U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visited NETL’s site in Morgantown, West Virginia, to tour the Lab’s cutting-edge facilities and see first-hand how the Lab’s distinguished researchers are working to unleash American energy dominance, strengthening our national security and leading the world in innovation.

NETL’s Deputy Chief Operating Officer Scott Tyner and Associate Director for Energy Efficiency and Manufacturing Joel Chaddock have been named as 2025 Oppenheimer Science & Energy Leadership Program (OSELP) fellows — a year-long program of the National Laboratory Directors' Council (NLDC) designed to develop and empower exceptional leaders within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories.

NETL Director Marianne Walck delivered key insights at the Digital Innovation Center of Excellence (DICE) 2025 Digital Engineering Conference at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), participating in a panel discussing critical and emerging technologies in the energy sector.

NETL Director Marianne Walck addressed Carnegie Mellon University during its 2025 Energy Week, highlighting how the Lab is leveraging its high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) research capabilities to accelerate energy technology discovery and development.

NETL Director Marianne Walck, Ph.D., discussed how the Lab works to tackle climate change and helps to ensure a clean energy future as part of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Distinguished Lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Sept. 25.

NETL Director Marianne Walck spoke at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting recently at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. She was invited to present as part of ACS’s Women in Energy Symposium and discussed NETL research on a variety of topics related to carbon management and sustainable resource development. Key NETL researchers also made presentations.

Richard Hammack and Colton Kohnke, NETL physical scientists with significant experience conducting subsurface electromagnetic surveys and data collection, are scheduled to appear on a panel as presenters at the International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE) Aug. 26-29 in Houston, Texas.

NETL and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management will explore ways to collaborate toward a carbon pollution-free energy future during the 2024 Low Emission Advanced Power (LEAP) Workshop Sept. 15–18, 2024. Scheduled to be held in Washington, D.C., the event will be co-located with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2024 Power Conference.

NETL will display its work with Pennsylvania State University to develop strengthened alloys for use in turbines at the 14th Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit May 22-24 in Dallas, Texas.

NETL research engineer Don Ferguson, Ph.D., will share information about the laboratory’s pressure gain combustion (PGC) research during a meeting of the Interagency Advanced Power Group (IAPG) — the premier organization coordinating the collaboration and information exchange of advanced power research and development within the U.S. government — set for May 21-23 at the Idaho National Laboratory.