Grid Modernization News

Jan 16, 2023, 17:00 by User Not Found

Researchers at NREL examined the benefits and trade-offs of current and emerging technologies for recycling certain types of plastics to determine the most appropriate options.

Jan 12, 2023, 14:59 by Molly Rettig

NREL's Cold Climate Housing Research Center is working with the Native Village of Unalakleet, a small community sprawled on Alaska's northwest coast, to create a new model of housing—an affordable, energy-efficient, adaptable house that meets the myriad challenges facing rural Alaska.

Jan 10, 2023, 17:00 by Kelly MacGregor

Know an influential U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Alum or Faculty Advisor who has impacted the clean energy economy? Nominate them for the Solar Decathlon Richard King Award by Feb. 1, 2023!

Jan 9, 2023, 17:00 by Ryan Horns

NREL Materials Scientists Mou Paul and Abhishek Roy won the 2023 Polymer Science and Engineering (PMSE) Cooperative Research Award for their work in global water sustainability.

Jan 8, 2023, 17:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Marine energy has huge potential to deliver clean, renewable energy to communities around the world. But these budding technologies are still up and coming and need people—like students, researchers, industry partners, and more—to help them succeed.

Jan 5, 2023, 20:11 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

The NREL water power team tallied up the most popular events, news stories, and videos published over the last year.

Dec 27, 2022, 17:00 by Natasha Nguyen

Industries transitioning to renewable energy need the ability to analyze economic performance of various hydrogen production pathways. H2A-Lite can help.

Dec 21, 2022, 17:00 by User Not Found

A new approach to manufacturing perovskite solar cells has addressed previous problems and yielded devices with high efficiency and excellent stability, researchers at NREL report in the new issue of the journal Science.

Dec 20, 2022, 17:00 by Erik F. Ringle

Using Machine Learning, the NREL-Led Team Discovered Variants of "Plastic-Eating" Enzymes Adapted To Deconstructing all Varieties of PET--Even Durable Crystalline Varieties

Dec 14, 2022, 17:00 by Erik F. Ringle

Over his 40-plus-year career, Michael E. Himmel has unraveled the complexities of using enzymes to deconstruct lignocellulosic biomass for climate-friendly fuels.

Dec 14, 2022, 17:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

How do we balance both human and environmental needs? This is NREL’s Kerry Stout Grantham’s big question as she helps design the blueprint for coastal, island and remote communities to adopt marine energy.

Dec 14, 2022, 17:00 by Carol Laurie

NREL has announced plans to award $2.9 million to 11 manufacturers of small- and medium-scale wind turbine technology through CIP. These awards help manufacturers of wind turbines less than 1 megawatt in capacity, as well as other distributed wind technology.

Dec 12, 2022, 17:00 by Connor O'Neil

The electrical grid is a symphony with each component playing its own tune. NREL researchers have taken such musical principles to heart in designing tools to test grid stability, and they had some fun on the way.

Dec 12, 2022, 17:00 by User Not Found

Energy Execs provides industry and community leaders an opportunity to learn about the latest advanced energy technologies, which will help guide their organizations in future energy-related decisions and planning.

Dec 12, 2022, 17:00 by Ryan Horns

The 2022–2023 JUMP into STEM Challenge Winners have been announced, featuring six teams of college students with diverse backgrounds and academic majors exploring solutions towards an equitable clean energy future through building science.

Dec 11, 2022, 17:00 by User Not Found

NREL will begin work early next year on a series of additions and improvements to two of its campuses made possible by $150 million in funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Dec 7, 2022, 17:00 by User Not Found

The Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator's (CECA's) first cohort of solution providers—Blue Ridge Networks, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and Xage—recently began technical assessment of their technologies that offer strong authentication solutions for distributed energy resources.

Dec 7, 2022, 17:00 by Madeline Geocaris and Samantha Wagstrom

NREL has released the 2022 Standard Scenarios, a suite of forward-looking scenarios of the U.S. electricity sector.

Dec 5, 2022, 17:00 by Julia Thomas

Transit agencies across the country conduct detailed passenger studies and surveys to better understand transit passenger trends. The data from many of these studies are now housed in the transit passenger data section of NREL's Transportation Secure Data Center.

Dec 5, 2022, 17:00 by Madeline Geocaris and Andrea Wuorenmaa

Analysts at the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis and National Renewable Energy Laboratory studied lab-to-market pathways for clean energy technologies.