Archived News

The Idaho Business Review ran the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce article by David White (originally published Oct. 20) about PNNL's EV and wind integration study. 11.3.11
The TRIDEC e-newsletter ran a blurb about the Lab Homes ribbon cutting event on Nov. 15. 11.3.11
EEWeb (online community for electrical engineers) ran a profile article featuring PNNL's Trishan Esram. 11.11
Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary wrote a story about the three teams who received 2011 Secretarial Honor Awards from Sec. Chu for their work responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Fukushima Daiichi disaster, and securing spent nuclear fuel in Kazakhstan. The article also ran in the Tacoma News-Tribune. 10.28.11
Sustainable Business Oregon's Christina Williams published a piece about PNNL's Secretarial Honor Awards. R&D Magazine also ran the press release. 10.27.11
Technology Review's Kevin Bullis mentions PNNL, and includes a photo from the EIOC, in an article about the software development for the smart grid. 10.26.11
The Japan Times and GreenEcoPath.com quoted PNNL scientist Yasuo Onishi shared his decontamination expertise during a symposium recommending public involvement in cleanup decision-making following the nuclear event crippling the Fukushima reactors earlier this year. 10.25.11
ClimateWire's Saqib Rahim quotes Naomi Miller in a story about the lightbulb industry trying to change the reputation of CFL bulbs. (Subscription required, full text available from Annie Haas.) 10.24.11
Biorefining Magazine's Bryan Sims reported that OriginOil is working with PNNL, INL and NREL to develop biomass conversion standards. 10.24.11
Forest Business Network reported that PNNL is working with Imperium Renewables to develop a catalytic process to convert biomass to jet fuel. 10.21.11
The GridWise Alliance mentioned Mike Kluse in a press release about its lineup of speakers for the GridWise Global Forum. 10.20.11
Electronics Weekly's Steve Bush mentioned PNNL's research with manganese batteries in an article about the US casting a wide net to develop better storage. 10.20.11
Portland Daily Journal of Commerce contributor David White wrote a great article about PNNL's EV & wind integration report. 10.19.11
The Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Communications Blog featured Praveen Thallapally's work with metal organic frameworks. 10.18.11
The Mainichi Daily News (Japan) quoted PNNL scientist Yasuo Onishi who suggested preferred decontamination approaches and more efficient and safe cleanup efforts during a symposium of international experts at Fukushima this past weekend. 10.17.11
Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Harold Bubil quoted PNNL's Subrato Chandra in an article about an extremely energy efficient retrofitted cottage. 10.14.11
EarthFix's Courtney Flatt featured Jun Cui, Ewa Ronnebro and Pete McGrail in three separate Q&A pieces about the ARPA-E awards. 10.14.11
EarthTechling reported that PNNL with working with Imperium Renewables to develop a catalytic process to make biomass into bio-based jet fuel. 10.14.11
Cogeneration & On-site Power Production Magazine and Power Engineering International editor Steve Hodgson covered the news about the combined heat and power fuel cell research project with PNNL and ClearEdge Power. 10.12.11
Civil Engineering News mentioned Yong Wang in a story about his new catalyst that can convert ethanol from biomass into isobutene. 10.11.11
USA Today's Dan Vergano re-tweeted the link to PNNL's YouTube video featuring PNNL's Landis Kannberg talking about the electrical grid. 10.11.11
Sarasota Herald-Tribune writer Harold Bubil quoted PNNL's Subrato Chandra in an article about deep energy retrofits. 10.8.11
The Hillsboro (Oregon) Argus' Kurt Eckert wrote about the fuel cell research project with ClearEdge Power and PNNL, at Portland Community College. 10.4.11
DOE's EERE Office of Fuel Cell Technologies issued news brief and a statement from Secretary Chu about the ClearEdge Power combined heat and power fuel cell project, which includes PNNL. 10.4.11
Concordia University put out a news release about a Nature Biotechnology fungi sequencing paper co-written by many researchers, including PNNL's Scott Baker. 10.3.11
The Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary covered PNNL's win of three ARPA-E research grants. 10.1/11
Northwest Public Radio's Courtney Flatt features Carl Imhoff in a piece about new regional transmission lines. 10.11
Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported on several PNNL-related news items, including:
Praveen Thallapally was named an editor for Crystal Growth & Design. 10.11
Tri-City Area Journal of Business ran an article about PNNL's ARPA-E awards. 10.11
BioFuels Journal's Jerry Perkins quotes PNNL's Yong Wang about his ethanol to isobutene catalyst. 10.11
Green Car Congress mentioned PNNL in a story about ARPA-E's latest round of funding. 9.30.11
A number of publications including Alternative Energy Newswire, EDTA Weekly e-newsletter, North American Windpower, Scientific Computing, Supercomputing Online, and the Tacoma News Tribune covered the news about PNNL's ARPA-E awards. 9.30.11
Biofuels International, Ethanol Market, Aero News Network and Scientific Computing reported that PNNL and Imperium Renewables are developing a method using catalysts to turn biomass into renewable jet fuel. 9.29.11
A number of publications including Sustainable Business Oregon's Christina Williams reported on the ribbon-cutting of the combined heat and power fuel cell research project. A number of online publications also picked up the press release about the event, including Intelligent Utility, CNBC, EnergyBiz and Energy Central. 9.29.11
Platts' Matthew Kohlman, Biofuels Digest's Jim Lane and Biodiesel Magazine's Bryan Sims reported that PNNL and Imperium Renewables are developing a method using catalysts to turn biomass into renewable jet fuel. The story followed a news release distributed by Imperium, which was also reposted on several other websites. 9.28.11
Food Safety News' Gretchen Goetz quoted PNNL's Justin Teeguarden (from a previous Forbes article) in a story about BPA safety. 9.27.11
National Review Online mentioned PNNL in a story about BPA. The story talked about how people overreact to certain chemicals in their food, which at low levels do no harm but at higher levels can. 9.26.11
Forbes's Trevor Butterworth mentioned PNNL and Justin Teeguarden in a story about BPA and breast cancer. Don't Inject BPA Into Your Breasts - And That Goes For Men Too!, Breast Cancer Fund Study: Science Or Class Warfare? 9.22.11
The office of U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell referenced the PNNL EV & wind integration study in a press release pushing a more technology neutral tax credit. 9.22.11
Blog Planet Geospatial/Between the Poles did a nice write-up of Tuffner and Kintner-Meyer's EV & wind study. 9.22.11
Smart Grid News's Jesse Berst wrote an article about two of PNNL's grid analytics tools. 9.21.11
Biorefining Magazine's Luke Geiver reported that DOE will partly base a new national assessment of the resource potential of algae-grown for biofuels on a recent PNNL study that quantified how much biofuel could be produced from U.S.-grown algae. 9.20.11
Wired's Dan Koeppel quoted PNNL's Kelly Gordon in an article about LED lightbulbs and the L-Prize. 9.19.11
Chemical & Engineering News' Jyllian Kemsley quoted PNNL's Jay Grate, Samuel Bryan and Matthew O'Hara in a story about analytical chemists who devise ways to watch radioactive streams, presented at the American Chemical Society meeting. 9.19.11
Chemical Processing Magazine quoted PNNL's Yong Wang about his isobutene catalyst. 9.11
Lori Matsukawa of KING-TV in Seattle interviewed PNNL's Yasuo Onishi for a story on his work advising Japan about radioactive cleanup following the Fukushima nuclear crisis this spring. 9.15.11
Northwest Public Radio's Courtney Flatt quoted PNNL's Tom Carlson in a story on PNNL's efforts to improve the Sensor Fish technology. The story was also broadcast by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW-FM. 9.14.11
A number of outlets, including EV World, MSNBC, Smart Grid News, Green Car Congress, Platt's Inside Energy Extra, KNDU-TV, Northwest Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, R&D magazine and Science Business covered Frank Tuffner and Michael Kintner-Meyer's EV & wind report press release. 9.13.11
Energy Blog ran a story on using ancient glass to study vitrification. 9.12.11
The Sequim Gazette's Mark Couhig quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping in a story on PNNL's research examining the environmental impacts of marine power development. 9.7.11
Green Car Congress, KEPR-TV, Water Power Magazine and PennEnergy reported that PNNL has been awarded $299,000 by DOE to improve the design of Sensor Fish technology, which measures press changes and movement that fish experience as they pass through hydroelectric dam turbines. The Bureau of Reclamation also announced this in a press release. 9.7.11
An Associated Press article on carbon sequestration appeared on SentinelandEnterprise.com mentioning PNNL's CCS pilot project near Wallula. 9.5.11
The Sacramento Bee published a guest column by Pike Research's Peter Asmus on the wind turbine industry in California that mentions research by PNNL and others about the amount of payback consumers receive for installing small wind turbines. 9.4.11
U.S. News & World Report's website posted a National Science Foundation article that lists PNNL as a research partner with the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations. 8.31.11
KNDU-TV's Chloe Beardsley quoted PNNL's Geoff McMichael and Kate Deters in a story featuring PNNL's Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System. 8.30.11
The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy ran an authored article by co-editor Michael Kintner-Meyer, discussing the need to become urgent with our development and deployment of S&T. 8.30.11
Peninsula Daily News's Rob Ollikainen reported that PNNL, NASA and other agencies helped establish a lab on Peninsula College's Port Angeles, Wash., campus in a story on climate change research partly done at the lab. 8.29.11
Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary ran an article about Battelle's award for CO₂ capture. 8.27.11
Several publications including the Associated Press, Olympian, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Seattle Times, published a story about Battelle's award to research a cost-cutting carbon dioxide capture technology. 8.25.11
News Release - “Battelle receives $2 million award to test energy efficient carbon capture,” Battelle was awarded $1.99 million from the Department of Energy to study how cost-effectively a new carbon dioxide capture process can work to pull greenhouse gases out of power plant emissions. 8.25.11
Several publications including wire services, Fast Company, Greentech Grid, Platts Inside Energy and Sustainable Business Oregon, ran a story about PNNL partner company ClearEdge security $75 million in venture capital funding to continue development of its refrigerator-sized fuel cell system. PNNL was mentioned in the company's press release and in a few of the stories. 8.23.11
Outlets continue to cover how PNNL materials scientists Denis Strachan and Joseph Ryan are using 1800-year-old glass to better understand how nuclear waste stored as glass might age, including A Blog About History. 8.22.11
Public Utilities Fortnightly ran an authored article by PNNL's Carl Imhoff that describes the various aspects of the power system that must be considered, and why, in order to achieve transformation of the nation's electric grid by 2050. 8.11
Earth2Tech's Katie Fehrenbacher included a photo of the EIOC in an article about the influx of data on the grid and how it will be handled. The article also ran in GigaOM and on CNNMoney.com. 8.15.11
BBC's Naked Scientist show interviewed PNNL's Morris Bullock on his work studying super-fast catalyst that makes hydrogen that was published last week in Science. Chemical & Engineering News and others also covered the story. 8.15.11
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breaks_speed_record/
Outlets continue to cover how PNNL materials scientists Denis Strachan and Joseph Ryan are using 1800-year-old glass to better understand how nuclear waste stored as glass might age Fox News, Seattle Times, KPLU (NPR), CBS Radio, Westwood One, Nuclear Street and Nuclear Decommissioning Blog. 8.12.11
Local television and newspaper reporters covered how PNNL materials scientists Denis Strachan and Joseph Ryan are using 1800-year-old glass to better understand how nuclear waste stored as glass might age. Multiple outlets carried the story, including the Tri-City Herald, KNDU-TV, KEPR-TV, KVEW-TV, the Associated Press, the Tacoma News Tribune, and Fox News. 8.12.11
Chemistry World's Josh Howgego quoted PNNL's Morris Bullock in a story on the fastest catalyst that can make hydrogen, inspired by a natural enzyme. 8.11.11
News Release - "Two PNNL scientists named ACS Fellows," PNNL chemists Janet Bryant and Gregg Lumetta are among 213 distinguished researchers nationwide recognized by the American Chemical Society, also known as ACS, for their "outstanding achievements in and contributions to science and the profession of chemistry." 8.9.11
Northwest Public Radio aired an audio segment on carbon capture and sequestration quoting PNNL's Pete McGrail who provided the status of the Wallula pilot demo in southeastern Washington. McGrail gave a presentation to the Northwest Public Power and Conservation Council this week. 8.9.11
Multiple outlets reported on a new PNNL catalyst that can turn bio-ethanol into isobutene. Biofuel Daily, AgroTimes. 8.8.11
Multiple outlets reported on a new PNNL catalyst that can turn bio-ethanol into isobutene, including Oregon Public Broadcasting's Courtney Flatt, Portland Daily Journal of Commerce's Lindsey O'Brien, Green Car Congress, Science 2.0, and R&D Magazine. 8.4.11
EarthTechling's Pete Danko quoted PNNL's Jason Zhang as as an expert on lithium air batteries in a story about work out of MIT. 8.4.11
Earth Techling reported that PNNL is testing how marine life could be affected by tidal turbines at a planned pilot project at Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound, Washington state. 8.3.11
News Release - "PNNL receives regional technology transfer awards," The Federal Laboratory Consortium - Far West Region has bestowed two awards upon Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for Outstanding Commercialization Success. Contributors to this technology transfer include John Holladay, John Frye, Dennis Stiles, and Alan Zacher, all of Energy and Environment Directorate, Eric Lund, Technology Deployment & Outreach, Todd Werpy (ADM, former PNNL employee), and James White (former PNNL employee). 8.3.11
PhyOrg.com posted an article noting PNNL's involvement in the Wallula, Wash., carbon sequestration pilot demo. The injection is expected to take place later this year. 8.1.11
News Release - "A new catalyst for ethanol made from biomass," Researchers in the Pacific Northwest have developed a new catalyst material that could replace chemicals currently derived from petroleum and be the basis for more environmentally friendly products including octane-boosting gas and fuel additives, bio-based rubber for tires and a safer solvent for the chemicals industry. 8.1.11
Blog Latest Energy News mentions PNNL's sodium-ion battery work in an article about company Aquion's work in bulk grid storage. 8.1.11
Electrical Wholesaling magazine mentions PNNL in an article about the L-Prize for lighting design. 7.11
Blog Incoming's John Phipps mentions PNNL and the GFAC in a post about the grid adjusting to demand and Encryptor licensing the GFAC technology. 7.31.11
KNDU-TV's Bryant Maddrick reported on PNNL's biofuels research in a story about biofuels for hydroplane boats and airplanes. 7.28.11
Resource Investor's Ken Reser mentioned PNNL research on manganese ion battery electrodes in a story on the use of manganese in electrical applications. 7.28.11
DOE Energy Blog and Offshore Wind reported on PNNL's research benefitting efforts to install a tidal power pilot project in Admiralty Inlet, Washington State. 7.27.11
The American Chemical Society featured a podcast with PNNL's Gary Yang called "Bright prospects for green electric grid," as part of its Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions series. 7.25.11
Multiple outlets reported on a new PNNL catalyst that can turn bio-ethanol into isobutene, including Oregon Public Broadcasting's Courtney Flatt, Portland Daily Journal of Commerce's Lindsey O'Brien, Green Car Congress, Science 2.0, and R&D Magazine. 8.4.11
EarthTechling's Pete Danko quoted PNNL's Jason Zhang as as an expert on lithium air batteries in a story about work out of MIT. 8.4.11
Earth Techling reported that PNNL is testing how marine life could be affected by tidal turbines at a planned pilot project at Admiralty Inlet in Puget Sound, Washington state. 8.3.11
PhyOrg.com posted an article noting PNNL's involvement in the Wallula, Wash., carbon sequestration pilot demo. The injection is expected to take place later this year. 8.1.11
Blog Latest Energy News mentions PNNL's sodium-ion battery work in an article about company Aquion's work in bulk grid storage. 8.1.11
Blog Incoming's John Phipps mentions PNNL and the GFAC in a post about the grid adjusting to demand and Encryptor licensing the GFAC technology. 7.31.11
KNDU-TV's Bryant Maddrick reported on PNNL's biofuels research in a story about biofuels for hydroplane boats and airplanes. 7.28.11
Resource Investor's Ken Reser mentioned PNNL research on manganese ion battery electrodes in a story on the use of manganese in electrical applications. 7.28.11
DOE Energy Blog and Offshore Wind reported on PNNL's research benefitting efforts to install a tidal power pilot project in Admiralty Inlet, Washington State. 7.27.11
The American Chemical Society featured a podcast with PNNL's Gary Yang called "Bright prospects for green electric grid," as part of its Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions series. 7.25.11
Multiple outlets quoted PNNL's Jason Zhang as an expert on lithium air batteries in a story about work out of MIT, including Nanowerk News, Chloregy, and Focal Car. 7.25.11
Residential Lighting online mentioned PNNL in an article about the L-Prize receiving two more entries. Before now, Philips was the only company in the running for the prize. Now GE and small company Lighting Science Group, or LSG, are in the mix. 7.25.11
GreenTech Media mentioned PNNL in an article about ClearEdge receiving additional venture capital funding for building combined heat and power fuel cells. 7.25.11
GreenTech Media mentioned PNNL in an article about ClearEdge receiving additional venture capital funding for building combined heat and power fuel cells. 7.25.11
LEDs magazine quoted PNNL's Kelly Gordon in an article about LED replacement lamps, written after a recent Solid State Lighting Program workshop. 7.22.11
Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning, or HPAC, Magazine mentioned PNNL's Marc Ledbetter as a participant in a forthcoming DOE webinar about LED lighting. 7.19.11
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers mentioned PNNL's smart appliance analysis in an article about AHAM and other petitioning EPA to account for grid friendly and smart appliances as part of the ENERGY STAR program. 7.8.11
Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business reported on four PNNL-related items: Elizabeth Vela Stephens has been named one of the Top 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine; PNNL won two R&D 100 awards; Gary Spanner has been elected to the board of the Children's Reading Foundation of the Mid-Columbia; and Whitney Colella was elected to attend the National Academy of Engineering's 17th Annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium. 7.11
Renew Grid and Twice cite a PNNL cost-benefit analysis of having smart grid-capable appliances in stories about a push by the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers to urge federal agencies to recognize the benefits of smart appliances and hasten the development of the smart grid. The PNNL analysis found that the benefits of smart grid-capable appliances are greater than the costs of making machines five percent more efficient. 7.6.11
Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary reported on collaboration between PNNL and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). An AIST fungal researcher was at PNNL during the March 11 earthquake as a visiting scientist and has extended his stay through January while AIST gets its feet back on the ground following the earthquake's aftermath. 7.5.11
The Toronto (Canada) Star ran a column about algal biofuels for aviation by Tyler Hamilton that cites recent PNNL research that found 17 percent of U.S. oil imports for transportation could be sustainably replaced with algal biofuels. 7.1.11
News Release - "Colella elected to attend national academy symposium".
Whitney Colella, a senior research engineer at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is one of 85 people across the country elected to attend the National Academy of Engineering's 17th annual Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

The annual symposium brings together the best and brightest of early career engineers between the ages of 30 and 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in industry, academia and government. The goal is to encourage collaboration between different disciplines. 6.28.11
The Energy Collective's James Greenberger mentioned PNNL in a blog post about the Beyond Lithion Ion battery symposium. 6.27.11
Mitch Jacoby wrote about Yong Wang's latest cool catalyst, makes isobutene from ethanol. 6.27.11
EarthTechlin's Jasmine Green covered the news about PNNL and ClearEdge's partnership to test combined heat and power fuel cells. 6.25.11
KVEW-TV's Josh Peterson reported that PNNL won two R&D 100 awards. 6.24.11
Science magazine's Bob Service provides an overview of some the research featured at the 4th Beyond Lithium Ion Symposium held June 7-9, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. (Full content available by subscription only.) 6.24.11
Tri-City Herald, Scientific Computing and a handful of other outlets reported on the two R&D 100 Awards that PNNL has won.
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SFGate 6.23.11
Nature's Neil Savage quoted PNNL's Mark Wigmosta discussing his research into the amount of land and water needed to sustainably grow algae for biofuel. 6.22.11
R&D Magazine reported that PNNL researchers have developed a model of the cyanobacterium Cyanothece. 6.23.11
E-week's Darryl Taft and a myriad of other online publications quoted Ron Melton and mentioned the PNW-SGDP in an article about IBM launching new Netezza software that's also being used in the demo project. 6.22.11
News Release - "PNNL wins 2 R&D 100 Awards". 6.22.11
Energy Blog's Ben Squires mentioned PNNL in a story about using fungus to make oil that can replace fossil fuels. 6.21.11
Electric Light & Power guest author Ravi Mandalika of company Wipro Technologies mentioned PNNL's 2006-07 PHEV impact assessment in an article about renewable on the smart grid. 6.20.11
Houston Examiner's Sandy Dechert mentioned that PNNL has one of the three most-used climate models in a story about climate change. 6.19.11
Biorefining Magazine's Luke Geiver quoted PNNL's John Holladay, who serves as the chief technology officer for the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium (NABC), on the NABC's efforts to develop the most promising and innovative advanced biofuels technologies. 6.17.11
Energy Efficiency & Technology and other online outlets covered a DOE CALIPER (lighting) program press release in which a study about LEDs, conducted by PNNL, was mentioned. 6.14.11
TechCrunch.com, Green Car Congress, R&D magazine and The Washington Post covered the announcement of the ClearEdge Power and PNNL combined heat and power fuel cell system research award. 6.14.11
Reuters picked up an article from Green Building Elements Matt Smith about the expansion of DOE's High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program. 6.14.11
Multiple outlets mentioned PNNL researchers in a story about sodium-manganese oxide rechargeable batteries, including the Energy Daily, Cutting Edge, ElectroIQ, Solar Novus, Innovation Toronto. 6.14.11
News Release - "Can a greenhouse grow energy savings, too?" Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will analyze the energy savings generated from the ClearEdge5 combined heat and power fuel cell system in a variety of smaller buildings on the West Coast as part of an award from the Department of Energy. 6.14.11
ClimateWire's Pete Behr mentioned the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project in an article about the White House's plan for a 21st century electric grid. The administration will rely heavily on learning from the regional demonstration projects to inform their policy. The New York Times online picked up the story. 6.13.11
Solar Novus Today's Nancy Lamontagne reported that PNNL researchers have increased the electrical capacity and recharging lifetime of sodium ion rechargeable batteries. 6.13.11
Greentech Media's Michael Kanellos mentioned PNNL's battery work in a story about an energy storage conference he was attending in San Jose, Calif. 6.9.11
Green Car Congress's Mike Millikin reported on VW's Mark Verbrugge's talk about "we need more" battery research, and mentioned PNNL, in an article from the Li-ion Symposium. 6.8.11
KNDU's Chris Holstrom interviewed St Andrews chemistry professor Bruce Peter in a story about the Beyond Lithium Ion symposium held at PNNL this week. 6.8.11
Tri-City Herald reported that PNNL's Elizabeth Vela Stephens has been named one of the 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine. 6.8.11
News Release - "The heat is on for sodium-manganese oxide rechargeable batteries," New method to make sodium ion-based battery cells could lead to better, cheaper batteries for the electrical grid. 6.7.11
Sustainable Business Oregon's Christina Williams quoted Jason Zhang in an article about the Beyond Li-ion Symposium at PNNL. 6.6.11
Tri-City Herald ran a brief about the Beyond Li-ion Symposium at PNNL. 6.4.11
A number of online outlets ran a press release from company Perma-Fix about their agreement with Battelle to license medical isotopes developed at PNNL. 6.3.11
News Release - "International experts converge at PNNL to go beyond lithium ion battery technology." Researchers from around the world will converge on PNNL's campus to discuss the newest battery technology that could make electric vehicles more affordable and reliable. 6.2.11
R&D magazine ran our media advisory about the Beyond Li-ion Symposium. 6.2.11
CBS/Smartplanet blogger and freelancer Melanie Kaplan ran a Q&A column with PNNL's Naomi Miller about LED lighting being used in art museums. 6.1.11
Pacific Gas & Electric "The Next 100" blogger Jonathan Marshall quoted PNNL's Peter Christensen in an article about smart appliances. 5.31.11
The Olympian published an editorial supporting the Northwest aviation biofuels industry that states PNNL is "well positioned as (an) advanced biofuels leader." 5.26.11
LED Weekly magazine and other online publications ran a press release from company Solais that quotes PNNL’s Naomi Miller. Solais is working with Naomi and the Solid State Lighting program to design an exhibit at the Smithsonian using LED lighting. 5.25.11
Seattle Green Policy Examiner mentioned Gary Yang's Chem. Reviews paper and the upcoming Beyond Li-ion Conference in an article about green electricity needing better batteries. 5.24.11
In two of a three-partseries of earthquake risks in Eastern Washington state, KING5.com mentions that PNNL did earthquake hazard studies near Hanford. The second story provides a link to PNNL's first quarter FY 11 report of seismic activity at Hanford and also names PNNL seismologist Alan Rohay. PNNL no longer does this work and no PNNL staff members were interviewed for the stories. 5.23.11
Matter Network, Energy Central and ApplianceMagazine.com all mentioned PNNL in articles about a new smart grid project on Maui. 5.19.11
Tri-City Herald's Annette Cary reported that PNNL is a research partner in a project led by the Port of Benton and Washington State University Tri-Cities to convert agricultural waste into jet fuel, diesel or gasoline. Biofuels Digest also reported on the research. WSU distributed a press release. 5.17.11
Company Hitachi mentions PNNL as a partner in a smart grid project on the island of Maui. Several online publications picked up the release, including Green Car Congress. 5.17.11
Oregon Public Broadcasting blogger Cassandra Profita features PNNL's Carl Imhoff in a post on smart grid research and development. 5.16.11
Sustainable Business Oregon's Christina Williams mentions PNNL in a story about PNNL licensee Perpetua. 5.16.11
Multiple outlets quoted PNNL's Scott Baker in a story on a fungus with the potential to make industrial chemicals and biofuels, including R&D Magazine, Biofuel Daily, MediLexicon, Medical News Today and Bright Surf. 5.16.11
Window and Door ran an authored article by Graham Parker about Phase II of DOE’s High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program. 5.16.11
Door and Window Manufacturer magazine, or DWM, encouraged its readers to spread the word about DOE''s High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program, in an Op-ed written by editor Tara Taffera. 5.16.11
LEDs Magazine mentions PNNL's Eric Richman in an article about a June 20 webcast featuring LED lamps. 5.16.11
Supercomputing online and a variety of other publications picked up the DOE Joint Genome Institute press release that mentions PNNL's Scott Baker and work with Aspargillus niger bacteria to develop better biofuels. 5.11
News Release - "Making it easier to buy highly insulating windows"
Next phase of DOE's High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program offers expanded website, product selection for residential and commercial buyers. 5.2.11
Yahoo! Finance Canada and a handful of other websites republished a press release from Energizer Resources that included a report on PNNL research into improving the vanadium redox battery. 5.2.11
A number of online outlets covered the launch of Phase II of the High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program, including: Energy Efficiency in the Home, Green Environment News, The Green Living Guy and R&D Magazine. 5.2.11
Inside Energy's Derek Sands quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping on how environmental reviews and devices with new technologies are making regulatory approval of marine power projects a challenge. (Subscription only) 5.11
Sustainable Business Oregon's Lee van der Voo quoted PNNL's Michael Kintner-Meyer in a story about water pumped energy storage. 4.21.11
Greenwire, Biorefining Magazine, Green Tech Media, Conceivably Tech and The Green Car Website reported on PNNL's algae biofuel research. 4.18.11
Environmental 360, a Yale University publication/website, quoted PNNL's Ted Poston about how ocean water, fish and the environment react to radionuclides. 4.7.11
Huffington Post columnists Rey Ramsey and Fred Krupp mention PNNL reports (from OlyPen) in an article about what America gets from greening the grid. 4.5.11
Forbes blogger and columnist Bill Pentland ran an article about PNNL's Grid Friendly Appliance Controller and the associated policy issues. 4.5.11
A number of Florida outlets mentioned PNNL's Steve Widergren in articles about his panel presentation at Florida State University regarding economic impact and job growth related to smart grid. Outlets included: Tallahassee Democrat, Miami Herald, Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Ocala Star-Banner. 4.5.11
R&D Magazine online ran a brief about PNNL managing the High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program for DOE. 4.5.11
Chemical Engineering magazine ran a brief about PNNL's ASSR natural gas sweetening process (page 16). 4.11
Crosscut's Erik Neumann quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping in a story about Snohomish PUD's tidal power project at Admiralty Inlet in Washington state. 3.31.11
Popular Science's Rebecca Boyle reports on PNNL's adsorption chiller that uses waste heat to cool buildings. 3.31.11
Technology Review's Kevin Bullis reports on PNNL's adsorption chiller that uses waste heat to cool buildings. 3.30.11
Smart Grid News' Jesse Berst wrote an editorial piece about Battelle's Active Demand Response system that was developed at PNNL during the PNW OlyPen Smart Grid Demo and is now being used in the AEP Ohio/regional smart grid demonstration. 3.29.11
EETimes' Rick Merritt quotes Jeff Dagle in a special issue of the publication to benefit Japan, in an article about preparing the grid for disaster mitigation. 3.28.11
Seattle Times' Craig Welch quotes Mike Davis in an article about the future of coal exports and clean energy standards in the state of Washington. 3.26.11
Tri-City Herald ran an article about PNNL's electrochemical energy storage review published in the journal Chemical Reviews. R&D Magazine, Science Daily and blog SmartPlanet also covered the news. 3.8.11
Door and Window Manufacturer magazine quoted Todd Taylor in an article about DOE's and PNNL's efforts to improve commercial building energy codes. 3.8.11
The Herald-Gazette of Knox County, Maine, mentioned PNNL's research into the electromagnetic effects of marine power in a story about an offshore wind project near Monhegan, Maine. 3.4.11
Several websites carried articles about Battelle's development of an injectable cancer treatment and its licensing by Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation in Richland. The radio gel with an yttrium-90 source can be injected directly into a tumor to deliver a high dose of cancer-killing radiation. 3.3.11
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Energy Design Update quoted Krishnan Gowri in an article about the ASHRAE 90.1 building energy code standard.
The Tri-City Herald published an article on about the development of an injectable cancer treatment and its licensing by Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation in Richland. The radio gel with an yttrium-90 source can be injected directly into a tumor to deliver a high dose of cancer-killing radiation. 3.3.11
The New York Times Jim Motavalli quoted Michael Kintner-Meyer in an article about the grid's ability to handle an influx of electric vehicles. 2.28.11
The Tri-City Herald and News Tribune (Tacoma) featured articles on PNNL's involvement in a fertility study that showed promise for women undergoing cancer treatment to remain fertile. PNNL's Mark Murphy developed a device to assist in the study's radiation treatments. 2.28.11
ClimateWire's Pete Behr quoted Gordon Graff and EaglePicher's Dave Lucero in an article about our collective ARPA-E battery research project. 2.28.11
Glass magazine quoted Graham Parker in an article about the new and improved DOE Windows Volume Purchase Program. 2.23.11
PNNL's Praveen Thallapally is currently featured on DOE-HQ's "10 Questions for a...Material Chemist" Blog. This is the first of several such blog posts expected in the near future. 2.24.11
Greensource magazine (online) and Glass Magazine (online) covered the Engineering News Record article about the Building Energy Codes Program's work to increase buildings energy efficiency. 2.24.11
Environmental Research Web ran PNNL's story about sulfur emissions rising after a decade's decline. 2.23.11
LEDs Magazine mentioned Ruth Taylor in an article about the Strategies in Light conference. 2.23.11
R&D Magazine, Water & Wastewater Online, and Pollution Online mentioned PNNL in a story about microbial iron decreasing technetium contamination. 2.22.11
ClimateWire's Joey Peters quoted PNNL's Andrea in a story about testing environmental impacts of hydrokinetic power. (subscription required) 2.18.11
Window & Door magazine's John Swanson ran a Q&A with Graham Parker about the next phase of DOE's High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program. 2.17.11
Tri-City Herald's Michelle Dupler quoted PNNL's Peter Christensen in an article about the third annual Clean Energy Independence Day in Olympia, Wash. 2.17.11
Tri-City Herald ran an article about PNNL's Sarah Widder being named a New Face of Engineering 2011. 2.17.11
HPAC Engineering mentioned PNNL in an article about DOE developing the next generation of high-efficiency air conditioning units. 2.15.11
Biofuels Digest lists PNNL as a member of the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts consortium in a story on the "movers and shakers" in algae biofuels. 2.15.11
Daily Journal of Commerce, Oregon's Sue Vorenberg quotes PNNL's Michael Baechler and Ron Nesse in an article about our work with Home Depot as part of phase 2 of the Commercial Buildings Partnership. 2.14.11
The Oil and Gas Journal ran an article by PNNL's Daryl Brown, Jim Cabe and Tyson Stout about PNNL using Oil and Gas Journal data to develop a conceptual capital cost estimating tool for onshore oil and gas pipelines.
Green Car Congress quoted PNNL's Yong Wang in a story about work showing metal oxide can pin a platinum catalyst to graphene. 2.8.11
Smart Grid Today mentioned the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project in an article about participant Idaho Falls Power picking Lockheed Martin as a vendor for the project. 2.4.11
Smart Grid Today ran an article about new GridWise Architecture Council chairman Erich Gunther and its two new elected members, based on our announcement late last week. No link available. 2.4.11
Peninsula Daily News' Tom Callis cited PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory as a reason why more green energy projects could succeed in the Olympic Peninsula. 1.27.11
The DWM e-Newsletter wrote about the launch of the next phase of the Windows Volume Purchase Program, and featured PNNL's Terry Mapes. 1.27.11
Capital Press' Steve Brown quoted Imperium Renewables' John Plaza as saying his company is working with PNNL to make biofuel from forest, agricultural and municipal solid waste. 1.27.11
A RenewablesBiz article about the status of the lab's carbon sequestration project at Wallula was featured in the Walla Walla newspaper and on other websites. 1.27.11
Portland Daily Journal of Commerce's Nathalie Weinstein quoted PNNL's John Holladay discussing xylose's role in the development of cellulosic biofuels for a story about a startup xylose supply company. 1.26.11
Energy Storage Forum mentions PNNL's new video on catalysis in a story about energy storage. 1.25.11
Philadelphia Inquirer's Sandy Bauer quoted PNNL's Michael Myer in an article about the next generation of consumer lighting. She also ran a nice sidebar about lighting. 1.24.11
LEDs magazine online mentioned PNNL's Mia Paget in an article about a DOE lighting webcast. 1.24.11
Tri-City Herald published a story about PNNL's three 2010 FLC awards. 1.21.11
Miller-McCune's Joan Melcher published a question-and-answer story with PNNL's Peter Christensen on the smart grid. 1.21.11
A guest on NPR's Science Friday mentioned PNNL's report about the smart grid's impact on carbon emissions. 1.21.11
Sustainable Business.com mentions PNNL's smart appliance analysis in an article about the AHAM petition. 1.21.11
Sustainable Business Oregon's Christina Williams wrote an article about PNNL's research relationship with China and opportunities stemming from that. 1.21.11
The Tri-City Herald published a brief story on the availability of nearly 300 technologies, including 30 from PNNL, online as part of DOE's new Energy Innovation Portal. The portal is an online resource designed to help investors, entrepreneurs and companies that are seeking cutting-edge energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies available for licensing. It also helps users identify opportunities to invest in work being conducted by DOE laboratories and participating research institutions. 1.21.11
The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, or TMS, mentions PNNL in a news release it issued about a new report from an energy storage workshop last year. 1.21.11
The Bend Bulletin (Bend, Ore.) republished a story by the McClatchy News Service that quoted PNNL's Andrea Copping and discussed PNNL's research into the potential environmental impacts of marine power devices. 1.14.11
The Electrical Distributor magazine quoted PNNL's Carol Jones about her take on lighting retrofits, as she mentioned in a Dec. 14, 2010 webinar. 1.14.11
Several websites published a Smart Energy Summit press release about its upcoming event in Austin, Texas, at which PNNL's Steve Widergren will speak. Several websites ran the release.1.14.11
LD+A magazine's Seth Warren Rose quoted PNNL's Michael Myer in an article about the use of reflectors in lighting design. 1.14.11
Platts Inside Energy's Derek Sands ran a piece about the kickoff of the Commercial Buildings Partnership projects, and PNNL's involvement with those. 1.14.11
NewStreetlights.com quoted PNNL's Marc Ledbetter as critiquing the methodology of a National Lighting Product Information Program report summarizing a test of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for streetlights. 1.7.11
Smart Energy Summit planners issued a press release about the upcoming summit in Austin, at which PNNL's Steve Widergren will speak. Several websites ran the release. 1.7.11
ACHR News, EnergyCentral, R&D magazine, SmartGridNews, Supercomputing online, the Tri-City Herald, and Platts Inside Energy, all ran pieces about PNNL's involvement with the Commercial Buildings Partnership. 1.7.11

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