Global Partner Programs

NREL leads global initiatives and partnerships that advance affordable, reliable, and secure energy systems—contributing to international energy security, reliability, and affordability goals.

NREL conducts its international programs in support of many U.S. agencies, companies, and international sponsors.

The Global Power System Transformation Consortium

NREL manages the secretariat responsibilities for the Global Power System Transformation Consortium. The Consortium brings together key power system operators, research and educational institutions, governments, businesses, and stakeholders from around the world to accelerate adoption of advanced energy technologies by providing coordinated and holistic end-to-end support and knowledge infusion to power system operators across five pillars of focus: system operator research and peer learning, system operator technical support, workforce development, localized technology adoption support, and open-source data and tools.

Global Alliance for People and Planet Battery Energy Storage System Consortium

The Global Alliance for People and Planet, through the Battery Energy Storage System Consortium, is working with partner governments worldwide to advance Battery Energy Storage System pilot projects and develop enabling environments for investment. NREL is providing technical, analytical, and advisory support, with a focus on Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Uruguay, and Honduras. The initial technical assistance supports Battery Energy Storage System procurement, regulatory and policy enhancements, and production cost modeling in NREL's Sienna platform to assess the techno-economic value of energy storage investments.

Clean Energy Ministerial Programs

NREL supports the Clean Energy Ministerial, a high-level global forum focused on advancing policies and programs that that drive economic growth through the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies. The forum facilitates knowledge sharing, highlights best practices, and fosters international collaboration to strengthen energy security and innovation.

Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future

Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy (NICE) Future holistically explores the role of nuclear energy in advanced energy systems. It helps partners understand diverse solutions that can support energy affordability, reliability, and security.

Solutions Center

The Solutions Center helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of renewable and other advanced energy technologies. The Solutions Center offers no-cost expert policy and finance technical assistance; web-based trainings; and energy policy and finance reports, data, and tools to countries in all regions. The Solutions Center is co-led and co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through support from the U.S. Department of State, and NREL serves as the operating agent.

U.S. Government-Led Programs

Multi-Laboratory Collaborations for Advanced Global Energy Systems

NREL is part of a multi-national laboratory team that supports countries in achieving their energy goals. This work involves deep technical collaboration to accelerate country-specific objectives while ensuring energy security and resilience. Much of this work takes the form of developing energy roadmaps, implementing specific measures, and piloting new projects. Learn more about Multi-Laboratory Collaborations for Advanced Global Energy Systems.

U.S. Department of Energy Programs

NREL partners with various DOE programs and the Office of International Affairs to support cooperation with international partners to accelerate progress toward DOE science and technology and energy market goals through the above programs and on a bilateral basis with countries.

Collaboration With State Department and Other U.S. Agencies

Work with the Department of State includes partnering with several offices in the State Department to scale up energy analysis and deployment to support economic and energy security goals with countries in all regions of the world including cooperation on many of the programs described above. Additional U.S. partners include the Departments of Agriculture, Treasury, and Commerce; Environmental Protection Agency; Trade and Development Agency; Millennium Challenge Corp.; the Development Finance Corporation, and Export-Import Bank, among others.

Other International Energy Collaborative Programs

International partners include government agencies and research institutes around the world, along with United Nations agencies, the World Bank and regional development banks, various foundations, the International Renewable Energy Agency, International Energy Agency, and many others.

International Energy Agency

NREL provides technical support for International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programs in the areas of biomass, buildings, solar, wind, hydrogen, geothermal, vehicles, and smart grids and provides cross-cutting analysis and policy support for International Energy Agency assessment and country programs. We have also collaborated with the International Energy Agency Gas and Oil Technology Collaboration Programme to organize events at the intersection of emerging technologies and the oil and gas industries.