WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news on Sept. 10, 2024: As part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of six projects totaling $11.6 million funded by the Inflation Reduction Act in the second round of a program that will improve planning, siting, and permitting processes for large-scale renewable ene  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news on Sept. 10, 2024: * * * Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) will engage communities in energy planning, natural disaster preparedness, and analysis of renewable technologies, including solar, wind, battery storage, and heat pumps. * * * Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomed 25 new coastal, remote, and island communiti  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following Activity Report for the Week Ending Aug. 16, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending August 16, 2024 Radiochemical Processing Laboratory (RPL): A worker found radiological contamination on their hands while surveying out of the radiological buffer a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Hanford issued the following Activity Report for the Week Ending Aug. 23, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: B. Caleca, P. Fox, and P. Meyer, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Hanford Activity Report for the Week Ending August 23, 2024 DNFSB Staff Activity: M. Sautman, Associate Technical Director for Field Operations (ATDFO), was onsite to observe and evaluate resident inspector a  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued the following news release: The economic impact of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) topped $1.9 billion nationwide in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder's (CU Boulder's) Leeds School of Business. Every state in the nation felt an impact from direct or indirect spending connected to NREL, but the econo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: * * * Deployment of Detection Systems Would Further Hydrogen Production and Transportation * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $18 million for 9 projects to enable the growth of hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels. Hydrogen is increasingly seen as a clean energy sour  more