New work developed a methodology to generate building temperature setpoint schedules for use by modelers in large-scale building energy simulations.

COVID-19 changed when and where we use electricity. Researchers showed that commonly available total demand data masked the actual changes.

Recognizing how innovation and clean technologies at the very edge of the grid can work together to transition the electricity system, PNNL takes a multidisciplinary approach to advancing and integrating renewable energy solutions.

Storage Targets and Release Function Inference Tool uses data to infer the operating policies of large reservoirs on a national scale.

Ocean engineer Emma Cotter supports the Triton Initiative's environmental monitoring projects.

A multisectoral analysis that combines land use data with hydrological simulations reveals wide disparities in potential source water contamination.

PNNL scientist Brian O’Neill led the compilation of an IPCC chapter about climate-related risks.

COVID-19 had multiple impacts on the electric sector and the nature of those impacts varied on the scale analyzed.

To improve the study of human-Earth interactions, a 10-year vision report by the MultiSector Dynamics community of practice encourages the use of emerging human systems datasets, embedded intelligence in modeling, and workforce diversity.

The Triton Initiative highlights different creative science communications, including photography, writing, and science art, and the impact they have on the project's marine energy research.

Triton highlights research partners in environmental monitoring for marine energy.

Using a novel settlement-related dataset produced more accurate population downscaling than using other, more traditional datasets.

Despite an increase in future electricity demands, virtual water trading in the U.S. electricity sector is expected to decline as renewable energy expands.

Triton is piloting research on the interactions of receptors and anthropogenic light associated with marine energy devices.

The Triton Initiative introduces its next generation of projects focused on researching stressor/receptor interactions for marine energy applications.

Molly Grear, an ocean engineer in the Coastal Sciences Division at PNNL, recently helped middle school summer science camp students from Blatchley Middle School in Sitka, Alaska, design their own energy wave converters.

Internship focused on detecting and characterized baleen whale vocalization activity near the future PacWave test site in Newport, Oregon.

The Triton Initiative supports projects funded through U.S. Department of Energy funding opportunity announcements developing environmental monitoring technologies for marine energy.

Voice for ocean-based climate solutions and strategist for PNNL’s Coastal Sciences Division, Simon Geerlofs, speaks about the Triton Initiative.

Samantha Eaves discusses the future of marine energy and her role with Triton from the Department of Energy Water Power Technologies Office perspective.