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An Alaskan Village's Journey Back to the Future
Athabascan Indians living in the remote Alaskan village of Igiugig are building an energy-sustainable community despite years of oil field development.Full story -
News Release: Next Decade Decisive for PV Growth on the Path to 2050
Global experts on solar power strongly urge a commitment to the continued growth of photovoltaic manufacturing and deployment to power the planet, arguing that lowballing projections for PV growth while waiting for a consensus on other energy pathways or the emergence of technological last-minute miracles "is no longer an option."Full story -
LIBRA Model Guides Development of Sustainable Battery Supply Chain
LIBRA uses powerful system dynamics modeling to analyze the supply chain and evaluate the economic viability of Li-ion battery manufacturing, reuse, and recycling.Full story -
New Consortium Advances Technologies That Use Renewable Electricity To Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel
NREL scientist and principal investigator for the CO₂ Reduction and Upgrading for e-Fuels Consortium (CO₂RUe) Michael Resch leads a team of researchers working to unlock the potential of carbon dioxide electrolyzers and other technologies that enable e-fuels.Full story -
Powering Coastal Cities With Ocean Waves: New Marine Energy Prize Investigates Novel Materials To Capture and Convert Wave Energy
The Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize encourages participants within and beyond the marine energy industry to support the development of wave energy technologies that could help power the nation.Full story -
Combined 'SuperLab' Demonstrates Unique Hybrid Power Plant
For a 60-minute period in January 2023, a power plant like no other existed in the U.S. Mountain West.Full story -
Kestrel Supercomputer Arrives at NREL
The first delivery of NREL's latest high-performance computing (HPC) system, Kestrel, arrived Monday. The operations teams are working hard so Kestrel's first phase can undergo testing and be ready for research computing this summer.Full story -
FLOWIN Forward: Nine Teams Advance to Phase Two of the First Wind Energy Prize
The first NREL-administered, three-phase floating offshore wind energy prize has named nine Phase One winners, kicking off Phase Two.Full story -
Advanced Computing Powers 300-Plus Clean Energy Projects
In Fiscal Year 2022, NREL played a critical role in computing advancements for 300-plus clean energy research projects through high-performance computing (HPC), efficient data center operation, and state-of-the-art data visualization.Full story -
Southeast Asia Wind Resource Data Set Released Through the Renewable Energy Data Explorer
Mar 26, 2023, 18:00 by Wind speed data over nine years at a 3-km resolution was produced by GANs and used in the Southeast Asia Wind Resource Data Set. Image by Billy Roberts, NRELThe USAID-NREL partnership's Advanced Energy Partnership for Asia released a high-fidelity wind data set for Southeast Asia through the Renewable Energy Data Explorer.Full story -
Michael Martin Receives American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow Designation
Michael Martin, staff scientist in NREL's Computational Science Center, was recently named an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow. This recognition is for his contributions to science, public policy, and education as a member of the ASME.Full story -
Turning Mining Waste Into a Sustainable Concrete Replacement
NREL is leading a three-year $4.38 million collaborative project from the U.S. Department of Energy's Fiscal Year 2022 Office of Fossil Energy Carbon Management Technology Commercialization Fund to turn mining waste materials into a more sustainable concrete replacement.Full story -
Documentary Short Illustrates Impact of Waves to Water Prize
In honor of World Water Day, take a closer look at the NREL-administered prize charting a new course for wave-powered desalination.Full story -
Researchers Determine Simplified Way To Make Perovskite Solar Cells by Coating Multiple Layers at Once
A concept developed at NREL simplifies the process to manufacture perovskite solar cells, which could accelerate the path toward commercialization of the technology.Full story -
Designing the Future of Wave Energy
NREL's marine energy team recently gave assistance to four different projects that are improving four different wave energy converter designs.Full story -
How To Be a 'Good Ancestor'
NREL's Tessa Greco presented twice at New Zealand's inaugural clean energy conference, where technology experts and government and community leaders strategized how to reach global clean energy goals.Full story -
NREL Regional Analysis Can Help Accelerate Production and Delivery of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
When Chemical Engineer Arpit Bhatt and his NREL colleagues observed a gap in knowledge of how regional variables work together to affect sustainable aviation fuel production and delivery for individual airports across the country, they got to work—using Chicago O'Hare International Airport as a case study.Full story -
Beneath the Surface: From Holes to Coal to Tides: Patrick O'Byrne's Journey to Clean Energy
Patrick O'Byrne is helping NREL hone tidal energy technologies—by working through complex underwater engineering challenges as a water power intern.Full story -
Clean Energy Solutions Center Returns To Support Clean Energy Policy Development Worldwide
After a short period of dormancy, the Clean Energy Solutions Center has revitalized its programming and recommitted to its three pillars of activities: ask-an-expert services, trainings and peer-to-peer learning, and management of a comprehensive resource library.Full story -
NREL Teams With Australia's Fortescue Future Industries on a Colorado Innovation Center
It is about 10,000 miles between the main NREL campus and Western Australia. But that distance shrank considerably when Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) announced a partnership with NREL for a U.S.-based FFI Worldwide Green Hydrogen research and development center in Colorado.Full story
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Last Updated Jan. 9, 2025