The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is recognizing outstanding entrepreneurs and small businesses during National Small Businesses Week, April 30 – May 6. To mark the occasion, NETL’s Small Business Program and the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization will host Opportunity Day at the Lab’s Morgantown campus May 3.

NETL Director Brian Anderson will serve on a panel to discuss the use of Appalachia’s abundant, low-cost energy resources to enable and sustain a regional clean hydrogen hub Tuesday, May 2, during the West Virginia Manufacturing Energy Growth (MEG) Summit at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling.

A team of NETL researchers led by environmental sustainability expert Mark McKoy participated in the Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) conference April 25–27 at the University of Houston in Texas. McKoy and a team of experts addressed the Laboratory’s key research on point source carbon capture, CO2 removal, CO2 conversion into products, reliable CO2 storage, blue hydrogen production, and critical mineral production from industrial and mining waste.

To get the word out regarding challenges and opportunities to optimize the effects of efforts with other national labs, NETL hosted fellows of the prestigious Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leaders Program (OSELP) April 24-25 for site visits at the Lab’s Morgantown and Pittsburgh campuses.

The Appalachian region is well suited to be one of the nation’s clean energy hydrogen hubs because of its natural gas resources, infrastructure, storage capacity, workforce and industrial demand, according to a recently released report conducted by NETL. NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., said the report, “Appalachian Hydrogen Infrastructure Analysis,” studied how development of a hydrogen industry in Appalachia offers a path to sustainable long-term growth.

Washington — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) issued a notice of intent (NOI) to fund a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law program that will focus on developing advanced concepts to lower the costs of producing rare earth elements and critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources.

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques, NETL researchers are exploring a way to treat water that seeps through coal combustion waste using a sorbent synthesized from fly ash, itself a coal combustion waste ─ a development with implications for improving the costs of managing future waste sites.

By embracing the twenty-first century tools and techniques of the geospatial mapping, NETL researchers are developing new means of locating orphaned oil and gas wells so they can be plugged in the interest of public health and the environment by reducing the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

Earth Day is an annual event that has been celebrated since 1970 and closely aligns with NETL’s vision to develop sustainable energy solutions and protect the environment for future generations. In celebration of Earth Day, observed tomorrow, April 22, NETL proudly announces the winners of its annual Earth Day Poster Contest.

University of New Mexico (UNM) and SensorComm Technologies Inc., with support from NETL, have developed a first-of-its-kind field-deployable technology that can accurately sense, identify and quantify the presence of natural gas as an early warning system for leakage, which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.