WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (TNSFR) -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is reviewing a request to modify water flow from the Lookout Shoals Hydroelectric Project in North Carolina. Duke Energy Carolinas LLC seeks a temporary variance from the plant's standard flow requirements to conduct maintenance. The application, which was submitted to FERC, outlines a plan to deviate from the usual 80 cubic feet per second (cfs) minimum continuous flow from mid-September through February 28, 2026. This per  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (TNSDok) -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission, Frankfort, is seeking information from Duke Energy Kentucky Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, regarding a special contract and a recurring voltage problem. The request, issued as part of a docket titled "Electronic Application of Duke Energy Kentucky Inc. for Approval of a Special Contract and for Waiver of 807 KAR 5:041, Section 6(2)(C)" (Case No. 2025-00054), requires the company to provide answers by September 5, 2025. The commiss  more

BOONE, North Carolina, Aug. 13 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Local residents, grassroots organizations call on North Carolina regulators to deny Mountain Valley Pipeline's water permit application for Southgate project * August 13, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, (276) 289-1018, dan@appvoices.org EDEN, N.C. -- On Tuesday, Aug. 12, community leaders, grassroots organizations and members of the public spoke out agai  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 13 -- The City University London Bayes Business School issued the following news: * * * Putin sparked two electricity pricing bubbles in exposed European markets, study finds Bayes study reveals price bubbles in European electricity markets in 2021 and 2022 were driven by political events rather than the weather - but some countries took longer to recover than others. By Chris Mahony Geopolitical shocks are much more likely to trigger price bubbles in the British and E  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release: * * * Fuel rods manufactured by Global Nuclear Fuel to be evaluated at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory WILMINGTON, North Carolina (August 13, 2025) - High burnup fuel rods, manufactured by Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF, a GE Vernova-led joint venture with Hitachi, Ltd.) have been delivered to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for examinatio  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Aug. 13 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: * * * Nation's top energy leaders and policy experts to highlight Tulane's Future of Energy Forum Tulane University will convene a powerhouse lineup of leading energy executives, researchers, policy experts and innovators for its second annual Future of Energy Forum, Sept. 10-12, a free three-day event exploring the biggest challenges and opportunities shaping the energy sector in Louisiana and across the   more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Aug. 14 -- Chemours, a provider of titanium technologies, fluoroproducts and chemical solutions, issued the following news release: * * * Samsung Electronics Successfully Qualifies Chemours' Opteon Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Fluid Represents a key step in market adoption of Chemours' liquid cooling solution * Wilmington, DE - August 13, 2025 - The Chemours Company (Chemours) (NYSE: CC), a global chemistry company, announced the successful qualification of its Opteon t  more

MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 13 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * New pound sterling13m nuclear programme to boost UK energy security through sustainable graphite innovation The University of Manchester has been awarded a major grant to lead a new programme that will transform the lifecycle of graphite in nuclear energy - an essential material for the future deployment of nuclear power. The award brings together world-leading expertise led by The Universit  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 13 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * 'Like the Piano Tuners of Quantum Computers' A startup co-founded by Daniel Lidar, a pioneer in quantum computing, is producing software to unlock quantum's considerable potential. By Marc Ballon As a physics Ph.D. student at Hebrew University in Israel in the '90s, Daniel Lidar met a fellow graduate student studying quantum computing, then in its infancy.  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 13 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Using Sound to Remember Quantum Information * While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits. These can have a state that is simultaneously both 0 and 1\. This odd property, a quirk of quantum physics known as superposition, lies at the heart of quantum computing's pr  more