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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 1-Jun-2025 14:09 ET (1-Jun-2025 18:09 GMT/UTC)

Floating solar panels could support US energy goals

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Federal reservoirs could help meet the country’s solar energy needs, according to a new study published in Solar Energy. For the study, Evan Rosenlieb and Marie Rivers, geospatial scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as well as Aaron Levine, a senior legal and regulatory analyst at NREL, quantified for the first time exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs. (Developers can find specific details for each reservoir on the website AquaPV.)

Journal: Solar Energy

Geochemist Kevin Rosso appointed a Battelle Fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Geochemist Kevin Rosso earns the highest scientific and leadership honor bestowed by PNNL.

ORNL partnership with EPB tests new method for protecting quantum networks

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.

The successful trial of this innovation marks another step toward the eventual creation of a quantum internet that could prove to be more capable and secure than existing networks.

Journal: Optics Express
Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Sujan elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Vivek Sujan, a distinguished R&D scientist in the Applied Research for Mobility Systems group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a 2024 National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, Fellow.

Pioneering new tool will spur advances in catalysis

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Catalysts do several surprising things to assist with daily life – from bread making to turning raw materials into fuels more efficiently. Now, SLAC researchers have developed a way to speed up the discovery process for a promising new class of these helpful substances called single atom catalysts.

Journal: Chemistry - Methods
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

SLAC will play a key role in DOE’s new research centers for advancing next-generation microelectronics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Funded by the Department of Energy, these centers are part of an effort that brings together national laboratories, universities and industry to invent and accelerate novel microelectronics technologies to operate efficiently or in extreme environments.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Students and faculty to join research teams this spring at Department of Energy National Laboratories and a fusion facility

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

A diverse group of 164 undergraduate students and six faculty will participate in unique workforce development programs at 11 of the nation’s national laboratories and a fusion facility during Spring 2025.

Robert McKeown recognized for a half century of distinguished service

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

For nearly half a century, Robert D. “Bob” McKeown has probed nuclear particles and educated rising generations of physicists. Now, the former deputy director for science at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is being honored for his outstanding career contributions with the 2024 American Physical Society’s Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Distinguished Service Award.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Microelectronics Science Research Centers to lead charge on next-generation designs and prototypes

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

A new generation of microelectronics research begins at PNNL.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Department of Energy announces $179 million for Microelectronics Science Research Centers

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $179 million in funding for three Microelectronics Science Research Centers (MSRCs). These three MSRCs will perform basic research in microelectronics materials, device and system design, and manufacturing science to transform future microelectronics technologies. The MSRCs were authorized by the Micro Act, passed in the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and complement the activities appropriated under the CHIPS and Science Act at the Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, and other agencies.

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