ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Meaningful research, supportive community for college students * * * Summer at Sandia National Laboratories typically means high temperatures, blazing sunlight and campuses filled with bright, eager interns. About 75 of these young innovators have come to Sandia this summer as part of the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Intern Institute.   more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 24 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * With a goal of securing US$146 billion in private investment by 2030, Indonesia needs to reevaluate its planning, procurement, and investment processes * * * Near-term renewable energy investments from the private sector worth US$146 billion are needed to achieve Indonesia's 2030 climate target, which requires urgent policy reformation to increase investor c  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 23 (TNSres) -- Georgia Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * AI4OPT and PSR partner to transform the energy sector, focusing on renewable energy integration and long-duration storage solutions. * * * This partnership in the advancement of AI and mathematical optimization to address pressing energy transformations in Latin America and the U.S. has formed between the NSF Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4O  more

BOONE, North Carolina, July 24 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: On Tuesday, the White House announced a new AmeriCorps initiative focused on dedicating more AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America members to energy communities in Virginia, West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Appalachian Ohio, among other locations. The AmeriCorps program has long supported VISTAs serving in the Appalachian region and energy communities, but this new initiative promi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partner institutions have launched a project to develop an innovative suite of tools that will employ machine learning algorithms for more effective cybersecurity analysis of the U.S. power grid. Distributed energy resource systems, which can range from solar panels to electric vehicles to   more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 23 -- The California Public Utilities Commission issued the following proposed decision (No. 12-01-008) on July 22, 2024: * * * BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Application of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (U902E) for Authority to Implement Optional Pilot Program to Increase Customer Access to Solar Generated Electricity. And Related Matters. DECISION DISMISSING PETITION FOR MODIFICATION AND CLOSING PROCEEDING Summary This d  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 (TNSres) -- The Center for International Environmental Law issued the following news: SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 23, 2024 -- Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) experts will be in Sofia, engaging in the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the UN body responsible for climate science -- from July 26 to August 2 and are available for comment. The IPCC meeting in Sofia aims to organize the work for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report   more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Components of Hickenlooper's BIG WIRES Act and SPEED & Reliability Act both included Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper cheered the bipartisan permitting proposal put forward by Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso, which includes key policies from Hickenlooper's BIG WIRES and SPEED &Reliability Act. The proposal aims to modernize what is all too often a decades-long timeline to build new transm  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, July 24 -- Duke Energy issued the following news release: * * * * Program to pair home solar installations with battery energy storage continues to help advance rooftop solar * Company is looking at ways to enhance pilot to make it available to more customers * * * Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) has enrolled more than 1,300 customers in North Carolina in its new PowerPairSM pilot, a one-time incentive-based program designed to help make a home solar plus battery system m  more

LONDON, England, July 24 -- EES Catalysis, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features research on energy and environmental catalysis, published research articles on the following topics in its July 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 2, Issue 4): * Advancements and opportunities in piezo-(photo)catalytic synthesis of value-added chemicals * Zeolite catalysts for non-oxidative ethane dehydrogenation to ethylene * Sulfur-regulated metal-support interaction boosting the  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 24 -- Emerson, a technology, software and engineering company that says it provides solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets, issued the following news release: * * * New automation architecture accelerates plant modernization with a more flexible and user-centric approach * * * PITTSBURGH (July 23, 2024) -- Global automation and technology leader Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is updating its industry-leading Ovation(TM) Automation Platform to  more

TORONTO, Ontario, July 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Toronto issued the following news: * * * New research from U of T's Faculty of Law examines the policy impact of climate concerns and worries * * * By Nina Haikara Concern and worry over climate change result in support for renewable energy but don't necessarily translate into opposition to fossil fuels, according to a study led by Steve Lorteau, doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Lorteau and researchers  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funded by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces 25 selected applications through the competitive Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program to tackle climate change, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice * * * LENEXA, KAN. (JULY 22, 2024) - Today, as part of the Biden-Harris administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection   more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 22, 2024: * * * Funded by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces selected applications through competitive Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program to tackle climate change, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice * * * Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the sele  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 22, 2024: * * * Funded by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces selected applications through competitive Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program to tackle climate change, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice * * * Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Wilderness Society issued the following news release: * * * We must responsibly deploy renewable energy projects on public lands * * * While two House bills, both entitled the Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act, are a promising step towards reaching the country's climate goals, requiring that renewable energy on public lands be sited responsibly upfront is key to preserving nature and wildlife and minimizing community opposition, which will lead to faste  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Water-soluble and reactive organic gases emitted when biomass burns are key unidentified sources of fine secondary organic aerosol particles in the atmosphere. * * * The Science Thousands of tiny particles in the atmosphere unseen by the naked eye scatter and absorb solar radiation and become one of the bases for the formation of clouds.  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, July 24 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut has joined the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Better Climate Challenge, becoming one of more than 50 organizations across the United States that are stepping up to the challenge and driving real-world action toward a low-carbon future. In joining the challenge, the state is committing to reduce portfolio-wide g  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 24 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on July 23, 2024: * * * Six projects in Maine will receive Federal funds through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve local electric grid infrastructure and technology * * * Governor Janet Mills today announced $6.6 million in grant awards to six Maine utilities and technology providers to deploy electrical grid resilience projects in Maine communities. The awards, selected through the Maine Grid Resilie  more

NEW YORK, July 24 -- The Journal of Central South University, a peer-reviewed journal that says it publishes metallurgical science and engineering, mineral processing, geology and mining, chemical, mechanical, electronic and information engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 31, Issue 6): * Research progress of permanent ferrite magnet materials * Effect of annealing temperature on microstructure and mechanical properties of Mg-Zn-Zr-Nd   more

LONDON, England, July 24 -- The Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers production of materials related to energy storage and conversion, sustainability or living, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 29). Here are excerpts: * * * * Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for writing an effective research paper * Ni-rich layered cathode  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, July 23 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued the following order (Case No. 2024-00099) on July 22, 2024: * * * In the Matter of: Electronic Application Of Weirs Creek Solar, LLC For A Certificate To Construct An Approximately 150 Megawatt Merchant Solar Electric Generating Facility In Webster County And Hopkins County, Kentucky Pursuant To KRS 278.700 And 807 KAR 5:110 SITING BOARD STAFF'S FIRST REQUEST FOR INFORMATION TO WEIRS CREEK SOLAR, LLC Weirs Creek So  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Los Alamos Scientists Used Machine Learning To Explore The Effects Of Cushion Gasses On Underground Hydrogen Storage * * * Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models -- an application of artificial intelligence -- to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios. This will play a v  more

LANSING, Michigan, July 24 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: The Michigan Public Service Commission today issued a series of orders to clarify processes associated with the interconnection of distributed energy resources such as solar and energy storage onto utility grids and also offered guidance on the implementation of the state's energy laws enacted in 2023. Case No. U-21569 et al. takes up Public Act 235's increase in the size of  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable. Solar panels made of perovskites may eventually play an important role amid global decarbonization efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the technology eme  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, issued the following remarks on July 23, 2024: * * * Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Ranking Member of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in opposition to the 2025 bill: - As Prepared for Delivery - Thank you, Mr. Chair, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. I would like to begin by thanking our diligent staff for all their hard work on this bil  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: Today, Representative Raul M. Grijalva (AZ-07) submitted an amendment to the appropriations funding bill, H.R. 8997 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The amendment, if adopted, would take $200 million in funding from the fossil fuel energy account and transfer it to the renewable energy account for the Renew America's Schools Program, which provides for the installation o  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: BOSTON On Monday, July 22, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden's Cabinet for America's more than 33 million small businesses, traveled to Boston alongside U.S. Senator Ed Markey, member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, to highlight the impact of Inflation Reduction Act investments in com  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy released the following testimony by Wiregrass Electric Cooperative CEO Brad Kimbro from a July 10, 2024, hearing entitled "The State of Rural Infrastructure: Emergency Response, Recovery, and Resilience": * * * Chairman Welch, Ranking Member Tuberville, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. On behalf of Wiregrass Electric Cooperative's more   more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 24 -- The Sacramento Municipal Utility District issued the following news release: * * * California Energy Commission funding supports SMUD's decarbonization goals * * * SMUD's long-duration battery storage project in partnership with ESS Tech, Inc. has been awarded a $10 million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate a groundbreaking 3.6-megawatt, 8-hour iron flow battery project and set the foundation for future large-scale battery deploymen  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, July 24 -- The North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network issued the following news release: * * * State leaders, media must tell North Carolinians we are not captive to Duke Energy's climate-wrecking PRO-Carbon Plan * * * Duke Energy's years-long strategy remains intact: to keep the public clueless about alternatives to the utility's climate-wrecking expansion of fossil fuels and its crushing of climate solutions. Will one of the world's largest climate po  more

SANTA CRUZ, California, July 24 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: By Ellen Vaughan and Sandra Messick During the 2023-24 academic year, UC Santa Cruz continued to make consistent progress in accelerating the path to decarbonizing the University's infrastructure focusing on the full decarbonization and electrification of the campus. Why ending fossil fuel use is vital Global climate disruption impacts the planet in ways never before experienced in   more

WASHINGTON, July 24 (TNSres) -- The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority issued the following news on July 23, 2024: * * * Inaugural ESG report highlights significant achievement * * * The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority released its inaugural Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Impact Report last week. Highlighting significant achievements throughout 2023, this new report incorporates narratives and metrics that better align with industry reporting standards. It replac  more