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

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, July 23 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued the following order (Case No. 2022-00372) on July 22, 2024: * * * In the Matter of: Electronic Application Of Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. For (1) An Adjustment Of Electric Rates; (2) Approval Of New Tariffs; (3) Approval Of Accounting Practices To Establish Regulatory Assets And Liabilities; And (4) All Other Required Approvals And Relief ORDER On July 15, 2024, Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. (Duke Kentucky) filed a mot  more

NEW YORK, July 23 [Category: Environment] -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following news release: (RALEIGH, N.C. July 23, 2024) New analysis shows that if Duke Energy succeeds at getting its current plan approved by the NC Utilities Commission the company's excessive reliance on gas-powered plants could come with a high price tag for customers. This new, forward-looking analysis comes on the heels of a retrospective look at Duke Energy's rate hike data, which revealed that increase  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

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

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

BOONE, North Carolina, July 24 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on July 23, 2024: HENDERSON, N.C. -- On Thursday, Aug. 1, community members impacted by the proposed Moriah Energy Center will hold a press conference to share their concerns about plans for the facility ahead of the Division of Air Quality's public hearing on the air permit application. The Moriah Energy Center is a liquified natural gas storage facility proposed by Dominion Energy to be built in Rougemont,   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

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

WASHINGTON, July 23 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters issued the following news release: The League of Conservation Voters led 20 environmental organizations in sending the below letter to the House of Representatives urging Members to oppose the following amendments to H.R. 8997, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025, when they come up for votes. The League of Conservation Voters will strongly consider including votes related   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 23 -- TERRAPOWER, LLC, Bellevue, Washington has been assigned a patent (No. US 12046382 B2, initially filed Sept. 20, 2021) developed by six inventors Roderick A Hyde, Redmond, Washington; Muriel Y Ishikawa, Livermore, California; Clarence T Tegreene, Bellevue, Washington; Joshua C Walter, Kirkland, Washington; Lowell L Wood, Jr., Bellevue, Washington; and Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, California, for "Method, system, and apparatus for the thermal storage of nuclear  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, July 23 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering and Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, led by Behnam Jafarpour, professor of chemical engineering and material science at USC, has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish a center for CO2 Storage Modeling, Analytics, and Risk Reduction Technologies (CO  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

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 23 -- INERTECH IP LLC, Plano, Texas has been assigned a patent (No. US 12047012 B2, initially filed Aug. 23, 2022) developed by Subrata K. Mondal, South Windsor, Connecticut, for "Systems and methods for isolated low voltage energy storage for data centers."  more

LONDON, England, July 24 (TNSres) -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, issued the following news release: People can reduce their risk of age-related dementia by exercising their brains properly instead of Googling, according to a leading Canadian academic. Professor Mohamed I. Elmasry says simple daily habits such as afternoon naps, memory 'workouts' and not reaching for a smartphone can increase the odds of healthy aging. His new book, iMind: Artificial and Real Intelligence (  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