Grid Modernization News

Apr 21, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

With decreasing purchase prices, charging improvements, cleaner electricity, and consumer and industry support, the future of EVs has never been brighter.

Apr 21, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

Inching forward in bumper-to-bumper traffic, drivers bemoan the years of their lives sacrificed in bad commutes.

Apr 20, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

New funding for perovskites is considered a significant step toward metal halide perovskite PV commercialization.

Apr 20, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

Global effort announced by the U.S. secretary of energy, U.K. BEIS Department secretary of state, and CEOs of power system operators and organizations from around the world focuses on research, innovation, knowledge exchange, and technical assistance to achieve net-zero-emissions power systems.

Apr 19, 2021, 18:00 by Ben Chambers

One of the three key pillars of NREL's vision for the next decade is developing a circular economy for energy materials. This critical objective focuses on reducing waste and preserving resources through the design and manufacture of materials and products with reuse, recycling, and upcycling in mind from the start.

Apr 18, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL is proud to announce the seven winners of the DESIGN Contest, the first of three contests in the Ocean Observing Prize’s DEVELOP Competition, which aims to help protect coastal communities from dangerous storms by conceiving the development of autonomous, wave-powered hurricane monitoring systems.

Apr 18, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL's Advanced Manufacturing team is applying what they have learned from 3D-printing of wind blade molds to create additively manufactured tidal turbine prototypes.

Apr 11, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

To take a bite out of transportation energy use and emissions and combat climate change, NREL is partnering with Google to develop more eco-friendly routing in Google Maps.

Apr 8, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

On April 9, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy announced 10 finalist teams that are moving forward in the American-Made Solar Prize Round 4 competition.

Apr 7, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

Two winning teams claimed top honors in the Groundbreaking Hydro Prize with their creative concepts to help support hydropower's continued trajectory of growth.

Apr 6, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

Using state-of-the-art modeling tools and sophisticated resource assessment technologies, the Wind Resource Characterization team at NREL makes available new offshore wind data sets through Wind Prospector—a geospatial tool using data from the WIND Toolkit that visualizes data, analyzes the potential for wind energy, and provides wind developers, consultants, and researchers access to updated wind data sets.

Apr 6, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

"We've put all this investment into energy technologies, and now we want to guide those innovations from the lab into the marketplace," said Shelly Curtiss, Energy-I-Corps program manager, on the program's rapid growth.

Apr 5, 2021, 18:00 by Caitlin Dorsey

For Miramar's latest energy management mission, on-the-ground champions and energy experts partnered to build a new efficient, resilient, and cost-effective data center.

Apr 4, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

Ready to dive in? The 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition is now open for applications!

Apr 1, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

In a series of three reports, NREL analysts examine options and opportunities to repair, reuse, or recycle solar photovoltaic system materials, moving toward a circular economy.

Mar 31, 2021, 18:00 by Wayne Hicks

The accumulation of dust, soot, or other particulates causes a drop in the efficiency of solar panels, which translates to a decline in the amount of power produced and lost income for their operators.

Mar 31, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

FAST.Farm, a new mid-fidelity, physics-based engineering modeling tool from NREL, can be used to predict the power performance and structural loads of wind turbines within a wind farm. An extension of OpenFAST, NREL's open-source wind turbine engineering tool, FAST.Farm addresses the dynamics of, and interaction between, each individual turbine in a wind farm.

Mar 30, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

To strengthen bulk grid stability for highly renewable grids, NREL has developed a breakthrough impedance measurement system for understanding how wind, solar, and other modern energy devices interact to affect the grid's moment-to-moment stability.

Mar 30, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL has been consulting with the National Park Service on where to install electric vehicle charging stations at select sites in California. The last of the new charging stations is expected to begin operating by the end of this year.

Mar 29, 2021, 18:00 by User Not Found

In December of 2020, Alexandra Aznar took over leading the USAID-NREL portfolio, a partnership which currently comprises a mutli-year interagency agreement that spans multiple project to assist over 40 countries around the world.