Technology

Dandelion will operate as a standalone company outside of Google's parent company Alphabet, offering geothermal heating and cooling to residential customers. 

The PSC ordered Mississippi Power to file a settlement for the facility to run as a natural gas plant, marking an end to the ambitious coal gasification project.   

State lawmakers failed to included an extension of the rooftop solar tax credit in a budget sent to the full legislature this week.

A DHS and FBI joint report last week said nuclear reactors were among the targets of a hacking campaign that dated back to May.

The House bill advanced this week would resist some of the deepest cuts Trump proposed at DOE, but would still slash renewables and efficiency funding by half and eliminate ARPA-E.

The Energy Futures Initiative will focus on "objective, fact-based" analysis of sector trends, former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said last week. 

The agency is looking for energy storage projects that can help advance the state's goal of obtaining 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

The thermal storage project aims to provide 1 MW of peak load reduction to avoid the need for a new undersea transmission line.

Battery-battery and battery-capacitor combinations are expected to dominate the hybrid market for the next decade. 

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says the cost of Georgia Power's nuclear plant expansion will rise by $9 billion by the time the project is completed. 

The program supports R&D in hardware technology, software technology and application development, with the goal of delivering at least one exascale-capable system by 2021.

A congressionally mandated study found the Department of Energy's APRA-E secured $1.25 billion in private funding and 74 patents so far. 

The researchers published a study that says their experimental technology made it possible for a lithium ion battery to retain 80% of its initial capacity after 400 charging cycles.

Cybersecurity firm Dragos says Russian hackers developed the malware tied to a 2015 attack that caused widespread blackouts in Ukraine, and it could be used to target the U.S. grid.

A prototype using SaltX’s EnerStore technology is scheduled to be built later this year with the aim of securing a commercial pilot plant in 2018.

As President Trump pulls the United States out of the Paris climate accord, China has signaled it is willing to take a leading global role.

Southern subsidiary Mississippi Power says the plant will be operational by the end of June, but construction on gasifiers will need to continue for 18 to 24 months.

The project is part of the Department of Energy’s Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV program. 

The company says the unit can be applied to remote villages that are not connected to the grid, and as a back-up source of power for small commercial and industrial facilities.