PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 19 -- Arizona Public Service Co. issued the following news: Three municipalities in Northern Arizona impacted by the transition away from coal-fired power plants will receive a total of $125,000 in economic development grants from the Utilities' Grant Funding Program. Jointly funded by Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP), the program provides funding for critical grant writing, matching funds and technical assistance to   more

BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 19 -- Buildings, a peer-reviewed open access journal that focuses on building science, building engineering and architecture design, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 14, Issue 10): * Article - A Control Optimization Model for a Double-Skin Facade Based on the Random Forest Algorithm * Article - A Data Mining-Based Method to Disclose Usage Behavior Patterns of Fresh Air Systems in Beijing Dwellings during the Heating   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: With this round of funding, PA has received more than $735 million to clean up abandoned mine lands One third of the Nation's abandoned mine land is in Pennsylvania, impacting as many as 1.4 million residents in 43 of PA's 67 counties Funding to clean up abandoned mine land comes from Casey-backed infrastructure law Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) secured $245,082,772 to clean up abandoned mine lands ac  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Members of CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community groups, responded to the contract announced on Friday between the CHIPS for America Program Office and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for its facility in Phoenix, Arizona only the second CHIPS Act contract to be finalized. The coalition raised concerns ab  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 19 -- The Salt River Project, a public power utility and electricity provider, issued the following news: Salt River Project (SRP) and Flatland Storage LLC, a subsidiary of EDP Renewables North America LLC (EDPR NA) have entered into an agreement to provide 200 megawatts (MW) of new energy storage to Arizona's grid. The Flatland Energy Storage Project will be a 200 MW/800 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system located near Coolidge, Arizona. The project will utilize  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: Today, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP 29), U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins and Ukraine Minister of Energy German Galushchenko announced three project partnerships under the Foundational Infrastructure for the Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) program. These partnerships will help position Ukraine to  more