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Clean Fossil Energy

2012

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2011

PNNL talks climate, wind and carbon at AGU - Scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will present research related to climate change, wind power, carbon sequestration and more at the 2011 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. 12.5.11

PNNL in the News

2013

Popular Science's Rose Conry quoted PNNL's Rob Pratt as saying a smart grid could have helped quickly troubleshoot the Feb. 3 power outage at the Super Bowl. The Christian Science Monitor repeated Pratt's quote in an editorial piece by a guest blogger. 02.05.13

Architectural Record quotes PNNL's Rob Pratt regarding the potential that the nation's grid could be fundamentally changed by consumers who install their own power generation capabilities. 02.01.13

The USGlass News Network quoted Rahul Athalye on energy consumption as it relates to use of glass in buildings. Athalye was a participant in a panel discussion at the Glass Association of North America's Annual Conference. 01.24.13

The Tri-City Herald and KVEW-TV reported PNNL's recent $2.8 million award to adapt a technology for a military application. 01.24.13

C&E News announced the American Chemical Society will honor PNNL researchers with a team award for their technology used on submarines. 01.21.13

The Tri-City Herald reported on a visit by Tokyo Electric Power Company representatives to PNNL and Hanford to learn more about cleanup techniques that may be applicable to the Fukushima plant. 01.18.13

A Seattle Times article on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and lithium ion batteries quotes PNNL's Jason Zhang. 01.17.13

Northwest Public Radio and Oregon Public Broadcasting quoted PNNL's Rich Brown and Brett Pflugrath about PNNL research leading to development of fish-friendly dam turbines. 01.16.13

ClimateWire's Amanda Peterka mentioned that PNNL is partnering with Imperium Renewables to develop renewable aviation fuels in a story about aviation biofuels. 01.16.13

GreentechMedia featured an article about the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. 01.10.13

A Reuters column about LED lighting cited a 2012 PNNL report that found LED lights have a smaller environmental impact than compact fluorescent lights. The column was reposted on multiple media sites. 01.09.13

A Tri-City Herald editorial lauds PNNL for its recent FLC Excellence in Technology Transfer awards, two of which were for Energy and Environment Directorate technologies. 01.07.13

PNNL's fungal research related to biofuels development is featured in Biofuels Digest and EarthTechling. 01.07.13

The Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is highlighted in a Christian Science Monitor blog article on public investments in clean energy. 01.05.13

The Tri-City Herald, Biomass magazine and other media reported a $2.4 million award from DOE to PNNL for fungal-related biofuels research. 01.04.13

2012

PNNL's Sarah Widder was profiled by Douglas Clark for the Women in Chemistry series, a feature of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' blog. 12.19.12

Media outlets continue to cover the JCESR Battery Hub, including the Christian Science Monitor, Grand Rapids Business Journal, Energy Daily, Earth Techling, and others. 12.10.12

Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary, KNDU-TV's Lisa Loevsky and KVEW-TV's Josh Peterson reported on PNNL's newly remodeled Aquatic Research Laboratory and the research related to fish passage at hydroelectric dams, waste cleanup and climate change that takes place there. The story also ran in the Seattle Times, The News Tribune and The Bellingham Herald. 12.06.12

Xconomy's Benjamin Romano mentioned the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project in a roundup of Seattle technology-related business news. 12.05.12

The Tri-City Herald ran an article about PNNL's $1.6 million ARPA-E grant to improve the efficiency of transmission lines up to 30 percent. 11.30.12

The Columbian reported that ARPA-E awarded PNNL. $1.6 million to develop high-performance computing algorithms and software to manage power transmission lines in the electric grid more efficiently. 11.28.12

St. Louis Beacon's Jo Seltzer quoted PNNL’s Michael Kintner-Meyer as saying smart appliances can help overcome the intermittent nature of renewable energy in a feature story on Washington University's research into renewable energy. 11.26.12

Tri-City Herald reported that PNNL's Graham Parker has been named to the Energy Managers Hall of Fame. 11.17.12

The Citrus County Chronicle of Florida quoted PNNL's Vince Vermeul in a story about a licensing and safety hearing on a proposed nuclear plant for which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's environmental impact statement is being challenged. 11.15.12

Analysis of PNNL data finds more efficient power grid can save consumers money The Energy Fix blog reported on the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative analysis of PNNL data that found "increasing the power grid's efficiency by 9% equates to saving more than 400 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year." 11.14.12

PNNL's Henry Huang discusses using high-performance computing to improve the power grid InformationWeek quoted PNNL's Henry Huang on the use of high-performance computing to improve the power grid and mentioned PNNL research using approximate matching to find patterns in different data sets in a story about national lab contributions at Supercomputing. 11.14.12

PhysOrg, Science Codex, Electronic Component News and other science news websites reposted a news release about PNNL research presented at the Supercomputing 2012 conference. 11.14.12

Xconomy quoted PNNL's Ron Melton discussing the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project in a story about Seattle-based 3TIER providing wind forecasts for the project. 11.13.12

SmartMeters.com reported the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project's two-way communication signal has gone live. 11.12.12

National Geographic News quoted PNNL's Jeff Dagle as indicating utilities might be able to justify new infrastructure investments to prevent power outages as a result of the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy 11.02.12

LED Journal reported that PNNL's Michael Poplawski discussed the challenges and opportunities associated with developing dimmable LED lights during a webinar hosted by LED Journal. 11.01.12

The Tri-City Herald reports on the go-live of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. 10.27.12

The Sequim Gazette reported PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory is testing an absorbent capable of extracting trace amounts of uranium in the ocean that could be a possible nuclear power fuel source. 10.24.12

The Seattle Times reported on the go-live of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project at the University of Washington. The event also was covered by other news outlets, including Sustainable Business Oregon, Climate Wire, EnergyBiz, OPB, and others. 10.23.12

DWM reported on the final results of PNNL's research examining the energy savings potential of highly insulating windows. 10.22.12

Forbes’ Green Tech blog included a story on PNNL’s Distributed Wind Policy Comparison Tool following a pitch to San Francisco-based reporter Ucilia Wang. The Forbes family of blogs are some of the more widely-read media blogs. 10.19.12

Several news outlets published a story about Ukraine starting three syngas plants that included a quote from PNNL's George Muntean about coal gasification. 10.18.12

Energy Business Review and other outlets reported that PNNL is a partner with FuelCellEnergy in a story about the company’s project to use fuel cells to separate carbon dioxide from coal power plant emissions. 10.17.12

Smart Grid Blog & News reported on PNNL's smart grid modeling tool, GridLAB-D. 10.12.12

Greenwire's Phil Taylor quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping as discussing how offshore wind developers can reduce their projects' impact on right whales at the American Wind Energy Association's offshore wind power conference in Virgina Beach, Va. 10.11.12

Rachel Berkowitz of Physics Today's Down to Earth blog quoted PNNL's Rich Hallen in a post about PNNL's research with Imperium Renewables of Grays Harbor, Wash., to develop aviation biofuels. 10.05.12

A news release announcing a commercialization agreement designed to produce improved batteries for renewable energy storage continues to receive pick-up in the energy trade press. 10.05.12

The Tri-City Herald reported that batteries for renewable energy storage that researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory helped develop will be commercialized in Western Washington. The story was also picked up in other publications, including Smart Grid News, Green Car Congress, and others. 10.04.12

C&E News, Control Engineering and Plant Engineering all mention contributions by PNNL's Gary Gill to a collaborative research project examining methods to extract uranium from seawater as an alternative nuclear fuel source. 09.19.12

Architectural Lighting and Earth Techling reported on PNNL's life-cycle analysis and comparison of the environmental impacts of LED, CFL and incandescent lights, which found LED are more environmentally friendly. 09.18.12

Science magazine's Jane Lee mentioned PNNL's research studying sound's impact on fish in a feature story on retiring bioacoustician Arthur Popper, who once worked at PNNL. 09.14.12

Exchange Monitor's GHG Monitor published an article with comments from PNNL's Tom Brouns and Robert Dahowski on China's investment in the Texas Clean Energy Project involving the Summit Power Group out of Seattle. 09.14.12

Space.com’s Jeremy Hsu reported on a lunar mining panel facilitated by PNNL’s Bob Wegeng at the Space 2012 conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The panelists had hypothetical conversations with President Obama and presidential candidate Romney on why the U.S. should mine the moon. Fox News and several other outlets reposted the story. 09.12.12

Yahoo! News, and other various websites, posted a news release announcing the Lithium Battery Power 2012 conference, which will run Dec. 4-5 in Las Vegas, and mentions that PNNL's Jason Zhang will be a presenter. 09.11.12

Northwest Public Radio’s Courtney Flatt, Fierce Energy, Energy Central and other news outlets reported on PNNL research that found light-emitting diode light bulbs are more environmentally friendly than compact fluorescent and incandescent bulbs. 09.07.12

DOE's Energy Blog cited PNNL research that found 17 percent of U.S. oil imports for transportation could be replaced with U.S.-grown algae in a post about algal biofuel. The Capital Research Center, a think tank that examines the "politics of nonprofits," cited a different aspect of this research, which also found that U.S.-grown algae for biofuel production would require land about the size of South Carolina and about 25 percent of U.S water currently being used for crop irrigation in a column critical of algal biofuel. 09.05.12

The Oregonian's Scott Learn reported on PNNL research that found light-emitting diode light bulbs are more environmentally friendly than compact fluorescent and incandescent bulbs. Greenwire reposted the story. 09.05.12

The Sequim Gazette and Peninsula Daily news published stories on Battelle's decision to decline to be annexed into the City of Sequim and remain in Clallam County. The MSL is currently adequately served by its existing sewer and water resources, and annexation would require a significant financial investment on Battelle's part to help the city extend its utilities to the MSL property. 08.29.12

Reuters and various news websites reposted a news release that stated PNNL will present at LEDs 2012, a conference that examines the future of LED lighting and runs Oct. 10-12 in San Diego. 08.23.12

Biomass Magazine's Luke Geiver quoted PNNL's Mike Lilga in a story about the equipment that biomass and biofuels researchers use. 08.22.12

Earth2Tech quoted PNNL’s Gary Gill and Greenwire mentioned PNNL in separate stories about PNNL-ORNL research to test an improved method to extract uranium from seawater to fuel nuclear power plants. EIN Presswire, PhysOrg, R&D Magazine, Washington Clean Technology Alliance and others reposted a PNNL news release on the subject. The American Chemical Society and ORNL also mentioned PNNL in their own news releases on the subject. 08.21.12

The Tri-City Herald included mention of PNNL in its weekly Monday "Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down" column for "once again developing cutting-edge technology that continues to amaze." The reference was to last week's announcement that PNNL is receiving $1 million from DOE to continue research that replaces metal in vehicle's with lightweight materials reinforced with carbon fibers. 08.20.12

eSource Blog's Mary Horsey reported on a talk by PNNL's Jim Dirks about measuring miscellaneous electric loads on building energy usage during the Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, which was organized by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. 08.17.12

Chron and Reuters reported that former PNNL bio-based chemical researcher Todd Werpy has been appointed vice president of research and development at Archer Daniels Midland. 08.16.12

DOE will fund seven new projects designed to speed up the development of materials for next-generation vehicles. PNNL leads one project and is partnering in another. More> 08.15.12

Oregon Public Broadcasting did a story on the Army's Net-Zero Water program and efforts to reduce water usage at Oregon's Camp Rilea. The reporter spoke with PNNL water efficiency engineer Kate McMordie for the story. 08.15.12

R&D Magazine featured an article about PNNL's recent R&D 100 Award technology that scrubs CO₂ from submarine environments. The Advanced Carbon Dioxide Removal Unit (ACRU) uses a granular version of self-assembled monolayers on mesoporous supports (SAMMS) technology developed by PNNL in the 1990s. 08.14.12

The Tri-City Herald announced that PNNL scientist Langdon Holton will be included in Energy Secretary Chu's group of technical experts who will take a fresh look at Hanford's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and its black cells and provide input.

Washington Green Tech blog reported that Mulkiteo, Wash., energy storage developer UniEnergy Technologies, which licensed battery technologies developed at PNNL, recently met with a delegation from Liaoning Province, China, "to foster collaboration between the two economic areas on the development and commercialization of clean technology including advanced energy storage."

Biofuels Digest' Jim Lane reported that PNNL biofuels research partner LanzaTech and nylon producer INVISTA have signed a joint development agreement to convert industrial waste gas carbon monoxide into butadiene. PNNL and LanzaTech have already developed a thermochemical conversion that makes butadiene out of 2, 3-butanediol. 08.13.12

ZDnet reported that PNNL is working with FuelCell Energy to develop hybrid solid oxide fuel cell battery systems that can run the Navy's unmanned undersea vehicles. 08.13.12

Science blog BoingBoing included a story titled "What's wrong with the American grid," that points out while there are problems with the American electrical grid, a blackout of the severity seen in India recently is highly unlikely in this country. Two PNNL staff were interviewed for the story, and comments provided by the staff were used to explain how the U.S. grid works in other BoingBoing stories on the India blackout. 08.03.12

Reuters, Marketwatch and other news websites published an Algae Biomass Organization news release that lists PNNL's Michael Huesemann and Mark Wigmosta as speakers at the Algae Biomass Summit, Sept. 24-27, in Denver. 08.01.12

Building Green's Erin Weaver described a life-cycle analysis of LED light bulbs compiled by PNNL for DOE. 08.01.12

Power Magazine featured PNNL's super-efficient small solid oxide fuel cell system and quoted PNNL's Vincent Sprenkle in a story about major developments in solid oxide fuel cells. 08.01.12

Core Technologies blog reported on a super-efficient, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system developed by PNNL. 07.30.12

CleanTechnica cited a 2010 PNNL report that estimated a smart electrical power grid could decrease annual electric energy use and utility sector carbon emissions at least 12 percent by 2030. 07.27.12

FuelCellToday, the Hartford Courant and the Hartford Business Journal reported that PNNL is part of a team working with Connecticut company FuelCell Energy to develop a hybrid solid oxide fuel cell battery power system for large unmanned underwater vehicles for the U.S. Navy. FuelCell Energy put out a news release announcing funding for the project. 07.27.12

KNDU-TV's Jane Sander and Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary report on the test of power demand-shifting technologies by Benton PUD . The test is part of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, which is led by Battelle. PNNL’s Ron Melton is quoted in the KNDU story. The Herald story was republished on several websites, including Smarter Utility and Green Technology World. 07.24.12

Fierce Government IT's Molly Bernhart Walker quoted PNNL's Carl Imhoff in a story about DOE’s new Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model. 07.24.12

PhysOrg quoted PNNL's Praveen Thallapally in a story about molecular cages stretching to fit more metal inside. 07.23.12

Tri-City Herald and Energy Central reported that PNNL is receiving $1 million from DOE to research a new material that could extend the lifetime of nuclear fuel, reducing the cost of electricity production. 07.20.12

Local Tri-Cities media covered a story on an Irvine, Calif.-based company, Kurion, that is moving to the Tri-Cities. Kurion will use PNNL to test the viability of Kurion's new vitrification system. Kurion recently purchased the company Geosafe, which is based on a PNNL in situ vitrification technology developed at the laboratory in the 1980s. 07.19.12

Green Car Congress, Lab Manager Magazine, Pennsylvania Business Central and Power Engineering Magazine reported that PNNL is one of the recipients of $13 million in new DOE funding to research nuclear energy technologies. PNNL will work with Pennsylvania State University to "assess instruments that allow operators to better monitor changes in nuclear reactor material properties." 07.18.12

IEEE Spectrum's Dave Levitan quoted PNNL's Jun Liu as an outside expert on new technology that adds supercapacitors to flow batteries. 07.18.12

Northwest Public Radio and Oregon Public Radio featured an article on PNNL's involvement in developing a model that will allow energy utilities to assess their cybersecurity online. 07.17.12

CleanTechnica reported that PNNL contributed to the development of Advanced Energy Design Guides in a story about NREL and DOE helping hospitals become more energy efficient. 07.17.12

Washington State University announced that PNNL will participate in a WSU-sponsored community event on July 25 in Richland that highlights the intersection between biofuels development and hydroplane boat racing. 07.16.12

Green Car Congress's Mike Millikin reported that PNNL won one of 13 project awards from APRA-E to advance natural gas vehicle technologies. 07.12.12

Window & Door magazine's Katy Devlin discussed the Windows Volume Purchase Program's role in encouraging the gradual replacement and retrofit of windows in existing constructions with more energy-efficient R-5 windows in a story about the future of DOE's window efforts in light of reduced funding for such work. 07.10.12

Contracting News reported that PNNL's Kris Subbarao and co-authors received an award for a paper on building energy models at the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) conference. 07.10.12

In a story on telecommuting, The Innovation Files website cited PNNL research that found a fully deployed smart grid could reduce carbon dioxide emissions within the national electric power sector by 12 percent by 2030. 07.10.12

Plastics News’ Mike Verespej cited PNNL as one of the institutions that has researched injection molded long-glass-fiber composites. 07.09.12

Door and Window Manufacturer (DWM) Magazine quoted PNNL's Dan Gaspar discussing new coatings that allow more natural light to enter in a story about emerging DOE research to improve windows. The U.S. Glass News Network also published the story. 07.03.12

Sheet Metal Journal's Jessica Kirby interviewed PNNL's Ron Jarnagin for a question-and-answer piece about his leadership vision for ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers), for which he is currently serving as president. 07.01.12

The New Energy News blog on the Renewable Electricity Futures Study, to which PNNL contributed. 07.01.12

The Tri-City Herald reported that PNNL will host a professional class on carbon capture and storage on July 31. 06.28.12

Environmental Leader cited PNNL's finding that commercial buildings can save 25 to 35 percent on their heating and cooling bills with energy-efficient controls in a story about Toronto’s failed efforts to save money with retrofits. 06.28.12

R&D Magazine reported that PNNL contributed to a new tool that can help utilities evaluate their cyber security readiness. 06.28.12

Multiple outlets – including Green Car Congress, R&D Magazine and Nanowerk – mention PNNL or EMSL in a story about a yolk-like anode for lithium ion batteries. 06.28.12

The A to Z of Materials and Printed Electronics World mentioned PNNL and Vorbeck in a story about R&D 100-award-winning use of graphene in lithium ion batteries. 06.25.12

Columbia Basin Bulletin, Offshore Wind, Sub Sea World News and Lab Manager Magazine reported on PNNL's evaluation of the affects that pile driving activity has on salmon. 06.22.12

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory learned Wednesday that it has won two more prestigious R&D 100 Awards. Read more… 06.20.12

Local and trade media continued to cover the announcement of PNNL's new associate laboratory directive for Energy and Environment 06.19.12

Idaho Falls’ Local News 8 and KPVI reported on the ribbon cutting of the city’s new fleet of hybrid Chevy Volts, part of PNNL’s Smart Grid Demonstration Project. 06.18.12

China and the United States are strengthening ties in reducing carbon emissions through new agreements involving energy efficiency cooperation, despite recent trade disputes over renewable energy products. 06.14.12 More

After more than two years of planning the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project (PNW-SGDP), the country's largest smart grid initiative, will officially get rolling this fall. 06.14.12 More

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed hollow carbon nanowires (HCNWs) for use as anode material for Na-ion batteries. 06.14.12 More

Northwest Public Radio’s Courtney Flatt quoted PNNL’s Vince Sprenkle in a story about PNNL’s new, highly efficient solid oxide fuel cell system that’s designed to provide power for individual homes or neighborhoods. The Matt over Matter blog also reported on the research. 06.12.12

Something was killing young salmon in the dams of the Pacific Northwest. Every spring, tens of millions of them would swim through the hydroelectric dams of the Columbia River on their way to the ocean, and every year as many as 10 percent emerged bloodied or suffocated. For years, the exact cause remained elusive. 06/09/12 More

PNNL research partner ClearEdge Power issued a news announcement about the latest test site for combined heat and power fuel cells. 06.07.12

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported that PNNL's Nik Qafoku wrote a chapter in a new soil sciences book. 06.01.12

With all system infrastructure in place and utilities finishing up the installation of smart grid asset systems across the Pacific Northwest region, a transactive control system will "go live" this fall, allowing the installed assets to start responding to electric power conditions. Though questions will remain, we believe we are taking a significant step that will move the nation closer to a more efficient, sustainable and resilient power system. 06.01.12 More

PhysOrg reported on a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell developed by PNNL that could be used for localized power generation. 05.31.12

Green Car Congress's Mike Millikin mentioned PNNL in a story about sodium ion rechargeable batteries. 05.29.12

The Global CCS Institute published a brief on its website about PNNL’s carbon sequestration research. 05.25.12

Algae Industry Magazine reported that a PNNL-developed cross-flow membrane technology was one of three algae biofuel development technologies chosen by the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts for scale-up. 05.24.12

The Energy Intelligence Update blog reported on a recent PNNL report describing how rooftop commercial HVAC systems can be made more energy efficient. 05.22.12

KNDU filed a story on carbon capture and sequestration after interviewing PNNL's Casie Davidson and Todd Schaef about permanent underground storage of CO₂. 05.22.12

C&E News' Mitch Jacoby features PNNL's Chuck Peden and Darrell Herling in an article about advanced, cleaner catalytic converters. 05.21.12

The Tri-City Herald and KNDU-TV ran stories about the FLC Interagency Partnership Award received by PNNL and the Navy for new technology that removes carbon dioxide from submarine environments. 05.15.12

Today I Found Out mentioned PNNL's Yongsoon Shin in a story about petrification. 05.15.12

Forbes’ contributing writer Tom Groenfeldt discusses how the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project will use data and analytics to make a business case for the smart grid. The online article reaches an audience of 25 million people from around the world. 05.09.12

Kyodo New's Ben Dooley quoted PNNL's Wayne Johnson, Yasuo Onishi and Bruce Napier in a story about how the Japanese government hopes to apply lessons learned at Hanford to decontaminating the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami last year. 05.09.12

KNDU-TV’s Jane Sander quoted PNNL’s Srinivas Katipamula and Shan Belew in a story about PNNL’s estimate of the potential energy savings for commercial buildings if energy-efficient controllers were installed in packaged roof-top commercial heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units. 05.08.12

Nanotimes magazine Nanotimes magazine featured an article on the use of a PNNL-developed technology for capturing carbon dioxide from submarine breathing air, which recently received the 2012 FLC Interagency Partnership Award. 05.01.12

The DOE Energy blog posted a story about a recent PNNL report on adding energy efficiency controls to commercial heating and cooling units could save an average of 38 percent in heating and cooling bills. The Texas Is Hot blog and DVIRC economic development website and XX also posted stories about this research. 04.27.12

The Global Smart Grid Federation (Canada) mentioned the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project as a “notable project” in its Global Smart Grid Federation 2012 Report. 04.26.12

CleanTechnica, Distributed Energy, Lime Energy and Product Design & Development reported on PNNL’s research examining how adding efficiency controls heating and cooling units can save energy. 04.23.12

The Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel ran McClatchey’s Rob Hotakainen’s article about PNNL’s/Pete McGrail’s EMOF technology for electric vehicles. 04.21.12

Resource Investing News's Rajiv Karan Kumar quoted PNNL's Vincent Sprenkle in a story about vanadium batteries. 04.20.12

Technology Review's Mike Orcutt summarized a quote from PNN'’s Jeff Dagle about how Phasor Measurement Units will upgrade the grid just as MRIs upgraded X-Ray technology. 04.19.12

Environmental Leader, Energy Efficiency in the Home and R&D Magazine reported on PNNL research that found retrofitting commercial rooftop HVAC systems can save on heating and energy bills by an average of 25 to 35 percent. 04.16.12

ClimateWire’s Daniel Cusick, Northwest Public Radio’s Courtney Flatt and Tri-City Herald’s Annette Cary reported on a PNNL’s research into energy efficiency in heating and cooling systems. 04.12.12

Washington State University put out a news release about its new Energy Systems Innovation Center that also described WSU’s collaboration with PNNL on smart grid research. 04.11.12

The U.S. Glass News Network reported that the Glass Association of North America is evaluating a proposal by ASHRAE about the visible transmittance of glass based on analysis provided by PNNL. 04.11.12

Light Now reported that PNNL’s Jeff McCullough and Michael Myer will present in a DOE webcast about new LED and fluorescent lighting specifications. 04.10.12

PowerGrid International magazine mentioned PNNL in an article about the AEP gridSMART demonstration project (co-led by Battelle) winning an award for "Smart Grid Demonstration of the Year". 04.01.12

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported that Alan Zacher was named PNNL Inventor of the Year and that the PNNL team that managed the construction of the Physical Sciences Facility Project awarded the U.S. Department of Energy’s Secretary’s Award of Excellence in Project Management. 04.01.12

Photonics.com reported on PNNL’s research developing a fluorescent biosensor out of diatoms. 03.30.12

GreenTech Grid named PNNL’s Steve Widergren as one of the “The Networked Grid 100: The movers and shakers of the smart grid in 2012.” Several online publications picked up the news. 03.30.12

Window & Door magazine noted that changes are coming to the High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program, managed by PNNL for DOE. 03.28.12

EE Times quotes PNNL's Michael Poplawski in an article about the future of LEDs and Solid State Lighting. 03.27.12

Contracting Business quoted PNNL's Ron Jarnigan in an article about indoor air quality being a must have for buildings. 03.27.12

Peninsula Daily News' Paul Gottlieb reported that a representative of PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, Wash., and others from the region would attend the JEC Composites show in Paris to promote the Olympic Composites Corridor. 03.27.12

Peninsula Daily News and The Sequim Gazette reported that the Sequim City Council’s goals for 2012-2013 include annexing property that includes PNNL’s Marine Sciences Laboratory. 03.24.12

HPAC Engineering quoted PNNL's Bing Liu and Ron Jarnigan in an article about buildings energy efficiency at a recent ASHRAE conference. 03.20.12

The Sequim Gazette's Mark St. J. Couhig quoted PNNL's Josh Myers in a story about the Sequim High School robotics team he's helping. 03.20.12

The Seattle Times’ Kyung Song mentioned PNNL’s aviation biofuel research in a story about the Northwest’s increasing focus on aviation biofuels. The story was republished in The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. 03.17.12

U.S. Glass News Network’s Penny Stacey wrote an article about DOE's forthcoming Commercial Building Energy Asset Rating System (to launch in October) and quoted PNNL's Nora Wang in the article. Wang conducted a webinar about the program with DOE program manager Cody Taylor. 03.15.12

Portland Daily Journal of Commerce's Lindsey O'Brien quoted PNNL's Dave Conover in an article about Portland company Powin Energy participating in an informal working group spearheaded by DOE, PNNL and Sandia, to get ahead of a formal standards-making process to determine performance metrics for utility-scale energy storage systems. 03.13.12

Biofuels Digests’ Jim Lane listed a 2004 PNNL-NREL report on the most important 12 bio-based chemicals as one of the most downloaded biomass reports from the magazine’s website. 03.12.12

KVEW News' Josh Peterson interviewed PNNL's Wayne Johnson for a story on the Fukushima nuclear accident anniversary. Video 03.12.12

The Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary interviewed PNNL's Yasuo Onishi for a story on the Fukushima nuclear accident anniversary. 03.11.12

The Baltimore Sun’s Gus Sentementes wrote an article about Jessup-Md.-based company Vorbeck Materials and its research partners, including PNNL, are using graphene to dramatically improve the performance of batteries, including those for electric vehicles. 03.10.12

The Seattle Times picked up Rob Hotakainen’s article about PNNL’s EMOF technology and how it could improve an electric vehicle’s driving range. 03.10.12

Several publications, including the Tacoma News Tribune, Spokane Spokesman-Review, The Olympian, Bellingham Herald, and others ran Rob Hotakainen’s article about PNNL’s EMOF technology and how it could improve an electric vehicle’s driving range. 03.09.12

Multiple news outlets, including The Dallas Morning News and Lexington Herald-Leader, published a story by McClatchy Newspapers’ Rob Hotakainen that featured PNNL’s ARPA-E research to improve the efficiency of A/C and heating systems in electric vehicles. PNNL’s Pete McGrail and Praveen Thallapally were quoted. 03.08.12

Tri-City Herald’s Michelle Dupler quoted Jesse Berst, who serves on the PNNL Advisory Council, as saying the Tri-Cities could lead the nation in discussions of how to take America's energy policy to the next level – including policy regarding the smart grid. 03.08.12

Business Wire and several other websites posted an IEEE news release announcing PNNL and others will speak at a March 16 conference for synchrophasor testing, validation and certification for the smart grid that’s being organized by the IEEE Conformity Assessment Program and Washington State University. 03.08.12

Tri-City Herald citied PNNL’s and Washington State University biofuel research in an editorial supporting Sen. Maria Cantwell’s efforts to bring a Federal Aviation Administration jet fuel biofuel research center to the Tri-Cities. 03.06.12

Sustainable Business Oregon’s Christina Williams reported that PNNL, Sandia National Laboratories, Powin Energy and the Bonneville Power Administration are working together to develop new large-scale energy storage technologies. 03.06.12

Peninsula Daily News’ Tom Callis quoted PNNL’s Charlie Brandt as saying Rep. Norm Dicks has supported PNNL’s national security research in a story about Dicks’ upcoming retirement. 03.04.12

KNDU-TV's Jane Sander and Tri-City Herald's Paula Horton cited PNNL's biofuels research while reporting on Sen. Maria Cantwell's efforts to bring an FAA biofuel research center to the Tri-Cities. The senator held a media event at BSEL, at which PNNL's Jud Virden gave a speech. The story was also reposted at MSNBC, The News Tribune, and other newspapers. 02.26.12

Forbes columnist Jeff McMahon described PNNL's 2010 study on the U.S.'s capacity to grow algae for biofuel while discussing President Obama's Feb. 23 energy policy speech and his administration's support for Alganol Biofuels of Florida. 2.26.12

Tri-City Herald reported that President Obama cited PNNL's algal biofuel research in his Feb. 23 energy policy speech. 02.25.12

The Tri-City Herald and other websites ran an article on INL’s announcement of adding PNNL to its list of National Scientific User Facility partners. Jud Virden was quoted. 2.24.12

Scientific Computing ran PNNL’s media alert about its ARPA-E participation. 2.24.12

The State Dept.’s Louise Fenner wrote an article about PNNL’s work with Vorbeck for the IIP Digital website. 2.24.12

While reporting on President Obama’s Feb. 23 energy policy speech, several outlets – including the New York Times , MSNBC, Bloomberg and Business Week – quoted Obama citing a PNNL finding that up to 17 percent of the oil U.S. imports for transportation could be replaced with U.S.-grown algal biofuel. 2.23.12

Fuel Cells Works and PhysOrg quoted Morris Bullock in a story about a hydrogen catalyst. 2.22.12

The NIST TechBeat blog mentions PNNL’s codes work in a brief about a funding opportunity for commercial buildings energy efficiency. 2.21.12

Popular Mechanics' David Ferris quotes PNNL's Tom Carlson in a story about how PNNL's Sensor Fish technology is helping improve hydroelectric dam efficiency and fish survival. 2.15.12

Popular Mechanics quotes PNNL's Tom Carlson in a story about the lab's Sensor Fish technology and how it has helped improve fish survival at hydroelectric dams. 02.15.12

Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary reported that PNNL partner Vorbeck was voted as one of three "America's Next Top Energy Innovators" as part of the DOE contest. 2.14.12

The Columbian newspaper printed an editorial praising the ‘forward thinking’ by DOE, BPA and PNNL for conducting the compressed air energy storage (CAES) feasibility study underway assessing potential energy storage during times of surplus wind energy. 2.9.12

Company KEMA mentions PNNL in a press announcement about its director of grid operations being named as part of the GridWise Architecture Council. PNNL administers GWAC for DOE. 2.9.12

Tri-City Herald’s Michelle Dupler quoted Sen. Maria Cantwell as saying PNNL’s leadership in biofuel research would make the Tri-Cities an ideal place to house a new jet fuel research center appropriated through the $63.4 billion Federal Aviation Administration funding bill that passed the U.S. Senate on Monday. The story was republished in The News Tribune (Tacoma) and Individual.com. 2.7.12

The Seattle Times, The Associated Press and more than a dozen publications and websites quoted PNNL’s Pete McGrail about a study underway to assess possible energy storage from surplus wind power using compressed air and hot water injection. 2.6.12

Chemical & Engineering News's Prachi Patel quoted PNNL's Jun Liu in a story on using graphene in fuel cell catalysts. 2.3.12

Eric Florip of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., quoted PNNL’s Ron Thom about a salmon habitat restoration project that Thom is involved in through the Bonneville Power Administration. KTVZ of central Oregon state also posted a Bonneville Power Administration release that quotes Thom. 1.24.12

GreenWire, ThomasNet and ECN Magazine cited a PNNL technology being used by Vorbeck Materials while reporting about DOE's America's Next Top Energy Innovator competition. 1.24.12

Science's Erik Stokstad, Scientific American's David Biello and Gizmodo's Jamie Condliffe cited a 2010 PNNL report that suggested the U.S. could supply 1 percent of its annual gasoline needs by growing such seaweed for harvest while reporting on a microbe developed by Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. that converts seaweed into ethanol. Science quoted PNNL's Guri Roesijadi. 1.19.12

Resentris released a story about its Electronic Lab Notebook software being chosen for scientific data management by the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts and mentions that PNNL is a member of the alliance. 1.17.12

Product Design and Development magazine online published a piece about PNNL’s lab homes. 1.17.12

Technology Review's Kevin Bullis quoted PNNL's Sue Jones discussing the importance of catalyst life in thermochemical conversion of biomass in a story about a Wisconsin company's approach to converting biomass to biofuel. 1.17.12

Blog LightNow mentions that PNNL's Kelly Gordon will be hosting a webinar on LED lighting. 1.12.12

The City of Richland, Wash., produced and published a video about the PNNL Lab Homes project. 1.3.12

Door and Window Manufacturer (DWM) magazine and Window and Door magazine both published a brief about an upcoming High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program seminar. 1.6.12

DOE's EERE blog published the video of PNNL's Lab Homes, done by the City of Richland, Wash. 1.5.12

Blog Green Cleaning Ideas mentions PNNL's work with sodium-beta batteries in an article about the future of electric vehicles. 1.3.12

BPA's Katie Pruder-Scruggs mentions the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project in an article she co-authored for RenewGrid magazine, about making the business case for smart grid. 1.12

2011

ThomasNet's Michael Lewis quoted PNNL's Jamie Holladay in an article about the DOE hydrogen storage award for fuel cell development. 12.21.11

Blogs Energy News Today, and Fuel Cell Works and The Street picked up the announcement of DOE's hydrogen storage awards, which included mention of PNNL. 12.18.11

The Daily Astorian of Astoria, Ore., reported that PNNL's Amy Borde was named one of the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership's Stewards of the Year for her work studying the Lower Columbia River and Estuary. 12.15.11

Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Vehicles blog and Energy Efficiency News covered the DOE fuel cell research awards. 12.14.11

Talking Points Memo mentioned PNNL in a story about how scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University cooked up a new form of the nano-wonder material graphene for a new type of battery, the lithium-air battery, and set the highest energy storage capacity ever reported, 15,000 milliamp hours per gram (mAh/g). 12.12.11

Blogs Greeningthecity and Inhabitat wrote about PNNL's new GSA green federal buildings report. 12.7.11

Physics Today published an article quoting PNNL scientist Pete McGrail about a study underway by the Lab and BPA to evaluate compressed air and underground thermal energy storage generated from surplus turbine wind power. 12.6.11

Several news websites - including R&D Magazine, sciencenewsline, and sciencebase - reported that PNNL scientists will discuss climate change, wind power and carbon sequestration at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. 12.5.11

Fine Homebuilding magazine's Richard Defendorf published an article about PNNL’s Lab Homes. 12.4.11

Carbon Capture Journal ran an article about the test stream technology being developed at PNNL, authored by PNNL'ers Jim Cabe, Dale King and Charlie Freeman. 12.4.11

Laboratory Equipment editor-in-chief Tim Studt wrote an op-ed about the GSA green federal buildings report. 12.1.11

The BPA Journal highlighted PNNL's Lab Homes project. 12.1.11

EEWeb's monthly publication Pulse published two articles; one about Trishan Esram and one about the PNW-SGDP. 12.1.11

Northwest Missourian published an editorial on global energy policy that cited PNNL's research into the potential for algal biofuel to replace 17 percent of U.S. oil imports. 12.1.11

LEDs Magazine reported that PNNL's Marc Ledbetter will discuss DOE's CALiPER program at the LEDs in Lighting track at Strategies in Light 2012, to be held Feb. 7-9, 2012. 12.11

Nature's Neil Savage quoted PNNL's Dan Gaspar in a story about how the multifaceted field of carbon-based electronics offers options for researchers from all areas of the physical sciences. 11.23.11

Chemistry & Industry's Sean Milmo quoted PNNL's John Holladay and Chuck Peden in a story about the need to discover and develop more effective catalysts for biomass processing. 11.21.11

Websites Grist, Metering.com, IndustryLeadersmagazine.com, and laboratoryequipment.com wrote about PNNL's new GSA green federal buildings report. 11.18.11

R&D magazine online covered the PNNL press release about the GSA green federal buildings report. 11.18.11

ClimateWire picked up the AP story about PNNL's Lab Homes. 11.16.11

E&E PM's Gabe Nelson ran a brief about PNNL's Lab Homes. 11.15.11

Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary ran a front-page, top-of-fold story about PNNL's lab homes. 11.15.11

The Associated Press ran a story about PNNL's lab homes. The story was picked up by the Seattle Times, the Seattle PI and ClimateWire. 11.15.11

KNDU-TV (local NBC affiliate) featured Graham Parker in a story about PNNL's lab homes. 11.15.11

KVEW-TV (local ABC affiliate) ran a segment about PNNL's lab homes. 11.15.11

Northwest Public Radio's Courtney Flatt featured Graham Parker in a segment about PNNL's lab homes. 11.15.11

Energy Efficiency communication consulting firm Shelton Group picked up the Tri-City Herald article about PNNL's Lab Homes project in their weekly newsletter. The group is well-known for energy efficiency communication. 11.15.11

EarthTechling ran a brief about PNNL’s lab homes. 11.14.11

McClatchy's Rob Hotakainen quoted PNNL's Carl Imhoff in an article about the future of wind subsidies. The Tri-City Herald also ran the article on its front page. 11.13.11

Physics Today's Jermey Matthews quotes PNNL's Gary Yang in a story about the electrical grid and the batteries needed to add renewable energy to it. 11.7.11

The Idaho Business Review ran the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce article by David White (originally published Oct. 20) about PNNL's EV and wind integration study. 11.3.11

EEWeb (online community for electrical engineers) ran a profile article featuring PNNL's Trishan Esram. 11.11

Architect magazine mentions PNNL in an article about its analysis of the GSA's buildings that shows sustainable buildings cost 19% less to maintain. 10.28.11

Electronics Weekly's Steve Bush mentioned PNNL's research with manganese batteries in an article about the US casting a wide net to develop better storage. 10.20.11

The GridWise Alliance mentioned Mike Kluse in a press release about its lineup of speakers for the GridWise Global Forum. 10.20.11

Portland Daily Journal of Commerce contributor David White wrote a great article about PNNL's EV & wind integration report. 10.19.11

The Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Communications Blog featured Praveen Thallapally's work with metal organic frameworks. 10.18.11

The Mainichi Daily News(Japan) quoted PNNL scientist Yasuo Onishi who suggested preferred decontamination approaches and more efficient and safe cleanup efforts during a symposium of international experts at Fukushima this past weekend. 10.17.11

The High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program was mentioned in the e-Build newsletter. 10.15.11

EarthFix's Courtney Flatt featured Jun Cui, Ewa Ronnebro and Pete McGrail in three separate Q&A pieces about the ARPA-E awards. 10.14.11

EarthTechling reported that PNNL with working with Imperium Renewables to develop a catalytic process to make biomass into bio-based jet fuel. 10.14.11

Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Harold Bubil quoted PNNL's Subrato Chandra in an article about an extremely energy efficient retrofitted cottage. 10.14.11

USA Today's Dan Vergano re-tweeted the link to PNNL's YouTube video featuring PNNL's Landis Kannberg talking about the electrical grid. 10.11.11

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported on several PNNL-related news items, including:
Praveen Thallapally was named an editor for Crystal Growth & Design. 10.11

Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business Tri-City Area Journal of Business ran an article about PNNL's ARPA-E awards. 10.11

BioFuels Journal's Jerry Perkins quotes PNNL's Yong Wang about his ethanol to isobutene catalyst. 10.11

Blog Planet Geospatial Between the Poles did a nice write-up of Tuffner and Kintner-Meyer's EV & wind study. 9.22.11

Smart Grid News's Jesse Berst wrote an article about two of PNNL's grid analytics tools. 9.21.11

Biorefining Magazine's Luke Geiver reported that DOE will partly base a new national assessment of the resource potential of algae-grown for biofuels on a recent PNNL study that quantified how much biofuel could be produced from U.S.-grown algae. 9.20.11

Chemical & Engineering News' Jyllian Kemsley quoted PNNL's Jay Grate, Samuel Bryan and Matthew O'Hara in a story about analytical chemists who devise ways to watch radioactive streams, presented at the American Chemical Society meeting. 9.19.11

Wired's Dan Koeppel quoted PNNL's Kelly Gordon in an article about LED lightbulbs and the L-Prize. 9.19.11

Chemical Processing Magazine quoted PNNL's Yong Wang about his isobutene catalyst. 9.11

Lori Matsukawa of KING-TV in Seattle interviewed PNNL's Yasuo Onishi for a story on his work advising Japan about radioactive cleanup following the Fukushima nuclear crisis this spring. 9.15.11

Northwest Public Radio's Courtney Flatt quoted PNNL's Tom Carlson in a story on PNNL's efforts to improve the Sensor Fish technology. The story was also broadcast by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW-FM. 9.14.11

A number of outlets, including EV World, MSNBC, Smart Grid News, Green Car Congress, Platt's Inside Energy Extra, KNDU-TV, Northwest Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, R&D magazine and Science Business covered Frank Tuffner and Michael Kintner-Meyer's EV & wind report press release. 9.13.11

Energy Blog ran a story on using ancient glass to study vitrification. 9.12.11

The Sequim Gazette's Mark Couhig quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping in a story on PNNL's research examining the environmental impacts of marine power development. 9.7.11

Green Car Congress, KEPR-TV, Water Power Magazine and PennEnergy reported that PNNL has been awarded $299,000 by DOE to improve the design of Sensor Fish technology, which measures press changes and movement that fish experience as they pass through hydroelectric dam turbines. The Bureau of Reclamation also announced this in a press release. 9.7.11

An Associated Press article on carbon sequestration appeared on SentinelandEnterprise.com mentioning PNNL's CCS pilot project near Wallula. 9.5.11

The Sacramento Bee published a guest column by Pike Research's Peter Asmus on the wind turbine industry in California that mentions research by PNNL and others about the amount of payback consumers receive for installing small wind turbines. 9.4.11

U.S. News & World Report's website posted a National Science Foundation article that lists PNNL as a research partner with the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations. 8.31.11

KNDU-TV's Chloe Beardsley quoted PNNL's Geoff McMichael and Kate Deters in a story featuring PNNL's Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System. 8.30.11

The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy ran an authored article by co-editor Michael Kintner-Meyer, discussing the need to become urgent with our development and deployment of S&T. 8.30.11

Peninsula Daily News's Rob Ollikainen reported that PNNL, NASA and other agencies helped establish a lab on Peninsula College's Port Angeles, Wash., campus in a story on climate change research partly done at the lab. 8.29.11

Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary ran an article about Battelle's award for CO₂ capture. 8.27.11

Several publications including the Associated Press, Olympian, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Seattle Times, published a story about Battelle's award to research a cost-cutting carbon dioxide capture technology. 8.25.11

News Release - "Battelle receives $2 million award to test energy efficient carbon capture," Battelle was awarded $1.99 million from the Department of Energy to study how cost-effectively a new carbon dioxide capture process can work to pull greenhouse gases out of power plant emissions. 8.25.11

Several publications including wire services, Fast Company, Greentech Grid, Platts Inside Energy and Sustainable Business Oregon, ran a story about PNNL partner company ClearEdge security $75 million in venture capital funding to continue development of its refrigerator-sized fuel cell system. PNNL was mentioned in the company's press release and in a few of the stories. 8.23.11

Outlets continue to cover how PNNL materials scientists Denis Strachan and Joseph Ryan are using 1800-year-old glass to better understand how nuclear waste stored as glass might age, including A Blog About History. 8.22.11

Public Utilities Fortnightly ran an authored article by PNNL's Carl Imhoff that describes the various aspects of the power system that must be considered, and why, in order to achieve transformation of the nation's electric grid by 2050. 8.11

Earth2Tech's Katie Fehrenbacher included a photo of the EIOC in an article about the influx of data on the grid and how it will be handled. The article also ran in GigaOM and on CNNMoney.com. 8.15.11

BBC's Naked Scientist show interviewed PNNL's Morris Bullock on his work studying super-fast catalyst that makes hydrogen that was published last week in Science. Chemical & Engineering News and others also covered the story. 8.15.11
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Local television and newspaper reporters covered how PNNL materials scientists Denis Strachan and Joseph Ryan are using 1800-year-old glass to better understand how nuclear waste stored as glass might age. Multiple outlets carried the story, including the Tri-City Herald, KNDU-TV, KEPR-TV, KVEW-TV, the Associated Press, the Tacoma News Tribune, and Fox News. 8.12.11

Chemistry World's Josh Howgego quoted PNNL's Morris Bullock in a story on the fastest catalyst that can make hydrogen, inspired by a natural enzyme. 8.11.11

News Release - "Two PNNL scientists named ACS Fellows," PNNL chemists Janet Bryant and Gregg Lumetta are among 213 distinguished researchers nationwide recognized by the American Chemical Society, also known as ACS, for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to science and the profession of chemistry." 8.9.11

Northwest Public Radio aired an audio segment on carbon capture and sequestration quoting PNNL's Pete McGrail who provided the status of the Wallula pilot demo in southeastern Washington. McGrail gave a presentation to the Northwest Public Power and Conservation Council this week. 8.9.11

Multiple outlets reported on a new PNNL catalyst that can turn bio-ethanol into isobutene. Biofuel Daily, AgroTimes. 8.8.11

Multiple outlets reported on a new PNNL catalyst that can turn bio-ethanol into isobutene, including Oregon Public Broadcasting's Courtney Flatt, Portland Daily Journal of Commerce's Lindsey O'Brien, Green Car Congress, Science 2.0, and R&D Magazine. 8.4.11

EarthTechling's Pete Danko quoted PNNL's Jason Zhang as as an expert on lithium air batteries in a story about work out of MIT. 8.4.11

Earth Techling reported that PNNL is testing how marine life could be affected by tidal turbines at a planned pilot project at Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound, Washington state. 8.3.11

News Release - "PNNL receives regional technology transfer awards," The Federal Laboratory Consortium - Far West Region has bestowed two awards upon Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for Outstanding Commercialization Success. Contributors to this technology transfer include John Holladay, John Frye, Dennis Stiles, and Alan Zacher, all of Energy and Environment Directorate, Eric Lund, Technology Deployment & Outreach, Todd Werpy (ADM, former PNNL employee), and James White (former PNNL employee). 8.3.11

PhyOrg.com posted an article noting PNNL's involvement in the Wallula, Wash., carbon sequestration pilot demo. The injection is expected to take place later this year. 8.1.11

News Release - "A new catalyst for ethanol made from biomass," Researchers in the Pacific Northwest have developed a new catalyst material that could replace chemicals currently derived from petroleum and be the basis for more environmentally friendly products including octane-boosting gas and fuel additives, bio-based rubber for tires and a safer solvent for the chemicals industry. 8.1.11

Blog Latest Energy News mentions PNNL's sodium-ion battery work in an article about company Aquion's work in bulk grid storage. 8.1.11

Electrical Wholesaling magazine mentions PNNL in an article about the L-Prize for lighting design. 7.11

Blog Incoming's John Phipps mentions PNNL and the GFAC in a post about the grid adjusting to demand and Encryptor licensing the GFAC technology. 7.31.11

KNDU-TV's Bryant Maddrick reported on PNNL's biofuels research in a story about biofuels for hydroplane boats and airplanes. 7.28.11

Resource Investor's Ken Reser mentioned PNNL research on manganese ion battery electrodes in a story on the use of manganese in electrical applications. 7.28.11

DOE Energy Blog and Offshore Wind reported on PNNL's research benefitting efforts to install a tidal power pilot project in Admiralty Inlet, Washington State. 7.27.11

The American Chemical Society featured a podcast with PNNL's Gary Yang called "Bright prospects for green electric grid," as part of its Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions series. 7.25.11