Coal Reinvestment Team
The PNNL team is helping communities with significant historical ties to fossil energy understand opportunities and pursue numerous federal resources available to support coal power plant redevelopment.
Robert Mueller
Robert (Bob) Mueller is a senior research scientist and his research focuses on fish passage evaluations in association with hydropower facilities and irrigation diversions across the Pacific Northwest.
Worldly Experience Is a Catalyst for Change
Bojana Ginovska leads a physical biosciences research team headed for PNNL's new Energy Sciences Center. She uses the transformative power of molecular catalysis and enzymes to explore scientific principles.
Scientists Widen the Temperature Range for Electric Car Batteries
PNNL researchers have created a chemical cocktail that could help electric cars power their way through extreme temperatures where current lithium-ion batteries don’t operate as efficiently as needed.
New Project Evaluates Long-term Hydrogen Storage Risks in the Emerald City
PNNL is working with the Port of Seattle and Seattle City Light to assess the risks of long-term hydrogen storage that can bring clean power for decarbonization.
The Impact of Pruning
PNNL researchers have shown an improved binarized neural network can deliver a low-cost and low-energy computation to help the performance of smart devices and the power grid.
Fish Reintroduction and River Connectivity
Fish reintroduction is the intentional establishment of a fish species in an area where it existed historically prior to hydropower development and other terrain changes to the species’ habitat.
Grid Research Just One Highlight for New PNNL Director
Led by Battelle in collaboration with the Bonneville Power Administration, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is the largest field test of smart grid systems to date.
In Search of the Perfect Dynamic Duo for Efficient Cooling
When the weather heats up, so does power demand for air conditioners and refrigerators. But what if you could cool things down by using heat itself instead of electricity?
BioPA
The Biological Performance Assessment (BioPA) toolset relates computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of hydraulic conditions to known impacts to fish to inform the design and operation and hydropower turbines.