Grid Modernization News

Sep 28, 2022, 18:00 by Connor O'Neil

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has now published a description of the improvised controls that saved NREL during its own outage, which could make microgrids easy and low cost where they are needed most.

Sep 28, 2022, 18:00 by Brooke Van Zandt

"Science" was a class you probably took in school, but the subject matter you studied was not the only thing you learned.

Sep 28, 2022, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

NREL's validation capabilities range from lab to field, watt to megawatt, component to system, and nanogrid to microgrid.

Sep 28, 2022, 18:00 by Jeffrey Wolf

West Gate is a program that embeds innovators at NREL and pairs them with national laboratory scientists and capabilities over a period of two years, during which they have prime access to world-class national laboratory capabilities and expertise to significantly advance the development of their clean-energy technologies.

Sep 26, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL, joined by partners at Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, released its multiyear heliostat roadmap, which identifies research and deployment gaps in heliostat technologies as well as the strategies to overcome them during the next five years.

Sep 25, 2022, 18:00 by Ryan Horns

As product managers at NREL, Nicholas Gilroy and Haiku Sky help turn complex information into a compelling journey on the web. Their work allows users to interact with data, and even download information as the story of research unfolds.

Sep 21, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

Cutting-edge semiconductor research at NREL will continue at the Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) as part of funding announced last week.

Sep 21, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

Researchers at three institutions—NREL, MIT, and Washington State University—report success in using lignin as a path toward a drop-in 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Other parts of plants are used for biofuels, but lignin has been largely overlooked because of the difficulties in breaking it down chemically and converting it into useful products.

Sep 21, 2022, 18:00 by Meghan Hughes

National Renewable Energy (NREL) Senior Research Fellow Matthew Beard accepted the prestigious Ernest Orlando (EO) Lawrence Award on Thursday at a hybrid awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C.

Sep 21, 2022, 18:00 by Erik F. Ringle

For some entrepreneurs, carbon dioxide is more than a greenhouse gas. It is an opportunity and a business case for decarbonizing fuel and chemical production.

Sep 20, 2022, 18:00 by Madeline Geocaris

New study led by the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis identifies drivers, barriers, and costs of adopting building sensors and controls systems.

Sep 18, 2022, 18:00 by Rebecca Martineau

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increasingly gains momentum, NREL is collaborating with Hyundai Motor Company to ensure EV batteries can safely and reliably go the distance.

Sep 18, 2022, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Distributed embedded energy converter technologies (or DEEC-Tecs) could eventually transform sources of everyday energy into electricity or other forms of usable energy.

Sep 14, 2022, 18:00 by Carol Laurie

The new FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize, administered by NREL, invites competitors to help drive down the costs of floating offshore wind energy by 70% by 2035.

Sep 13, 2022, 18:00 by Connor O'Neil

An NREL-led team demonstrated cellular automata on a quantum computer, teasing out the underlying nature of complexity.

Sep 13, 2022, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

As part of the Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A profile series, Avantika Singh shares why she hates waste and what she's doing to help combat it.

Sep 12, 2022, 18:00 by Courtney Hausler

Free online calculator helps quantify impacts to support resilience investments.

Sep 11, 2022, 18:00 by Ryan Horns

If every journey starts with one footstep, Nicole Taverna knew exactly where to begin: Colorado.

Sep 11, 2022, 18:00 by Ryan Horns

A collaborative team from NREL and Princeton University has resurrected a century-old microwave technique to reveal a surprising feature of well-established light-driven chemistry. The study outlines how an important class of "photoredox catalysts" operates, leading to unforeseen ways to manipulate their efficiency and selectivity.

Sep 11, 2022, 18:00 by Madeline Geocaris

A growing body of research has demonstrated that cost-effective high-renewable power systems are possible, but costs increase as systems approach 100% carbon-free electricity—what has become known as the "last 10% problem."