The accomplishments of NETL’s Richard Dennis to advance the development of high-efficiency turbines for low-cost power generation were recognized at Turbo Expo 2022, a conference held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for world leaders in the fields of turbomachinery and propulsion engineering.

NETL Director Brian Anderson highlighted new job opportunities as the U.S. transitions to a clean energy power sector and economy during the National Association of State Energy Officials’ (NASEO) 2022 Mid-Atlantic regional meeting in Charleston, West Virginia June 29.

The June 2022 edition of the RWFI E-Note Monthly, NETL’s Regional Workforce Initiative (RWFI) newsletter, is now available and includes details on a range of grant funding and training opportunities.

NETL is supporting a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to launch and host the 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum September 21-23 in Pittsburgh.

Working as part of a three-year cooperative agreement with DOE-NETL, researchers have demonstrated that algae grown using carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by a fossil energy power plant can be processed into a nutrient-rich supplement for chicken feed to produce quality eggs and poultry products. 

A portable and economic process for quickly extracting lithium from natural brines and produced water from oil and gas extraction has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s NETL and is attracting commercialization attention from private industry as the world transitions to electric vehicles and develops renewable energy generators that store surplus electricity in batteries for future use.

NETL’s Natalie Pekney led a career development panel featuring women from across the U.S. Department of Energy during a virtual segment of the 2022 GirlCon, held Friday, June 17. Pekney joined Kate Klise and Christine Downs from Sandia National Laboratory, Charu Varadharajan from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Chris Morency from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as they discussed their day-to-day routines and offered words of wisdom for working for the federal government.

The Utah FORGE research team, with NETL support and oversight, recently surpassed a significant milestone in its ongoing work to develop an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) that will flow hot water naturally from a subsurface depth of more than 10,000 feet and bring it to the surface.

The June 2022 edition of the SSAE Newsletter provides updates about recent research initiatives undertaken within NETL’s Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering (SSAE) directorate. Click here to access this latest edition and learn about activities that SSAE is leading to gain insights into new energy concepts, support the analysis of energy system interactions and advance its capabilities. Highlights in this edition include:

NETL will host a webinar from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 22, to discuss research and development opportunities available within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s University Training and Research (UTR) Program.