Long-Duration Energy Storage: Crucial to a Reliable and Clean Electric Grid
PNNL energy storage experts express need for continued investment in developing and deploying long-duration energy storage.
PNNL Engineer Earns Best Paper Award
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers has given its 2022 Journal Paper Award to Jamie Kono, a PNNL building research engineer.
Next-generation Flow Battery Design Sets Records
A new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable fuels.
Research Team Creates New Resilience Analysis Tool for Grid Recovery
Recovery Simulator and Analysis tool further strengthens PNNL’s short-term resilience planning efforts for Puerto Rico.
Building-Grid Ideas Ascend to Summit
The Northwest Connected Communities Summit brought together representatives of five Department of Energy-funded Connected Communities Projects to share ideas and discuss potential collaboration opportunities.
Long-Duration Energy Storage: The Time Is Now
Findings in a new PNNL report show long-duration energy storage will be a necessity in decarbonizing the grid and recommends the planning and procurement process to identify those needs start immediately.
More Frequent Hurricanes Raise Risk to U.S. East and Gulf Coasts
New research finds that global warming will bring stronger and more frequent hurricanes to U.S. coasts, up by a third compared to current levels.
Ben Bond-Lamberty Outstanding Editor 2022 for Biogeosciences
Ben Bond-Lamberty, an Earth scientist, was recently awarded the Outstanding Editor Award 2022 for the scientific journal Biogeosciences.
“Simple” Solution Ciphers Building Savings
The Simple Building Calculator, developed at PNNL, meets a need for a quick, interactive, and economic method to evaluate energy use—and potential savings from efficiency measures—in simple commercial buildings.
PNNL Pens Market Success Report
Staff at PNNL recently completed a report highlighting commercial products enabled through projects funded by the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office.