Grid Modernization News

Mar 24, 2024, 18:00 by Tiffany Plate

NREL researchers contributed to a thorough analysis and action plan to guide the United States on the most effective ways to bring Atlantic offshore wind energy to communities on the East Coast.

Mar 24, 2024, 18:00 by Sara Havig

The Roll-to-Roll Consortium aims to accelerate domestic manufacturing and reduce the cost of durable, high-performance systems.

Mar 24, 2024, 18:00 by Tara McMurtry

Wind energy's growth must be planned with careful consideration of atmospheric physics, turbine design, and grid resilience, as well as environmental and social impacts.

Mar 20, 2024, 18:00 by Carol Laurie

The new, easy-to-use Wind Resource Database offers public access to more than a petabyte of detailed wind resource data in the United States and other countries.

Mar 20, 2024, 11:25 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Newly launched Renewable Energy Discovery Island could make it easy to teach, explore, and learn about clean energy (especially water power).

Mar 17, 2024, 18:00 by Julia Medeiros Coad

The San Diego Association of Governments has ambitious plans to make local progress toward California's goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.

Mar 17, 2024, 18:00 by Tiffany Plate

As a child immersed in the science of NASA, Amy Robertson was bound to end up an engineer—an aerospace engineer, to be exact. At NREL, she has traded in her love of the cosmos for the delightfully challenging dynamics of floating offshore wind energy.

Mar 12, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory explores investment opportunities in hydropower.

Mar 12, 2024, 18:00 by Corbett Haase

Fossil Ridge High School emerged victorious in the 2024 Colorado High School Science Bowl, continuing its winning streak for the fourth year in a row by narrowly besting second-place finisher Stargate Charter High School.

Mar 7, 2024, 17:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Alec Schnabel is working to advance one especially powerful part of marine energy technologies: their electronic guts.

Mar 6, 2024, 17:00 by Tim Meehan

A new approach to grid planning could make it possible to power your home with the nation's best and lowest-cost wind and solar energy, no matter where you live.

Mar 6, 2024, 17:00 by Carol Laurie

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has launched the new National Distributed Wind Network and complementary Distributed Wind Energy Resource Hub.

Mar 6, 2024, 17:00 by Justin Rickard

As a polymer scientist and the chief technology officer of the NREL-led BOTTLE consortium, Knauer is responsible for helping solve one of the world's greatest challenges--plastic pollution.

Mar 6, 2024, 17:00 by Sara Fall and Jarett Zuboy

Historically, photovoltaic (PV) modules have demonstrated high reliability, making them a dependable and growing part of global decarbonization efforts.

Mar 6, 2024, 17:00 by Connor O'Neil

An important consideration for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft is where they will charge and whether the existing power grid infrastructure can accommodate this demand.

Mar 4, 2024, 17:00 by Anna Squires

Combined, two first-in-the-world products—NREL's ALTRIOS rail optimization software and Parallel Systems' autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles—aim to help shift a portion of the freight currently carried by on-road trucks to rail, catalyzing decarbonization across the whole transportation sector.

Mar 3, 2024, 17:00 by Emily Mercer

New NREL research is providing first-of-its-kind modeling to help curb the current shortage of distribution transformers and ensure a reliable and resilient power grid.

Mar 3, 2024, 17:00 by Ryan Horns

Over the past year, NREL and industry partner Nextracker teamed up to advance the reliability of photovoltaic (PV) tracker technologies during severe weather events.

Feb 29, 2024, 17:00 by Brooke Van Zandt

When the third cohort of Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project communities was announced in 2023, the inclusion of Molokai, Hawaii, caught the eye of Bri Gabel, a sustainability coordinator for the City and Borough of Sitka, Alaska.

Feb 29, 2024, 17:00 by Kelly MacGregor

Forty teams from 37 collegiate institutions are advancing to the final stage of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2024 Design Challenge based on their cutting-edge, zero-energy building designs.