Carnegie Mellon’s Scott Institute for Energy Innovation has played a key role in the University Energy Institute Leadership Collaborative (UEILC) since it was launched in 2019 to serve as a unifying resource for more than 150 university energy institutes across the United States.
In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Pitt has opened the Pittsburgh Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC), a flagship federal program overseen by the U.S. Census Bureau, in the Cathedral of Learning.
Students at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University will benefit from enhanced hands-on learning opportunities with the opening of a state-of-the-art EQT Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Lab.
The University of Pittsburgh is working with longtime-partner North Carolina State University on a newly selected project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and aimed at expanding the capacity and reliability of the power grid.
Aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, and new energy demands from artificial intelligence (AI) and the electrification of transportation and other industries are shaping the future of the US power grid.
At Carnegie Mellon University, researchers are helping cities learn how to make room for too much of a good thing: renewable energy.
After decades of relative stability in U.S. electricity use, demand is skyrocketing with the proliferation of large artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, along with an increase in electrification for transportation and industrial manufacturing.
Paul Ohodnicki, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, has been named permanent director of the Center for Energy, according to an announcement by Michele V. Manuel, U. S. Steel Dean of Engineering.
Winter is no wonderland for many Appalachian homes and businesses now struggling with utility bills and facing the prospect of losing heat if ice storms or increased demand for power bring down the electric grid.
For researchers at West Virginia University, the Office of Innovation and Commercialization is where dreams come true.