INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Aug. 24 -- The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following agenda: * * * TO: Commission Chairman James F. Huston, Commissioners Bennett, Freeman, Veleta and Ziegner FROM: Commission Technical Divisions DATE: August 23, 2024 RE: 30-Day Utility Articles for Conference on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m. The following thirty-day filings have been submitted to the Commission. Each item was reviewed by the appropriate Commission Technical Divisions a  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Aug. 24 -- The Kentucky Public Service Commission issued the following order (Case No. 2024-00152) on Aug. 23, 2024: * * * In the Matter of: Electronic Application Of Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. For A Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity To Convert Its Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization System From A Quicklime Reagent Process To A Limestone Reagent Handling System At Its East Bend Generating Station And For Approval To Amend Its Environmental Compliance Plan For Recove  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Southern Shrimp Alliance, Tarpon Springs, Florida. Here are excerpts: * * * TO: Elizabeth A. Klein, Director Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 1849 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 RE: Public notice of an unsolicited request for a Commercial Outer Continental Shelf Wind Lease, request for competitive interest, and re  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Aug. 23, 2024: * * * A new family of integrated rock salt-polyanion cathodes opens door to low-cost, high-energy storage. * * * By Peter Reuell, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering For the past decade, disordered rock salt has been studied as a potential breakthrough cathode material for use in lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy storag  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has released the following public communication dated Aug. 22, 2024, from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Portland, Oregon: * * * To: Ms. Julia Hegarty U.S. Department of Energy Appliance and Equipment Standards Program Building Technologies Office EE-5B, 1000 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20585-0121 Re: Docket Number EERE-2017-BT-STD-0019, Energy Conservation Standards  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released the following public communication dated July 22, 2024, from United Steelworkers Union: * * * Comments of the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial, and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO (USW) On the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Proposed Rule, Request for Comments on Emergency Res  more