News PPL finalizes award for up to $72 million in federal funding from U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy DemonstrationsPPL Corporation announced today it has executed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations for an award up to $72 million to help fund a groundbreaking carbon dioxide capture research and development project. UK Pigman College of Engineering recommends the formation of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA)In a changemaking move toward advancing sustainable low-carbon energy solutions, the University of Kentucky Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering has recommended the establishment of the Institute for Decarbonization and Energy Advancement (IDEA) to the Office of the Provost. Global experts convene in Lexington for the 2024 International Conference on Energy and EnvironmentThe International Conference on Energy and Environment, now in its third year, took place from July 15 to 19, 2024, at the Lexington Griffin Gate Marriott Resort and Spa in Lexington, Kentucky. New Research to Explore Potential for Utility-Scale Carbon Capture from Natural Gas Power PlantsThe project is a joint effort between PPL Corporation subsidiaries Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, Electric Power Research Institute, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, and Bechtel engineering, construction and project management company. FEED Work Starts on a Carbon Capture Pilot at an NGCCFront-end engineering design work is under way on a project that would deploy carbon capture technology at a natural gas combined cycle power plant in Kentucky. LG&E and KU, EPRI, University of Kentucky, begin industry-leading researchGroundbreaking energy research that could lead to the first-of-its-kind deployment of carbon capture technology at a natural gas combined-cycle power plant is underway in Kentucky. UK, Nucor Steel Gallatin Partnering on Unique CO2 Capture ProjectThe University of Kentucky has received $4.9 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory to provide its carbon dioxide capture system a new challenge: to capture carbon dioxide at a low concentration from the Nucor Steel Gallatin process flue gas stream. LG&E and KU supporting Kentucky’s Hydrogen Hub effortsLouisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company have joined the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Hydrogen Hub initiative to make hydrogen a low-carbon solution for the future. Patent Palooza! Celebrates UK InnovatorsThe University of Kentucky’s Office of Technology Commercialization recognized and celebrated UK innovators at its Patent Palooza! event November 9. UK researchers working to improve tech to remove CO2 from atmosphereResearchers at UK’s Center for Applied Energy Research are partnering with Vanderbilt University, LG&E and KU, and other institutions to improve technology to capture carbon directly from the atmosphere. UK researchers working to significantly reduce the cost of capturing air pollution from plantsWith the development of a novel acoustic-assisted process for capturing carbon dioxide, a team of researchers is hoping to reduce carbon emissions for coal-fired power plants and other industrial facilities. CAER Spin-off Becoming a Kentucky High-tech Success StoryLippert, Landon and CAER's Kunlei Liu are co-founders of Lexington-based PowerTech Water, a start-up company that has developed advanced carbon electrode technologies to deliver clean water for nonenergy production field use in a sustainable manner at a lower cost and to solve some of the challenges related to the water-energy-food nexus. UK's Kunlei Liu Named Fellow of the National Academy of InventorsKunlei Liu, associate director for research at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research and associate professor in the UK College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.