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(Distributed Energy) Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency...The consortium includes research partners Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Natural Resources Defense Council (Beijing branch), ICF International (Beijing branch), National Association of State Energy Offices, Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California, Davis...12/16 |
(Oak Ridger)
This past summer the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and our community, lost one of its most illustrious members. Sam Hurst came to Oak Ridge from Bell County in his home state of Kentucky in 1948...In 1979, Sam was named as one of the first three corporate Fellows at the laboratory...12/14
(Bennington Banner) The research and development arm of Plasan Carbon Composites is moving to a small town in Michigan, lured by state and local government tax breaks, and its proximity to a rebounding auto industry...According to Compositesworld.com, the Michigan facility is part of a "three-pronged strategic shift" for the company. It will maintain production in Bennington, but pursue process development in Michigan. Plasan will also continue research and development at a facility in Tennessee in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory...12/16 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release)
Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the Department's intent to fund up to $50 million to test and demonstrate innovative technologies that will lead to cost-competitive solar energy technologies...12/16
(DOE Press Release) U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the Department is accepting applications for up to $184 million over three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of new efficient vehicle technologies that will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, save drivers money, and limit carbon pollution...12/16
(DOE Press Release) Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced a comprehensive environmental analysis that has identified proposed 'solar energy zones' on public lands in six western states most suitable for environmentally sound, utility-scale solar energy production...12/16
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National
(NPR) A massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year's Day tax hike for millions of Americans is on its way to President Barack Obama for his signature.
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East Tennessee
(AP) The Tennessee Valley Authority discovered and fixed a seepage of rain water from a gypsum pond at the Kingston Plant where a breach in an earthen dam caused a huge spill of coal ash two years ago...12/16
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ...The Tennessee Solar Institute announced earlier this week that it had approved nearly $7.28 million in what are known as innovation grants, providing funds for Tennessee solar companies to reduce energy, train their work force and adopt technologies to better serve the solar market...12/17
(USA Today) The Tennessee Valley Authority has made a deal that will provide 44 megawatts of power from a wind farm in Iowa...12/15 |
Loss of Arctic Ice May Promote Hybrid Marine Mammals