WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-31994-1, titled 'Demand Response in Residential Energy Code Technical Brief,' authored by V Salcido, Y Chen, K Cheslak, B Taube, E Franconi, M Rosenberg and M Young for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. The technical brief, dated January 2025, outlines how model residential energy codes can embed requirements for demand-responsive thermostats, water heaters and energy storag  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has issued the '2023 Billion-Ton Report: Assessment of U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources,' a comprehensive national resource assessment led by Matthew H. Langholtz of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators from national labs, universities and federal agencies. Published as an ORNL technical report in 2024, the document updates and extends earlier Billion-Ton studies by quantifying how much renewable biomass the United States co  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-38361, titled 'Use Case Specification,' authored by Michael Brown, Jay Barlow and Isabel Van Dyke for the U.S. Department of Energy, outlining how three power system "use cases" are guiding development of advanced co-design, modeling and simulation tools for the electric grid. Dated September 2025, the document describes how the E-COMP initiative is applying multi-objective optimization and power electro  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-31722, titled 'Recommendations for an Applicant to Calculate Activity Data for Greenhouse Gases Estimates,' authored by Saikat Ghosh for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830 and Interagency Agreement 31310019N0001, Task Order 3131002F0009 . Dated September 2024, the document provides voluntary guidance to help license applicants d  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report PNNL 38321, titled "CarbStor: Development, Analysis and Modification of Carbon Storing Model Soil Communities," describes a September 2025 project to engineer and analyze soil microbial consortia that convert carbon into stable inorganic and biomass forms, especially calcium carbonate. The work focuses on three knowledge gaps: whether defined microbial communities can reliably precipitate carbonate, which interspecies i  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued technical report PNNL-38353, titled 'Energy-efficient, Large-scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations via Hardware- and Algorithm-level Optimization,' authored by Xinyi Shen, Bruno Jacob, Anne Chaka, Yunxiang Chen, Amanda Howard, Elias Nakouzi, Sayan Ghosh, and Sebastien Kerisit and prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. Dated September 2025, the report describes a two-pronged strat  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has issued report PNNL-33891, titled 'Energy Efficiency Analysis and Grid Service Results for Commercial Buildings using the VOLTRON IoT Platform,' authored by R.G. Lutes and S. Katipamula and published in Richland, Washington, in 2024 for the U.S. Department of Energy. The document, made available online as a PNNL external technical report linked from the laboratory's Publications & Reports portal on December 31, 2025, detail  more