Grid Modernization News

Apr 30, 2023, 18:00 by Anna Squires

Nearly 70 years ago, the United States began construction on the interstate highway system, setting in motion an effort that has been called the greatest public works project in American history.

Apr 26, 2023, 18:00 by Ryan Horns

Wonderful memories of swimming in the local rivers of Zhejiang in eastern China led a young Yueyue Zhou toward a career in architecture and creating beautiful landscapes. But experiencing the effects of climate change firsthand and watching those rivers become polluted is what drove her to NREL.

Apr 26, 2023, 18:00 by Courtney Hausler and Moriah Petty

NREL's Alicen Kandt describes how federal agencies like the National Park Service can work with NREL and the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) to turn clean energy goals into practical applications.

Apr 26, 2023, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks

A delicate balancing act between the generation of renewable energy and the demand for that power could reduce the need for as much short-duration storage, according to a new proof-of-concept paper authored by researchers at NREL.

Apr 20, 2023, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

In celebration of Earth Day, NREL highlights its water power research areas and shares how those efforts are helping reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Apr 19, 2023, 18:00 by Connor O’Neil

Power outages are on the rise in the United States, but so are technologies that help systems recover, like distributed energy and sensors.

Apr 17, 2023, 18:00 by Mariah Cox

With support from NREL and the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office, UL Solutions has published the Outline of Investigation for a cybersecurity certification standard for distributed energy resources and inverter-based resource devices.

Apr 17, 2023, 18:00 by Anna Squires

NREL will collaborate with industry partners on four projects to plan zero-emission electric vehicle charging and hydrogen fuel infrastructure spanning more than half of the United States.

Apr 12, 2023, 18:00 by Brooke Van Zandt

Researchers at GE-GRC and NREL are studying the impact of low-level jet stream behavior along the Atlantic coast on coastal wind farm installations to find critical insights for a burgeoning U.S. wind energy economy.

Apr 12, 2023, 18:00 by Isabel McCan

The Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium hosted international partners for a study tour across Colorado and Arizona.

Apr 10, 2023, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Like a blizzard, a hacker could cut off power to millions of Americans—but not if Danish Saleem can help it. In our latest Q&A profile, Saleem explains how he is working to build security into distributed clean energy technologies to protect the country's power grid from the rising threat of cyberattacks.

Apr 9, 2023, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Athabascan Indians living in the remote Alaskan village of Igiugig are building an energy-sustainable community despite years of oil field development.

Apr 5, 2023, 18:00 by User Not Found

Global experts on solar power strongly urge a commitment to the continued growth of photovoltaic manufacturing and deployment to power the planet, arguing that lowballing projections for PV growth while waiting for a consensus on other energy pathways or the emergence of technological last-minute miracles "is no longer an option."

Apr 5, 2023, 18:00 by Rebecca Martineau

LIBRA uses powerful system dynamics modeling to analyze the supply chain and evaluate the economic viability of Li-ion battery manufacturing, reuse, and recycling.

Mar 29, 2023, 18:00 by Erik Ringle

NREL scientist and principal investigator for the CO₂ Reduction and Upgrading for e-Fuels Consortium (CO₂RUe) Michael Resch leads a team of researchers working to unlock the potential of carbon dioxide electrolyzers and other technologies that enable e-fuels.

Mar 29, 2023, 18:00 by Brittany Enos and Samantha Cuneo

The Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize encourages participants within and beyond the marine energy industry to support the development of wave energy technologies that could help power the nation.

Mar 29, 2023, 18:00 by Connor O’Neil

For a 60-minute period in January 2023, a power plant like no other existed in the U.S. Mountain West.

Mar 28, 2023, 18:00 by Justin Daugherty

The first delivery of NREL's latest high-performance computing (HPC) system, Kestrel, arrived Monday. The operations teams are working hard so Kestrel's first phase can undergo testing and be ready for research computing this summer.

Mar 28, 2023, 18:00 by Emily Mercer

The first NREL-administered, three-phase floating offshore wind energy prize has named nine Phase One winners, kicking off Phase Two.

Mar 27, 2023, 18:00 by Justin Daugherty

In Fiscal Year 2022, NREL played a critical role in computing advancements for 300-plus clean energy research projects through high-performance computing (HPC), efficient data center operation, and state-of-the-art data visualization.