy can meet increased demand. In response to today's hearing, Sierra Club P  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Last night, May 20th, 2024, at 5:00 pm the South Carolina Public Service Commission held a public hearing to engage the public on the Duke Energy Carolinas rate hike request. The power company is asking the state Public Service Commission to grant a rate increase beginning this Summer. Before Monday's final public hearing on a proposed rate change case, several groups opposing Duke Energy's price hike and   more

WHITE PLAINS, New York, May 22 (TNSres) -- The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers issued the following news: * * * New technologies pop up in the media landscape all the time, and many of them, from the metaverse to artificial intelligence (AI), need a tremendous amount of energy to function. This inevitably leads to higher greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the infancy of this tech. To reduce the harm of this new tech, industry leaders have stepped up to find ways to make  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 22 (TNSres) -- The Salt River Project, a public power utility and electricity provider, issued the following news: SRP and Arizona State University have developed a new approach for estimating the water benefits of forest thinning treatments by creating a model that is being recognized as a leading-edge method for analyzing forest thinning's impacts on water. After a wildfire, rainfall washes ash and debris into rivers and reservoirs. The large amount of material that was  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 21 -- HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Houston, Texas has been assigned a patent (No. US 11987438 B2, initially filed Feb. 23, 2018) developed by four inventors Jim B. Surjaatmadja, Duncan, Oklahoma; Tim H. Hunter, Duncan, Oklahoma; Stanley V. Stephenson, Duncan, Oklahoma; and Thomas M. Logan, Norman, Oklahoma, for "Storage, transport, and delivery of well treatments."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 21 -- HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Houston, Texas has been assigned a patent (No. US 11987753 B2, initially filed May 12, 2021) developed by Chad A. Fisher, Cache, Oklahoma, and Wesley John Warren, Marlow, Oklahoma, for "Treatment of well stimulation proppants with depression additive based on predicted storage temperature."  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska's Judith Turk will use an $845,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program to dig into the degradation of topsoil. Agricultural productivity across the Great Plains is tied directly to the soil that covers it. Known to soil scientists as Mollisols, these thick, dark, organic-rich soils are inherently productive and fertile, he  more

LONDON, England, May 22 (TNSres) -- BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: * * * * The study details how the world can still meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and achieve net zero by mid-century * BNEF's updated Net Zero Scenario traces the route to keeping the world on track for well below two degrees of warming and net zero by 2050, but time is running out to pursue this path * The report shows nine keystone technologies that will make o  more