Work With Us

NREL offers industrial sector partners a suite of complementary capabilities that meet industry's needs for process innovation and allow innovative use of domestic resources. Partnership highlights include:

The West Gate Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program offers promising entrepreneurs a career-changing opportunity to access NREL's expertise and capabilities to speed the development of their startup's core technologies.

NREL is one of four national laboratories leading the National Alliance for Water Innovation, a 10-year, $185-million energy-water desalination hub.

NREL works with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation to identify new manufacturing pathways and uses for domestically sourced composite materials.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships help American industrial users lower costs; install onsite energy technologies; and increase resilience, security, and energy independence. NREL is one of three labs with subject matter expertise in onsite energy deployment supporting this program.

NREL focuses on applied solutions to achieve near-term critical materials and rare earth production increases and works with industrial partners to accelerate domestic production of these materials. NREL also has expertise in designing integrated systems for resource extraction and developing and optimizing metallurgical processes. Additionally, NREL is helping secure U.S. supply chains through reduction and replacement of critical materials, with a focus on the development of new materials, especially semiconductor materials. To learn more about how we can work together in this space, contact Kerry Rippy.

You can partner with NREL through technology partner agreements or entrepreneurship programs. NREL's award-winning energy technologies are also available for licensing. For more information about how to partner with us, visit NREL's Work With Us page. You can also review our lab's advanced manufacturing areas of research and impacts.

NREL partners with industries, universities, foundations, utilities, communities, and governments to develop research collaborations, license NREL technologies, support energy stakeholders, and accelerate energy innovation and systems integration. NREL also partners with organizations on competitive opportunities.

NREL partners with stakeholders to develop robust supply chains, cutting-edge materials, and innovative industrial technologies to enable cost-effective energy solutions. Current priorities include:

• Artificial intelligence systems and controls
  
• Cement and concrete
  
• Chemicals and catalysts
  
• Composites
  
• Critical materials
  
• Data center efficiency
  
• Food and beverage
  
• Fuels and feedstocks
  
• Harsh environment materials 
  
• Iron and steel
  
• Mining
  
• Plastics and polymers
  
• Power electronics
  
• Pulp and paper
  
• Semiconductors/microelectronics
  
• Smart manufacturing
  
• Strategic analysis for industry
  
• Thermal energy for systems
  
• Water and wastewater.