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TNS Tipoffs - FERC Newsletter for Wednesday October 15, 2025 ( 6 items )  

PNNL: Army Microgrid Handbook Released, PNNL Issues Resilience Guide
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) issued the report 'Microgrid Handbook for Army Resilience: A Technical Review' (PNNL-38494), authored by Mike Hoffman (retired), Marcos Cruz, Jessica Kerby, Shahnawaz Siddiqui, Jianchuan Tan, and Marcus De La Rosa. The guide, prepared by PNNL under contract with the Office of the Chief of the Army Reserve for Energy and Sustainability, serves as an introduction to microgrids for Army Reserve energy system stakeholders.  more

PNNL: Automated Reactor Platform Synthesizes Metastable Materials
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) issued a report, 'Autonomous Synthesis of Metastable Materials Using a Modular Mixed-Flow Reactor', detailing the development of an automated platform to efficiently study short-lived chemical intermediates. The report, identified as PNNL-38447, was authored by Sebastian T. Mergelsberg, Maxim A. Ziatdinov, Shawn M. Kathmann, and John S. Loring. The work was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy. The research, iss  more

PNNL: Feasibility Study Backs Long-Duration Storage at Nine Canyon, But Market Risk Looms
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), in collaboration with ARES North America and Energy Northwest, issued the report 'Nine Canyon Long-Duration Energy Storage: A Feasibility Study' (PNNL-ACT-10151) in August 2025. The study's authors include Mukesh Gautam, Di Wu, Swasti Saxena, Corey Wiggins, Ross Rebich, Kazi Tamaddun, Rebecka Iveson, Diane Baldwin, Jeremiah Miller, Jessica Kerby, and Russ Weed. The report was prepared for the U.S. Department of En  more

PNNL: Feasibility Study Backs Solar, Storage, Microgrid Integration at Packwood Hydro Facility
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- A report titled 'The Packwood Solar, Storage, and Microgrid (PSSM) A Feasibility Study,' prepared for Energy Northwest (EN) and Lewis County Public Utility District (LCPUD) and issued in October 2025, details a techno-economic assessment of a hybrid energy project. The study, PNNL-ACT-10150, was led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with authors X Ma, W Wang, V Chalishazar, D Wu, D Baldwin, J Barcco (all from PNNL), R Rebich (Energy Northwest),  more

PNNL: Ion Exchange Study Tests Cesium Removal From Hanford Waste
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) released the report 'Ion Exchange Processing of AW-105 Hanford Tank Waste through Crystalline Silicotitanate in a Staged 2- then 3-Column System', PNNL-38102, Rev. 0, DFTP-RPT-046, Rev. 0. The report was authored by AM Westesen, AA Bachman, AM Carney, K Bhakta, TT Trang-Le, and RA Peterson. This work was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830 and was issued in September 20  more

PNNL: System Resilience Skyrockets as Targeted Incentives Boost Distributed Energy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (TNSLrpt) -- The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) issued a report titled 'Game Theory Approaches for System-level Incentive Design' (PNNL-38326) in September 2025, prepared by authors Wei Wang, Liping Li, Brittany Tarufelli, Sarah Newman, and Thiagarajan Ramachandran. The document presents a generalized Stackelberg game framework designed to evaluate financial incentives aimed at improving power system resilience. The core idea is to encourage communities to strat  more