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CEWD Announces New Get Into Energy Scholarship Fund
The Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD), in partnership with Scholarship America, recently announced the creation of the Get Into Energy Scholarship Fund, a national initiative designed to expand access to energy careers. The fund aims to grow paths to...
Department of Energy Grid Protection Awards Announced- PSE Enters Negotiations
The U.S Department of Energy announced an additional nearly $2 billion for projects that will protect the power grid against growing threats of extreme weather, lower costs for communities, and increase grid capacity to meet load growth. The 38 projects selected were...
Tech Giants Continue to Invest in Nuclear Power
An Amazon data center in Oregon. (AWS Photo) Last month, Microsoft announced a partnership with Constellation in Pennsylvania to restart Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, with Microsoft purchasing electricity generated by the plant to offset power demand from its data...
University of Washington CEI Plans New Open-Access Battery Lab
The dry room (-40°C dew point) will house a full suite of tools for mixing slurries, coating battery components, and the several-step process of assembling pouch cell batteries. (Chernoff Thompson Architects, UW CEI) The University of Washington Clean Energy Institute...
Hurricane Milton Makes Landfall, More Than Three Million Without Power
Duke Energy convened workers in preparation of Hurricane Milton (Duke Energy) Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida last night as a Category 3 hurricane, knocking out power to more than three million customers in the state. In advance of the storm, the Florida...
Let’s Celebrate Energy and Cybersecurity this October!
October is full of many wonderful and important events, and we would like to celebrate them all! Cybersecurity Awareness Month Enhance your awareness the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency National Clean Energy Action Month See the Presidential...
Hurricane Helene Leaves Electric Grid Damage in its Wake
(Restoration efforts in Mercer County, West Virginia. Courtesy: Sophia Fasano) Damage from Hurricane Helene becomes more clear days after the storm struck the southeast U.S., leaving more than 1.1 million customers still without power as crews work in difficult and...
Constellation and Microsoft Sign Agreement to Restart Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Credit: DOE) Constellation, an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers in 16 states and Washington, recently signed its largest-ever power purchase agreement. The 20-year agreement will restore and...
Clean Energy Clips, Fall 2024
Check out our Fall 2024 edition of Clean Energy Clips!This edition features the Directors Update, PNWH2 news, a funding opportunity through CCW, the BEACON project, and upcoming events to look out for. Have energy news to share? Send us your news links so we can share...
Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades- NREL Advances New Method
An NREL scientist holds small cubes of the PECAN resin. Photo by Werner Slocum, NREL Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Laboratory (NREL) have built a prototype 9-meter wind turbine blade to demonstrate the manufacturability of a...