Stories with the tag: Renewable Energy
A compressed air energy storage study has identified two locations in eastern Washington state that could store enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month. Release Date: 5/20/2013
PNNL’s energy management technology for smart grid operations has been licensed to Calico Energy Services of Bellevue, Wash. Release Date: 1/29/2013
PNNL’s Will Shaw will describe plans for Reference Facility for Offshore Renewable Energy, a Department of Energy Facility where offshore wind power measurement technologies will be tested, at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Release Date: 1/8/2013
A technology that has potential for integrating energy from wind and solar power onto the electricity grid has been licensed to a Washington state firm. Release Date: 10/2/2012
PNNL researchers will receive $3.8 million funding for projects aimed at dramatically improving how the U.S. produces and uses energy. Release Date: 9/30/2011
Chemists have developed a catalyst that stores energy in hydrogen gas molecules at record-breaking speeds, creating 100,000 molecules of hydrogen gas every second. Release Date: 8/11/2011
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists are researching how radar weather instruments can help improve predictions on when and how strongly winds will blow. That information can help power grid operators better manage the intermittent stress that spinning wind turbines put on the electrical grid. Release Date: 12/20/2010
PNNL’s Yong Wang was named Fellow of the American Chemical Society, or ACS. Wang is associate director of the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis at PNNL and Voiland Distinguished Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Release Date: 7/12/2010
PNNL researchers and their collaborators earned kudos for technologies ranging from the very small to industrial-strength. Release Date: 7/8/2010
PNNL’s report The Smart Grid: An Estimation of the Energy and CO2 Benefits suggests a smart grid could reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 12 percent or more by 2030. Release Date: 1/28/2010
