Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Construction - $75M R&D building will encourage ways to boost country's power grid
This early conceptual image is expected to be updated after PNNL brings on a designer this spring. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland will be the site of a new $75 million research and development facility where scientists will work to improve storage technologies for the national energy grid. The project is called the Grid Storage Launchpad.