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The Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform is designed to derisk, optimize, and secure current energy systems and provide insight into future energy systems that are clean, secure, resilient, reliable, and equitable.
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Flipping the Script on Traditional Wind Turbine Technologies
An extensive study on one of NREL's research wind turbines offers keys insights into the benefits and challenges of downwind operations.Full story -
Panels, Presentations, and Posters: NREL Plays Key Role at Premier Wind Energy Conference
At the TORQUE Conference in Florence, Italy, this May, NREL wind researchers took to the stage to share their impactful research and learn from others.Full story -
The Grid Can Handle More Renewable Energy, But It Needs Some Help
A new kind of grid technology, called medium-voltage silicon carbide converters, could help the U.S. grid smoothly transition to renewable energy.Full story -
NREL Project Sets Stage for Quantifying Future Energy System Cyber Risks
Researchers at NREL recently explored a model of risk evaluation to energy system upgrades in a project called Cyber100 Compass.Full story -
Second Cohort of Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator Evaluates System Visibility
Evolving cybersecurity risks to the U.S. energy sector can challenge rapidly transforming system architectures and technologies. To understand and adapt to cybersecurity threats utilities need first to understand their own environment.Full story -
News Release: NREL Researchers Highlight Opportunities for Manufacturing Perovskite Solar Panels With a Long-Term Vision
Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable.Full story -
NREL's Camp Cleantech To Empower Startups for Success
A new event from NREL, Camp Cleantech aims to give startups the tools and lessons to overcome the surprises that await them on the journey to the market.Full story -
NREL Model Fast-Tracks Hydrogen Supply Chain Infrastructure Deployment
Reducing capital and viability risks for infrastructure investment decisions will accelerate the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. NREL is helping stakeholders forecast demand and minimize infrastructure buildout costs.Full story -
Farmers, Rural Businesses To Harvest Benefits of New Project Selections
A new crop of Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) award selections will benefit farmers and small rural businesses by focusing on how to remove market barriers to distributed wind turbine deployment in agricultural settings.Full story -
IN² at 10 Years: Cohort 1 Participant Uses Liquid To Cool Computers
When NREL Senior Mechanical Engineer Eric Kozubal first learned about the LiquidCool's technology, he was eager to get to work on it through the first IN² cohort.Full story -
Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2 Names Phase 1 Data Track Winners
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity announced nine Phase 1 Utility/Data Challenge track winning teams of the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2.Full story -
NREL Researchers Collaborate To Optimize Transmission Modeling Efficiency
Advanced computing plays a pivotal role in accelerating clean energy research at NREL, whether researchers need simulations of traffic systems, models of biomass conversion, or optimization of renewable energy implementation.Full story -
Into Another Dimension: Nanoscale Trilayer Exhibits Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Semiconductor Materials
Deriving inspiration from the natural process of photosynthesis, NREL researchers developed a mixed-dimensionality (2D/1D/2D) trilayer of semiconductors to enable exciton dissociation.Full story -
Sreekant Narumanchi Travels the Intersection of Heat Transfer, Power Electronics, and Electric Motors to Electrification of Vehicles
Sreekant Narumanchi, who leads NREL's Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines group, was chosen as one of NREL's Distinguished Researchers in 2024.Full story -
Stellar Year for the Solar Market, at Home and Abroad
The year 2023, according to NREL analyst David Feldman, was a year of historic proportions in the solar power industry.Full story -
NREL Transportation Researchers Recognized for Teamwork, Leadership, and Expertise at DOE Annual Merit Review
Each year, awards are presented to individuals from Department of Energy national laboratories and other partner organizations for their contributions to overall program efforts and in recognition of their research, development, demonstration, and deployment achievements in specific areas.Full story -
NREL Research Dives Deeper Into the Mysteries of Energy Control in Electron-Bifurcating Enzymes
Since 2019, NREL senior scientist Cara Lubner and her team have made considerable progress toward mapping the energy landscape of an enzymatic reaction.Full story -
Offshore Wind Turbines Offer Path for Clean Hydrogen Production
Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at NREL.Full story -
Facilities Invited To Join New Hydropower Testing Network
The new Hydropower Testing Network connects hydropower technology developers with testing capability providers that can help developers advance their technologies toward commercialization.Full story -
GCxN Company's Feedstock Poised To Be More Economical and Versatile
Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass Founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN).Full story
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Last Updated Jan. 9, 2025