Cut U.S. Commercial Building Energy Use 29% with Widespread Controls
The U.S. could slash its energy use by the equivalent of what is currently used by 12 to 15 million Americans if commercial buildings fully used energy-efficiency controls nationwide.
Marine Energy for Aquaculture
Research efforts at PNNL to co-locate marine energy with aquaculture developments for more sustainable operations.
Rising Tide Lifts All Buoys
PNNL served as workshop partner for the 2024 Marine Technology Society Buoy Workshop, held this year in Sequim, Washington, where PNNL operates the only marine research facilities in the Department of Energy system.
GridAPPS-D
GridAPPS-D is an open-source, open architecture, standards based platform for development of advanced electric power system planning and operations applications. GridAPPS-D provides a documented data abstraction for the application developer enabling creation of applications that can be run in any compliant system or platform. This enables development of applications that are platform vendor independent applications and applications that take advantage of the possibility of data rich and data driven applications based on deployment of smart grid devices and systems.
PNNL to Install 24-Hour Flow Battery in Richland Campus
This is the first time a flow battery with 24-hour discharge capacity will be deployed and tested in a field environment.
New Sodium, Aluminum Battery Aims to Integrate Renewables for Grid Resiliency
A new sodium battery technology shows promise for helping integrate renewable energy into the electric grid. The battery uses Earth-abundant raw materials such as aluminum and sodium.
Rebecka Bence Iveson
Generative AI
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Generative AI (GenAI) investment aims to harness this transformative technology to drive innovation across the science, energy, and security research domains.