Department of Energy
The Department of Energy has released its long-awaited National Transmission Planning Study. The 800-plus-page document provides a series of scenarios for the grid to reach a 90% or greater reduction in carbon emissions by 2035 (from 2005 levels).
Reuters
Six companies have been awarded contracts to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel in commercial volumes. The contracts seek to shore up the domestic supply of uranium fuel to be used in advanced nuclear reactors.
Natron Energy announced plans to scale up a sodium-ion battery factory in North Carolina scaling up its production by 40 times. Key materials in sodium-ion batteries can be sourced domestically making it competitive to lithium-ion batteries.
Renewable Energy World
The Department of Energy announced the funding with a focus on training clean energy jobs that do not require a four-year degree. The funding will expand the existing Industrial Assessment Centers network to include trade schools.
MSN
Description: Governors of 22 states and two U.S. territories want to get 1 million people to complete climate friendly and low-carbon energy apprenticeships by 2035. The Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce will set up funding and partnerships to mitigate climate change.
CISA
CISA, FBI, NSA and other international partners have released an advisory concerning Iranian backed cyber-attacks targeting critical infrastructure. The alert notes that cyber actors are targeting organizations using brute force tactics.
Utility Drive
The Department of Energy announced $43.2 million to 21 projects that will develop technologies that advance industrial decarbonization. Sixteen projects will receive $38 million targeting cross-sector technologies, and an additional $5.2 million would support the five remaining projects.
The Hill
The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion into four transmission projects to improve grid reliability and energy access. The projects will enable 7,100 MW of new electric power capacity in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas connecting the isolated power grid to the southeastern U.S. for the first time.
Data Center Dynamics
The PJM Interconnection has proposed to expedite shovel-ready projects to the grid. The grid operator is considering three avenues for changes and will provide stakeholders with a formal proposal before filing it with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
KSNT
Kansas has secured $17 million to strengthen the state's energy grid. $12 million will come from the Department of Energy's Grid Resilience Grant Program with the other $5.8 million coming from the Kansas Infrastructure Hub and Build Kansas Fund.