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January 2022

Jan. 14, 2022

Landmark Demonstration Shows How Common Wind Turbine Can Provide Fundamental Grid Stability

NREL uses advanced grid research environment for first-ever example of type-3 turbines using grid-forming controls.

Jan. 13, 2022

Kentucky Community Partners With NREL To Meet 100% Clean Goals

The community of Louisville, Kentucky, is partnering with NREL to achieve a goal of 100% clean electricity for municipal government operations by 2030.

Jan. 13, 2022

DOE Launches AlgaePrize for Student Innovators—Competition Will Culminate at NREL in Spring 2023

A new competition from the U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office encourages students to imagine and develop innovative technology solutions using algae as a potent and flexible energy resource.

Jan. 12, 2022

Happy Hours: Energy Storage Could Support the Grid Every Hour of the Day, All Year Long

The latest phase of the Storage Futures Study finds the grid operates more efficiently with high levels of energy storage across all studied system configurations and grid mixes.

Jan. 11, 2022

NREL Scientists Dive Into Data in Search of Answers

In NREL's Insight Center, models come to life, illuminating pathways to a clean energy future.

Jan. 10, 2022

Aligning Utilities and Electric Vehicles, for the Greater Grid

A team at NREL completed a literature review on the potential value of electric vehicle (EV) managed charging. Findings provide a complete look at how EVs and the grid could work together as the electric and transportation sectors become intertwined.

Jan. 10, 2022

REopt Goes Underground To Elevate Facility Energy Savings and Resilience

A new geothermal heat pump module enables the REopt web tool to evaluate individual facility energy, cost, and emissions impacts of converting conventional heating and cooling systems to ground-source heat pumps.

Jan. 10, 2022

A Year in Review: Advancing Energy Storage and Conversion Research

Over the past year, NREL researchers have pioneered innovative, interdisciplinary, and integrated research and development for technology advancements in electrochemical, molecular, thermal, and mechanical energy storage systems.

Jan. 5, 2022

Python Opens Up New Applications for EnergyPlus Building Energy Simulation

Buildings account for more than 40% of U.S. energy use and 70% of U.S. electricity use. Reducing that consumption and "shaping" it to match renewable generation requires us to design and operate buildings to be more efficient, flexible, and responsive. To do that, we must be able to better predict and model building energy use.

Jan. 3, 2022

Understanding the Impact of Wind Conditions on Concentrating Solar Power Structures

High wind loads increase structural design costs of concentrating solar power collector structures, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs.

December 2021

Dec. 28, 2021

Bringing Energy-Efficient Building Technologies Closer to Commercialization

DOE is accelerating emerging technologies from lab to market through its Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). With an overarching goal to increase the number of commercialized energy technologies developed at national laboratories, the TCF Program awarded funding to support two NREL Buildings projects.

Dec. 28, 2021

Top 20 NREL Stories of 2021

NREL researchers and staff reached countless goals and achieved numerous successes in science, partnerships, and technology commercialization in 2021. Here are just a few of the highlights.

Dec. 27, 2021

Sakshi Mishra Named One of Forbes' 30 Under 30

NREL researcher Sakshi Mishra was named to the North America 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy List, part of an annual recognition of groups of 30 young professionals in areas such as health care, media, and science.

Dec. 20, 2021

NREL Wind Energy Program Demonstrates Innovation and Leadership Throughout 2021

From advancing wind energy science, technologies, and materials to demonstrating thought leadership on a worldwide scale, NREL's Wind Energy Program played a powerful role in maximizing the impact of wind energy during 2021.

Dec. 20, 2021

News Release: NREL Launches New International Consortium To Advance High-Tech Mirrors Used in Solar Plants

NREL, joined by our partners at Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, announces the launch of the Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon), an international effort to drive down the cost of heliostats.

Dec. 17, 2021

35 Teams Advance to Solar District Cup Finals

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition announced that 35 teams from 39 schools are advancing as finalists in the Class of 2021–2022 program.

Dec. 17, 2021

NREL Experimental Effort Synthesizes a Previously Theoretical Material

Scientists at NREL have experimentally synthesized a nitride perovskite that previously only existed in theory and measured its properties in collaboration with researchers at the Colorado School of Mines.

Dec. 16, 2021

News Release: NREL Seeks Applications for 2022 Executive Energy Leadership Program

Energy Execs provides industry and community leaders an opportunity to learn about the latest advanced energy technologies, which will help guide their organizations in future energy-related decisions and planning.

Dec. 16, 2021

NREL’s Ted Sears Supports White House Effort To Convert Federal Fleet to Electric Vehicles

NREL fuel and vehicle regulations expert Ted Sears has been tasked by the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to lead efforts to convert the federal fleet to zero-emission vehicles.

Dec. 16, 2021

Resilient and Ready: NREL Helps Large Federal Campuses Examine Their Energy and Water Posture

The federal government owns or manages hundreds of thousands of federal buildings, and agencies have a vested interest in ensuring their buildings and energy and water infrastructure assets can withstand and recover from deliberate attacks, accidents, or naturally occurring hazards or incidents. With a massive portfolio of diverse assets, federal agencies are calling on resilience planning experts at NREL.


Last Updated May 28, 2025