WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Raleigh, NC Duke Energy Carolinas & Progress saw a slight improvement in the Sierra Club's Dirty Truth report card this year, but its score could regress if the utility follows through on its short-sighted plans to add new gas-burning power plants and burn more coal. Duke Energy Carolinas & Progress earned 0% (F) in the inaugural Dirty Truth report in 2021. Its score has improved incrementally to   more

RIVERSIDE, California, Nov. 20 -- Bourns, a manufacturer and supplier of electronic components, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Riedon Model BR/BRT, BRS and UWP Series Braking Resistors by Bourns feature power ratings up to 500 W and extended temperature range up to +275 C * * * Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today announced it has increased its line of Riedon Power Resistors w  more

TAKOMA PARK, Maryland, Nov. 19 -- The Chesapeake Climate Action Network issued the following news release on Nov. 18, 2024: RICHMOND, VA -- A coalition of 34 groups from across the mid-Atlantic region today released a letter announcing their united opposition to a new proposal by PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM) that could fast-track natural gas projects in the regional interconnection queue. The coalition, which represents hundreds of thousands of environmental and clean energy activists in the   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Nov. 20 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary on Nov. 18, 2024: * * * The Paradox of Energy Efficiency is a Good Thing, Actually Written by Sarah Montalbano A Wall Street Journal article (https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/energy-efficiency-carbon-emissions-climate-struggles-  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Nov. 19 -- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CLEAN-AND-LOW-CARBON ENERGY, Beijing, China has been assigned a patent (No. US 12149083 B2, initially filed Oct. 20, 2021) developed by five inventors Ratnesh Sharma, Fremont, California; Surinder Singh, Fremont, California; Brandon Ohara, Mountain View, California; Motoko Furukawa, San Jose, California; and Roger Keyes, Mission, Kansas, for "Controller and method for balancing discharge or charge of battery packs in energy storage system."  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Nov. 20 -- Emerson, a technology, software and engineering company that says it provides solutions for customers in industrial, commercial and residential markets, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Strategic investment supports advanced AI software for rapid production testing of batteries * * * Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today announced it has made a strategic investment through its corporate venture capital arm Emerson Ventures in EECOMOBILITY, a start  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, issued the following news release: * * * - GE Vernova's LM6000VELOX/* package is expected to become its first aeroderivative gas turbine solution to operate on 100 percent renewable hydrogen enabling power generation with less or zero CO2 emissions/** - GE Vernova selected as preferred turbine supplier for the Whyalla hydrogen power plant as part of the South Australian Government's Hydrogen Jobs Plan - The first-of-its-ki  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Nov. 20 -- McGuireWoods, a law firm, issued the following news release: McGuireWoods successfully defended client Devon Energy in a $70 million tort dispute, winning a complete defense verdict on Nov. 14, 2024, following a two-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. After a trial that included more than 600 exhibits and testimony from 16 witnesses, the jury needed just 15 minutes to rule in Devon's favor. Enable Mississippi River Transmiss  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI's annual research conference. * * * By Leda Zimmerman, MIT Energy Initiative To fend off the worst impacts of climate change, "we have to decarbonize, and do it even faster," said William H. Green, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and Hoyt   more

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Nov. 20 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: Northumbria University has announced a multi-million pound investment in its first university-wide high-performance computing facility which will give researchers access to state-of-the-art technology built to handle large scientific datasets at high speeds. The University has teamed up with global digital technology providers, Lenovo and Logicalis, to deliver the new Higgs high-performance compu  more

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Nov. 19 -- Eindhoven University of Technology issued the following news: Commissioning of mega battery pack kicks off the development of a smart energy concept. In the search for solutions to the current grid congestion problem, science, industry, and government are joining forces, killing two birds with one stone. With the OPZuid project GENIUS, TU/e wants to tackle grid congestion together with companies, municipalities, and the province and, at the same time, set  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Nov. 19 -- DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, North Carolina has been assigned a patent (No. US 12146682 B2, initially filed Dec. 7, 2022) developed by Sylvie Lorente, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Adrian Bejan, Durham, North Carolina, for "Systems and methods of isothermal compression for energy storage."  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 19 [Category: Think Tank] -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, issued the following news release: On Tuesday, The Buckeye Institute testified (see full text below or download a PDF) before the Ohio Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee on the policies in Ohio Senate Bill 275, which will help Ohio meet its growing energy demands. In his testimony, Greg R. Lawson, a  more

PULLMAN, Washington, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- Washington State University issued the following news release: A speed record has been broken using nanoscience, which could lead to a host of new advances, including improved battery charging, biosensing, soft robotics and neuromorphic computing. Scientists at Washington State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a way to make ions move more than ten times faster in mixed organic ion-electronic conductors. These conducto  more