WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to lead the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Blueprint Cohorts, a key technical assistance program offered to the nearly 2,700 state, Tribal, and local governments throughout the country eligible for EECBG funding. ACEEE, along with a team of partner organizatio  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, a journal from the American Chemical Society that says it serves the interdisciplinary community of chemists, engineers, physicists and biologists, published research articles on the following topics in its June 12, 2024, edition (Vol. 16, Issue 23): Reviews: * Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Technologies: Synthesis, Mechanisms, and Multifunctional Applications * Acceleration of Zeolite Crystallization: Current Status, Mechanisms, an  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- ACS Applied Energy Materials, a journal that says it covers all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its June 10, 2024 edition (Vol. 7, Issue 11): Letters: * Exploring the Temperature-Dependent Microelectrical Characteristics of Organic-Silicon Heterojunctions in the Absence of Luminance Articles: * Ultrafas  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Americans for Tax Reform issued the following commentary on June 12, 2024: * * * The 'PROVE IT Act' Is Another Tool in Biden's ESG Toolbox By Rowan Saydlowski If passed, the PROVE IT Act would serve as another tool for enforcing the radical ESG agenda pursued by President Biden, congressional Democrats, and leftwing activist groups. S. 1863, the PROVE IT Act, was introduced in August 2023 by a group of nine senators led by Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.). According to ne  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 12 -- The California Manufacturers and Technology Association issued the following agency statement on June 11, 2024: * * * In this week's Manufacturing Minute, we highlight three significant developments in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing Minute is powered by Tri Tool Technologies. U.S. Department of Energy Awards CMTA Member, Tandem PV, with New Funding CMTA member Tandem PV, a leader in perovskite solar technology, has been awarded $4.7 million by the   more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Rep. Sean Casten, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Today, U.S. Congressman Sean Casten (IL06) led 15 Colleagues in a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to highlight the success of the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office (LPO). "LPOfinanced projects have created almost 47,000 permanent jobs, generated over 104 million megawatthours of clean electricity, and resulted in more than $50 billion in total project investments," the lawmak  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management issued the following news release on June 11, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced six projects selected to receive approximately $9.3 million in federal funding to develop cutting-edge technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization,  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security released the following written testimony by Tom Hassenboehler, chair of the Advisory Council for the Electricity Customer Alliance, from a hearing dated June 4, 2024, entitled "Powering AI: Examining America's Energy and Technology Future": * * * Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Duncan, Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette, Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Committee Ranking Member   more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, June 13 -- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that says it covers electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 39, Issue 3). Here are excerpts: * * * * A Power System Reliability Framework Considering Soil Drying-Out Effect on Underground Cables * Simultaneous Local Identification of Theven  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 13 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * Key Takeaways: * Renewable energy sources now provide 9% of Puerto Rico power, due to individual households and businesses. * The growth in renewables--especially solar and batteries--is a response to the inability of the island to provide affordable and reliable electricity. * Puerto Rico's transition to renewable energy is threatened by federal regulators  more

BELLINGHAM, Washington, June 13 -- The Journal of Photonics for Energy, a journal that says it features photonics for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, monitoring, consumption and efficient usage from the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 14, No. 2): Materials and Device Modeling and Simulation: * Enhancing solar laser performance through multirod configurations   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) has selected three communities to receive nearly $3.7 million (corrected amount) in project development assistance under the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) Program. OE launched ES4SE in 2021 providing $9 million to help underserved and frontline communities leverage energy storage to increase  more

SWANSEA, Wales, June 12 (TNSres) -- Swansea University issued the following news: A Swansea University PhD student has successfully won the Swansea University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition final. The event took place as part of the Postgraduate Research (PGR) Festival, a month-long series of events showcasing the cutting-edge research conducted by Swansea University students. Oli Fryatt, who is studying for a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, emerged victorious over 13 other postgraduate  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Heinrich to highlight how legislation he helped pass has ignited a manufacturing renaissance in New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), will hold a hearing today, June 12, at 1:00 p.m. MT titled "Made in America: The Boom in U.S. Manufacturing Investment" to explore the ongoing boom in advanced manufacturing and the impact that these   more

DURHAM, North Carolina, June 13 -- The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network issued the following news release: Amid a ghastly global escalation of crippling heat waves, wildfires and superstorms, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week that world leaders must quickly find "an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell." He slammed fossil fuel corporations as the "godfathers of climate chaos." In North Carolina, one of the largest of those corporate godfa  more