ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 16 -- Bernalillo County issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2024: Bernalillo County - Bernalillo County proudly welcomed a delegation from Costa Rica on Wednesday as part of the New Mexico National Guard's Partner Nation Exchange Program. This engagement is part of a broader initiative supported by the U.S. Military's Southern Command to strengthen international partnerships and exchange best practices. The visit focused on sharing strategies to preserve  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: Today, at the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Summit in Bellevue, WA, the Office of Electricity (OE) announced 12 selectees of the inaugural Storage Acceleration Vouchers to help solve pressing energy storage technology and deployment challenges. These selectees represent start-ups, utilities, EV innovators, builders, and electricity industry entrepreneurs that may no  more

ELLSWORTH AFB, South Dakota, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Ellsworth Air Force Base (28th Bomb Wing) issued the following news: By Senior Airman Josephine Pepin, 28 Bomb Wing Public Affairs The Rural Energy Storage Deployment Program finished its final battery by installing and commissioning a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Box Elder, South Dakota, 22 July, 2024. The project is a backup power source to provide resilience for Ellsworth Air Force Base's and Rapid City Regional Airport'  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Seasoned national laboratory scientist and leader Laura Berzak Hopkins joins the U.S. Department of Energy 's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as its new associate laboratory director for strategy and partnerships and deputy chief research officer. She previously served as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) associate program director for integrated w  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on Aug. 13, 2024: * * * The Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-1000 Dear Secretary Granholm: In recent years, several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defense nuclear facilities have assessed the use of large lithium-ion batteries for applications ranging from heavy vehicles to emergency power backup systems  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * US-Japanese partnership approaches an atomic clock breakthrough * * * All clocks are ticking down to an argument about the time. Imperceptibly, they gain or lose fractions of a second. Gradually, they drift apart until someone reads the time aloud, and somebody with a different clock begs to differ. Unless clocks are periodically synchronized, dr  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Quantum sensing milestone draws closer exquisitely accurate, GPS-free navigation * * * Peel apart a smartphone, fitness tracker or virtual reality headset, and inside you'll find a tiny motion sensor tracking its position and movement. Bigger, more expensive versions of the same technology, about the size of a grapefruit and a thousand times more   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Sandia researcher recognized for electrification work with tribal communities * * * Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been honored with the A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification Excellence Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his leadership and innovation in the rural electrification of U.S. triba  more