Smart Ideas Wanted for Grid Modernization
Plug and Play DER Challenge seeks to enable distributed energy technologies to integrate, connect and operate in harmony on the power grid.
Scientists Investigate Use of AI to Speed Analysis of Nuclear Materials
Scientists have tapped AI and powerful computing to speed up how quickly officials are able to learn important details about nuclear events.
Resources
The ConCord Initiative supports the enhancement of powerline corridors through innovation, partnerships, and information sharing. Below are available resources to learn more.
Program for Women in Renewables and Energy in SE Asia (WIRES)
A 6-month-long technical and professional development program is in development for women power engineers from Southeast Asia with interest in renewable energy.
PNNL's Sensor Fish
Laboratory Fellow Daniel Deng describes Sensor Fish, an autonomous device that records physical stressors that fish experience when they pass through a hydropower dam.
Next-gen Solvents Capture Carbon with Half the Energy
Power plants could capture their carbon emissions while using half the energy of traditional carbon capture methods with water-lean carbon capture solvents.
Steering the Future of Spent Nuclear Fuel
PNNL report reflects 10 years of dedication to effectively plan for the safe and uneventful removal of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
CRABEE
CRABEE is installed at PNNL-Sequim, providing power and data connectivity to Sequim Bay from the Department of Energy’s only marine research facility.
Redox Flow Battery Laboratories
PNNL has a series of three laboratories dedicated to researching, testing redox, and scaling up flow batteries—a battery type used primarily for power grid applications.
PNNL Pitches in for Perseverance Launch
Risk analysis on the plutonium-fueled power system that supplies electricity to the Mars rover answered the “what if” nuclear safety questions for NASA.