About Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems

Jan 7, 2019, 17:00 by User Not Found

Now in production use, the ultra-efficient Eagle high-performance computer will power scientific insights to accelerate our energy system transformation.

Jan 7, 2019, 17:00 by User Not Found

This upgrade will enable megawatt-scale research that generates nearly twice that amount of power to occur at the same time--increasing opportunities for more grid-connected technologies, including solar panels, batteries, and additional wind turbines.

Jan 7, 2019, 17:00 by User Not Found

Researchers from NREL and two other national labs have discovered an alternative catalytic fast pyrolysis approach--using fixed-bed reactors and bifunctional catalysts--that significantly improves bio-oil yields and the overall economics of the process to turn biomass into biofuels and bioproducts.

Jan 3, 2019, 17:00 by User Not Found

Former tribal energy intern follows the wind to a career at NREL.

Dec 26, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

While the United States was the first to demonstrate floating PV panels--with the first installation occurring 10 years ago on pontoons on an irrigation pond in Napa Valley, California--the idea has not received widespread national acceptance.

Dec 25, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

The wind industry is booming now that wind generation has become the cheapest source of new power in multiple U.S. markets, even without incentives. And--spoiler alert--early-stage research shows promise for driving down wind power prices even further.

Dec 20, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

New paper aids researchers in understanding defects in coalescing materials, helping to develop low-cost substrates for solar cells.

Dec 20, 2018, 17:00 by Ernie Tucker

Ian Baring-Gould has traveled the globe for NREL, helping communities. He is amazed at the progress of renewables, particularly wind, over the past few decades.

Dec 19, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

Mike Callahan is the group manager for the Applied Engineering team, a new group at NREL that supports projects in the areas of resiliency, microgrids, building systems, and new technology testing and evaluation.

Dec 19, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

Senior NREL researcher Alicen Kandt frequently volunteers to speak with college students and young girls about careers in engineering and renewable energy.

Dec 19, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

ASHRAE President and NREL senior research advisor Sheila Hayter testified before the Canada House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources in November.

Dec 18, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

The German Aerospace Center has partnered with NREL to investigate how well rotor blades designed with bending-torsion coupling handle strongly variable wind speeds.

Dec 13, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

International award cements NREL’s status as a world leader in energy-efficient and sustainable data centers.

Dec 13, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

Two new reports from NREL track the evolving costs of PV and establish a new cost benchmark for PV-plus-storage.

Dec 12, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

The Shell GameChanger™ Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN) has announced its first round of start-up innovators – four companies focused on developing long-term energy storage and advancing the grid of the future.

Dec 12, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

New National Science Foundation and Department of Energy-funded research highlights a previously unexplored consequence of the global proliferation of wind energy facilities: a wake effect from upwind facilities that can reduce the energy production of their downwind neighbors.

Dec 9, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

NREL scientists have a long history of successfully analyzing geothermal and solar energy data. But they are now actively researching desalination capabilities by partnering with technology leaders on several groundbreaking projects. The purpose is to explore geothermal and solar-thermal technologies for creating fresh water from otherwise unusable water.

Dec 9, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

A team of NREL scientists partnered with Forest Concepts to perform detailed thermochemical conversion simulations for biomass feedstocks. The simulations relate feedstock attributes to expected product yields and necessary pyrolysis conversion process conditions.

Dec 3, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

NREL and partners have created a new blade-resolved model of a large modern wind turbine, enabling scientists and engineers to begin understanding the complex flow physics in multi-turbine wind farms that will take advantage of future exascale modeling and simulation capability.

Nov 29, 2018, 17:00 by User Not Found

The challenge to modernize our grid is not a maintenance task or an everyday repair. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) is responding to a grid transformation unlike anything the nation has experienced.