Grid Modernization News

Jul 17, 2024, 18:00 by Jeffrey Wolf

When NREL Senior Mechanical Engineer Eric Kozubal first learned about the LiquidCool's technology, he was eager to get to work on it through the first IN² cohort.

Jul 16, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity announced nine Phase 1 Utility/Data Challenge track winning teams of the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2.

Jul 16, 2024, 18:00 by Justin Daugherty

Advanced computing plays a pivotal role in accelerating clean energy research at NREL, whether researchers need simulations of traffic systems, models of biomass conversion, or optimization of renewable energy implementation.

Jul 16, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

Deriving inspiration from the natural process of photosynthesis, NREL researchers developed a mixed-dimensionality (2D/1D/2D) trilayer of semiconductors to enable exciton dissociation.

Jul 15, 2024, 18:00 by Ernie Tucker

Sreekant Narumanchi, who leads NREL's Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines group, was chosen as one of NREL's Distinguished Researchers in 2024.

Jul 14, 2024, 18:00 by Julia Thomas

Each year, awards are presented to individuals from Department of Energy national laboratories and other partner organizations for their contributions to overall program efforts and in recognition of their research, development, demonstration, and deployment achievements in specific areas.

Jul 14, 2024, 18:00 by Tim Meehan

The year 2023, according to NREL analyst David Feldman, was a year of historic proportions in the solar power industry.

Jul 10, 2024, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks

Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at NREL.

Jul 10, 2024, 18:00 by Justin Rickard

Since 2019, NREL senior scientist Cara Lubner and her team have made considerable progress toward mapping the energy landscape of an enzymatic reaction.

Jul 1, 2024, 18:00 by Brittany Enos

The new Hydropower Testing Network connects hydropower technology developers with testing capability providers that can help developers advance their technologies toward commercialization.

Jul 1, 2024, 18:00 by Jeffrey Wolf

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).

Jun 30, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

A research effort led by scientists at NREL has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic devices.

Jun 30, 2024, 18:00 by Justin Rickard

New research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy examines degradation mechanisms of PSCs under the unfiltered sunlight of the outdoors in comparison with widely used light-emitting diodes.

Jun 27, 2024, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks and Lindsey McGuirk

Bitter cold temperatures. Unrelenting heat. Power outages that last for weeks. NREL researchers are planning for extreme weather by calculating what it will take to make the situation survivable.

Jun 27, 2024, 18:00 by Tiffany Plate

With a new resource developed by NREL, hydropower organizations can better prepare for worker turnover and limit knowledge loss along the way.

Jun 26, 2024, 18:00 by Moriah Petty

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected two new projects to benefit from a premier grid control evaluation capability at NREL.

Jun 26, 2024, 18:00 by Anton Molodetskiy

Each year over 50% of all NREL subcontracts, approximately $60–$75 million, are awarded to small businesses.

Jun 25, 2024, 18:00 by Julia Medeiros Coad

Seeking ways to build EV charging capacity, Sedona, Arizona participated in a peer-learning cohort through the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program focused on planning and funding strategies for EV charging infrastructure deployment.

Jun 25, 2024, 18:00 by Julia Medeiros Coad

The number of residential solar photovoltaics installations continues to increase across the United States. But that increase is slower for low-income households, who made up 23% of solar adopters as of 2022.

Jun 25, 2024, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks

Approximately 70 researchers from 14 countries gathered in California earlier this month to discuss the progress toward deploying multiple terawatts of solar power around the globe to transition to a sustainable energy system.