RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 4 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on June 3, 2025: * * * Governor Josh Stein Announces Western North Carolinians to Join Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (RALEIGH) Governor Josh Stein today announced two western North Carolinians who will join the Governor's Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW NC) and play a key role in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. "I am committed to bringing leaders  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 4 -- Gov. Josh Stein, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on June 3, 2025: * * * Governor Stein Announces a $11 Million Expansion for BSH Home Appliances in Craven County, Adding Nearly 200 Jobs (RALEIGH) Today Governor Josh Stein announced BSH Home Appliances Corporation (BSH), the home appliances division of the Bosch Group, will add 199 new jobs in Craven County. The company will invest more than $11 million to expand its New Bern facility into  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved Duke Energy Carolinas, Charlotte, North Carolina, annual adjustments to its Performance-Based Regulation riders. The "Order Approving Residential Decoupling Mechanism Rider, Earnings Sharing Mechanism Rider, and Performance Incentive Mechanisms Rider", issued on June 3, 2025, finalizes the rates for residential customers for the period of July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. This decision stems from DEC's application fil  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, June 4 (TNSjou) -- Christopher Newport University issued the following news: * * * A First: New CNU Chemical Compound Professor's discovery showcases University's scientific potential. By Kelli Caplan Christopher Newport University has reached new heights in the chemistry world, as a professor has created a groundbreaking compound that will forever be linked to the University. The novel chemical creation has been labeled TAF-CNU-1, in what appears to be the first ti  more

ALFRED, New York, June 4 -- Alfred University issued the following news release: * * * Alfred University offers short course on battery machine learning Alfred University's Inamori School of Engineering hosted a short course this week on battery machine learning, which was attended by a group of students and representatives of a Binghamton-area company that manufactures battery-powered forklifts. The Battery Machine Learning course was offered Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, May 21-23, as p  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 [Category: Energy] -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following news release: * * * ANALYSIS: Reconciliation Bill Risks Devastating Job Losses in Every U.S. State if Senate Fails to Change Course * Reconciliation legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May could jeopardize solar and storage jobs nationwide if the Senate fails to improve the House-passed rollback of clean energy tax credits. New state-by-state analysis released today   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- REJOULE INC., Signal Hill, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12320858 B2, initially filed Oct. 3, 2023) developed by three inventors Steven Chung, Stanton, California; Kenny Huynh, Stanton, California; and Russell Okamura, Stanton, California, for "Apparatus and method for characterizing and managing stacked energy storage cells."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- SOTERIA BATTERY INNOVATION GROUP, INC., Greenville, South Carolina has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322810 B2, initially filed Oct. 24, 2023) developed by Brian G. Morin, Greenville, South Carolina, and Carl C. Hu, Taylors, South Carolina, for "Battery connections and metallized film components in energy storage devices having internal fuses."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Seoul, South Korea has been assigned a patent (No. US 12320862 B2, initially filed July 14, 2021) developed by Hyun-Jun Lee, Daejeon, South Korea, for "Battery management system, battery pack, energy storage system and battery management method."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Seoul, South Korea has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322816 B2, initially filed Jan. 19, 2021) developed by five inventors Young-Bin Im, Daejeon, South Korea; In-Jae Gang, Daejeon, South Korea; Jong-Kyu Ahn, Daejeon, South Korea; Kyung-Hyun Bae, Daejeon, South Korea; and Jin-Kyu Shin, Daejeon, South Korea, for "Battery module, battery rack comprising same battery module, and power storage device."  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 [Category: Science] -- The Food and Water Watch posted the following news release: * * * Congress Must Support Budget Cuts to Faulty Carbon Capture Schemes White House FY '26 Spending Plan Seeks $6 Billion in Cuts; Separate Reconciliation Bill Still Includes Massive CCS Tax Giveaways to Polluting Industry  * Washington - In its fiscal year 2026 budget plan released Friday night, the White House proposed major cuts to federal carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) program  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- RAMBUS INC., San Jose, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12321234 B2, initially filed April 29, 2024) developed by three inventors Michael Raymond Miller, Raleigh, North Carolina; Stephen Magee, Apex, North Carolina; and John Eric Linstadt, Palo Alto, California, for "Energy efficient storage of error-correction-detection information."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- HUACHI KINETIC ENERGY (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, Beijing, China has been assigned a patent (No. US 12323034 B2, initially filed Jan. 17, 2023) developed by Zhiqiang Wang, Beijing, China, and Sen Su, Beijing, China, for "Energy storage flywheel and energy storage apparatus."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- SULZER MANAGEMENT AG, Winterthur, Switzerland has been assigned a patent (No. US 12320320 B2, initially filed Dec. 19, 2022) developed by three inventors Karel De Raeve, Winterthur, Switzerland; Thomas Welschinger, Radolfzell, Germany; and Bartosz Kus, Winterthur, Switzerland, for "Energy storage system."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, China has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322975 B2, initially filed Dec. 27, 2023) developed by Yanzhong Zhang, Shenzhen, China, and Xun Wang, Shenzhen, China, for "Energy storage system and photovoltaic energy storage system."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart, Germany has been assigned a patent (No. US 12320598 B2, initially filed July 6, 2021) developed by Andreas Schurz, Aichelberg, Germany, and Domenico Romano, Stuttgart, Germany, for "Heat conduction device for an electric energy storage of a motor vehicle."  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Battery Council International issued the following news release: * * * Lead Battery 360 welcomes eight sites as first certification participants Global program assessing lead battery production and recycling standards gets underway * The Lead Battery 360 Certification program (LB360), designed to promote sustainable and responsible production and material sourcing practices in the lead battery supply chain, has reached an important milestone as the first cohort of eigh  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- SOTERIA BATTERY INNOVATION GROUP, INC., Greenville, South Carolina has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322836 B2, initially filed July 9, 2021) developed by Brian G. Morin, Greenville, South Carolina, for "Lithium energy storage device with internal fuse."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES KOREA LIMITED COMPANY, Sungnam-Si, South Korea has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322970 B2, initially filed April 29, 2024) developed by JinWoo Lee, Cheongju-si, South Korea, and Bryon Roos Gomberg, Kfar Saba, Israel, for "Modular electrical energy storage with fault protection."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- LUNAR ENERGY, INC., Mountain View, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322822 B2, initially filed March 21, 2024) developed by nine inventors Christopher McCarthy, Salinas, California; Tahina Christine Felisca, Redwood City, California; Peter H. J. How, Mililani, Hawaii; Scott A. Whitman, San Francisco, California; Eamon Briggs, Soquel, California; Sanchita Sheth, San Jose, California; Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Fremont, California; Mark Daniel Goldman, Los A  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has been assigned a patent (No. US 12319588 B1, initially filed Dec. 4, 2024) developed by Babiker yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for "Nanocomposite material for energy storage devices."  more

ITHACA, New York, June 3 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * One tiny particle could complicate predictions of physics theorists * Picture an 11,000-pound elephant standing on a bathroom scale. Now imagine that scale is so precise, it can tell that you placed a couple of sunflower seeds on the elephant's back. That is the level of precision achieved by an international collaboration, including Cornell researchers, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National   more

WASHINGTON, June 3 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * PJM's Failure to Plan Sparks Pushback as Electric Bills Set to Jump 20% * Audubon, PA - As a response to rising energy bills due to PJM's poor planning and affinity for dirty, pricey fossil fuels, communities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware are rallying and voicing their discontent to the nation's largest regional transmission organization.  Sierra Club members and volunteers ra  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., Kyoto, Japan has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322562 B2, initially filed Aug. 18, 2020) developed by Akihito Umeda, Kyoto, Japan, and Takeyuki Shiraishi, Kyoto, Japan, for "Protective device, energy storage apparatus, and method for reducing contact resistance of relay."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- An inventor from Carlsbad, California, El-Ghoroury Hussein S. has been awarded a patent (No. US 12324270 B2, initially filed July 18, 2023) for "Quantum photonic energy storage cell and manufacturing methods thereof."  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- STRATEGIC STORAGE PARTNERS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, won a federal contract award for $2,802,714,522 from the Department of Energy, New Orleans, Louisiana, for facilities support services. Contract Award Number: 89243525CCR000073; ueiSAM: SJ65WNKH1WA4; NAICS Code: 561210; Product Service Code (PSC): R799; Solicitation Number: 89243523RCR000002  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- STORAGE DROP LTD, Rehovot, Israel has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322966 B2, initially filed Feb. 4, 2022) developed by Shay Cohen, Kfar Saba, Israel, for "System and method for storing energy, and for recovering stored energy by using liquid and gas as pistons."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- RONDO ENERGY, INC., Alameda, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12320277 B2, initially filed Jan. 4, 2024) developed by five inventors John Setel O'Donnell, Oakland, California; Peter Emery von Behrens, Oakland, California; Chiaki Treynor, Berkeley, California; Matthieu Jonemann, Redwood City, California; and Robert Ratz, San Jose, California, for "Thermal energy storage system with deep discharge."  more

SEATTLE, Washington, June 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Washington issued the following news release: * * * Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon Physicists use a theory called the Standard Model to describe how the universe works at its most fundamental level. Scientists from around the world have tested this theory in order to determine if there are other forces or particles we have not yet discovered. One test involves trying to precisely measur  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., Seoul, South Korea has been assigned a patent (No. US 12318644 B2, initially filed June 26, 2024) developed by ten inventors Mun-Seok Yang, Daejeon, South Korea; Ji-Hun Kim, Daejeon, South Korea; Hong-Jae Park, Daejeon, South Korea; Yo-Hwan Kim, Daejeon, South Korea; Sung-Han Yoon, Daejeon, South Korea; Ji-Won Lee, Daejeon, South Korea; Hyun-Min Lee, Daejeon, South Korea; Hyung-Uk Lee, Daejeon, South Korea; Seung-Jun Lee, Daejeon, South K  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY, Dammam, Saudi Arabia has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322546 B2, initially filed Sept. 27, 2023) developed by three inventors Emre Cevik, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; Fatimah Alahmari, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; and Ayhan Bozkurt, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, for "Zinc chromium vanadate spinel oxide (ZCVO) nanostructure-based electrocatalyst for energy generation and storage."  more