Bioenergy and Bioeconomy
Partner With NREL To Develop, Translate, and De-Risk Bioeconomy Innovations for Market Readiness

Partner With NREL To Develop, Translate, and De-Risk Bioeconomy Innovations for Market Readiness

NREL collaborates with industry, government agencies, academia, national laboratories, and nonprofits to address critical challenges in the development of biofuel, bioproduct, and polymer technologies.

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NREL's passionate workforce fuels the world-class research and development our partners demand.

Join us in a research partnership to enhance existing technologies or develop new innovations. Some of the ways we can partner together include:

Strategic public-private partnerships
University partnership programs
Programs for entrepreneurs
Technology licensing agreements.

Learn more about partnership opportunities with NREL.

Leverage NREL's Bioenergy and Bioeconomy Powerhouse for Your R&D Needs

Partners can leverage NREL facilities to test feedstocks, processes, technologies, and equipment at laboratory to pilot scales or apply data, tools, and models to analyze bioenergy research pathways and technologies.

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Using NREL's Scale-Up and Piloting Facilities To Enhance Bioenergy Technologies

Our experimental capabilities allow scaling from lab bench to pilot scale for biochemical and thermochemical technology pathways. NREL's Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility and Thermal and Catalytic Process Development Unit feature end-to-end processing.

Our facilities are undergoing renovation to provide first-of-a-kind capabilities for next-generation technology development at relevant industrial scales.

And your partnership with NREL isn't limited to bioenergy and bioeconomy R&D. Using multidisciplinary approaches, NREL deploys its deep technical expertise and capabilities to integrate and accelerate energy innovation.

Partnerships for Success

Collaboration with public and private partners allows essential resources and industry perspectives to power our research and improve the bioeconomy. Learn how NREL and its partners have worked together for technological, scientific, societal, and market impacts.

Partnerships for Success

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GCxN Company's Feedstock Poised To Be More Economical and Versatile

Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass Founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN).

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NREL Selected as Part of $1.6M in Federal Funding To Explore Potential of Geologic Hydrogen

NREL was one of 16 teams selected to research enhanced production of geologic hydrogen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program.

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On Its Journey To Make Clothing That Leaves No Trace, The North Face Taps the BOTTLE Consortium To Scale Biodegradable Polyester Alternative

BOTTLE researchers are developing novel PHA fibers for outdoor apparel that are easy to recycle and limit long-term microplastic pollution.

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NREL and Partners Receive Funding To Decipher Microbial Behavior in Bioreactors at Scale

A study will explore why promising biomanufacturing fermentation processes that excel in the lab may fail on an industrial scale.

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