Publications
Find NREL publications on key areas of technology deployment. You can also search the NREL Publications Database for additional resources.
Download publications on NREL's work with:
Cities and Communities
Federal Agencies
- Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Borders and Maritime Security Division: Renewable Energy Research Roadmap
- Federal and State Structures to Support Financing Utility-Scale Solar Projects and the Business Models Designed to Utilize Them
- Renewable Energy Assessment for the Bureau of Reclamation
- Strategic Energy Management Plan: General Services Administration, Region 10, Northwest/Arctic Region
Islands
- Integrating Renewable Energy into the Transmission and Distribution System of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative Existing Building Energy Efficiency Analysis
- Oahu Wind Integration and Transmission Study: A Summary Report
- USVI Energy Road Map: Charting the Course to a Clean Energy Future
- U.S. Virgin Islands Energy Road Map: Analysis
- U.S. Virgin Islands Petroleum Price-Spike Preparation
- U.S. Virgin Islands Transportation Petroleum Reduction Plan
- Waste-to-Energy Evaluation: U.S. Virgin Islands
- Wind Power Opportunities in St. Thomas, USVI: A Site-Specific Analysis
Military Installations and Research Campuses
- A Broad Overview of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Opportunities for Department of Defense Installations
- Valuing Energy Security: Customer Damage Function Methodology and Case Studies at DoD Installations
- Extremely Low-Energy Design for Army Buildings: Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facility
- NREL Furthers U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar's Move Toward Net Zero Energy
States
Tribes
- Advancing Next-Generation Energy in Indian Country: START Program Overview
- Empowering Indian Country to Energize Future Generations: DOE Office of Indian Energy Fact Sheet
- Renewable Energy Development in Indian Country: A Handbook for Tribes
- Tribal Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Development on Tribal Lands: Tribal Energy Program Brochure
Find publications on technologies, energy efficiency, and policy:
Biomass
Buildings
- Advanced Energy Design Guides Slash Energy Use in Schools and Retail Buildings by 50%
- Design and Evaluation of a Net Zero Energy Low-Income Residential Housing Development in Lafayette, Colorado
- Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative Existing Building Energy Efficiency Analysis
- NREL Recommends Ways to Cut Building Energy Costs in Half
Fuels and Vehicles
Geothermal
Policy Analysis
- A Policymaker's Guide to Feed-in Tariff Policy Design
- Clean Energy Policy Analyses: Analysis of the Status and Impact of Clean Energy Policies at the Local Level
- Southeast Regional Clean Energy Policy Analysis
- State and Local Clean Energy Policy Primer: Getting from Here to Clean Electricity with Policy
Solar
- A Guide to Community Shared Solar
- Federal and State Structures to Support Financing Utility-Scale Solar Projects and the Business Models Designed to Utilize Them
- Funding Solar Projects at Federal Agencies: Mechanisms and Selection Criteria
- The Impact of Financial Structure on the Cost of Solar Energy
Utilities
- Geothermal Power and Interconnection: The Economics of Getting to Market
- Identifying Cost-Effective Residential Energy Efficiency Opportunities for the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative
- Integrating Renewable Energy into the Transmission and Distribution System of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- NREL Confirms Large Potential for Grid Integration of Wind, Solar Power
Wind
- NREL Confirms Large Potential for Grid Integration of Wind, Solar Power
- NREL's Wind Powering America Team Helps Indiana Develop Wind Resources
- Variance Analysis of Wind and Natural Gas Generation under Different Market Structures: Some Observations
- Wind Powering America's Wind for Schools Project: Summary Report
