Grid Modernization News

Oct 21, 2024, 18:00 by Anton Molodetskiy

During the July 2024 Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County, California, NREL and the U.S. Forest Service successfully piloted several renewable energy solutions that put their sustainable firefighting operations ideas into practice.

Oct 21, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL team researches the important role of corporate investments in clean energy development through a new partnership.

Oct 21, 2024, 18:00 by Lindsey McGuirk

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a blueprint to aggressively reduce buildings sector greenhouse gas emissions while delivering equity, affordability, and resilience benefits to communities.

Oct 16, 2024, 18:00 by Emily Mousel

From Sept. 21 to 27, groups of scientists and engineers from around the globe gathered at NREL's Solar Radiation Research Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, for the 24th NREL Pyrheliometer Comparisons.

Oct 15, 2024, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

NREL's energy simulator can mimic the grids of the future—and now, this massive, virtual and real-world research platform can simulate water power, too.

Oct 15, 2024, 18:00 by Marsha Sanchez

After Hurricane Fiona in October 2022, President Biden visited Puerto Rico and pledged to leverage the technical support of federal agencies to improve the archipelago's electric grid.

Oct 14, 2024, 18:00 by Marsha Sanchez

The U.S. Department of Energy provided students with access to the Kestrel supercomputer, a powerful tool hosted by NREL to advance research in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Oct 14, 2024, 18:00 by User Not Found

Case studies detail geothermal heat pump installations in climate zones across the United States with varying system types, sizes, and end uses.

Oct 13, 2024, 18:00 by Erik Ringle

This summer, NREL postdocs and early-career staff participated in multiple events around the globe, including in Italy, Indonesia, Singapore, and stateside in Golden, Colorado.

Oct 10, 2024, 18:00 by Yonghong Chen

Chief Scientist Yonghong Chen shares how her two decades of experience working at an independent system operator is now informing her philosophy on industry collaboration at NREL.

Oct 9, 2024, 18:00 by Tara McMurtry

Kelly Huang, a previous National Renewable Energy Laboratory Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Program intern, landed a career in academics.

Oct 9, 2024, 18:00 by Tim Meehan

How do researchers examine the relationships between various factors within a given system, how they could change, and how those changes ultimately lead to different behaviors in the system over longer periods of time? The answers to those questions may lie within a sophisticated modeling method known as system dynamics.

Oct 7, 2024, 18:00 by Erik Ringle

October 8 (10.08) is national hydrogen and fuel cell day—a nod to the atomic weight of the most abundant element in the universe: 1.008.

Oct 6, 2024, 18:00 by Michael Matz

NREL has developed a first-of-its-kind tool that enables hydropower operators and developers to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with building and operating closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facilities.

Oct 6, 2024, 18:00 by Brooke Van Zandt

Whether it's a sweltering summer or a frigid winter, digging just a few feet into the earth provides relief from the temperatures above.

Oct 3, 2024, 18:00 by Julia Medeiros Coad

In the fall of 2024, Reading, Pennsylvania, will break ground on solar installations that will save the city $300,000 a year in energy bills. But it was a long journey to get to this point.

Oct 3, 2024, 15:38 by Emily Mercer

The release of the National Transmission Planning Study shifts the energy transition into high gear.

Oct 2, 2024, 18:00 by Anya Breitenbach

The Marine and Hydrokinetic Toolkit (MHKiT) helps researchers and developers harness marine renewable energy by providing standardized tools for data processing and performance evaluation.

Sep 30, 2024, 18:00 by Sara Fall

Students from 38 schools are entering an ever-widening community of competitors and alumni involved in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition.

Sep 29, 2024, 18:00 by Anna Squires

Researchers from NREL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory broke new ground by surveying the national state of smart charge management strategies.