November 2024
Summer 2024 Was One for the Power Grid History Books
Grid operators in several regions kept the lights on this summer with more solar, storage, and wind.
Lighting the Way for Agrivoltaics: How NREL Empowers Communities To Capture the Benefits of Solar Energy, Agriculture, and Ecosystems
NREL's research helps farmers, local communities, and global partners navigate the complexities of bringing solar onto the farm.
What Does the Horizon of Wind Energy Look Like?
A new NREL study examines the visual impacts of wind turbines on a national scale.
Utility-Scale Solar Fields Can Foster Abundant Biodiversity
Researchers take a deep look at the interactions between habitat, pollinators, and solar energy production on three large working solar farms in Minnesota.
6 NREL Researchers Named to Global Highly Cited List
Six researchers from NREL are included in this year's list of the most highly cited researchers.
Aquatic Acrobatics: University Collaboration Visualizes the Future of Flexible Wave Energy
A Ph.D. student, her professor, and a team of NREL researchers pioneer visual diagnostics to characterize flexible wave energy devices.
Heavy Metal Debut: A World-Class Metal Hydride System
Multiple industry sectors are beginning to harness hydrogen as a nearly emission-free pathway to generate power and fuel and to address a key challenge facing future energy systems: energy storage.
NREL's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Catapults Emerging Technologies, Startups, and NREL Research Into Investor and Industry Networks
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) held the NREL Innovation Showcase in Avon, Colorado, to gather cleantech and climate-tech entrepreneurs, industry experts, investors, and NREL researchers.
Device Deployments Help NREL Researchers Identify What Is Broken—So They Can Get To Work Fixing It
After deploying NREL's wave-powered desalination device multiple times, researchers are drawing on lessons learned to build a stronger, simpler design.
News Release: Thermochemical Tech Shows Promising Path for Building Heat
Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers with NREL.
NREL Partnership Demonstrates Computationally Efficient Analysis of Hybrid Plants
At NREL's Computational Science Center, the Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization Capability (MSOC) team regularly partners with other NREL researchers to help make advanced computing serve them better.
2024 Transportation Annual Technology Baseline Update Now Available
The one-stop shop for the latest transportation technology cost and performance data is back with even more data.
Call for Input: Capacity Accelerator for Tribal Offshore Wind Energy Engagement
Do you have ideas about how to build Tribal capacity to engage in offshore wind energy decision-making? We want to hear from you!
NREL To Support $50 Million Investment in Distributed Energy Systems by Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
The DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations selected NREL to provide technical assistance with integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) in Colorado, Massachusetts, and Virginia to make the electric grids safer and more responsive, resilient, and affordable.
October 2024
Heliostat Consortium Delivers New Tools To Ensure Quality of Precision Mirrors and Support the Concentrating Solar Industry
In its 2024 annual report, HelioCon details its advancement of a third-party technique to improve heliostat accuracy for manufacturers, the launch of an open-source CSP platform, and the growth of the HelioCon community in the past year.
NREL Celebrates Industry Advancements on Weatherization Day
The perfect winter coat should be comfortable to wear—not too warm and not too cold. It's affordable, sturdy, and protects you well from the wind, rain, and snow.
Are Carbon-Free Energy Systems Possible? NREL Has a Way To Find Out
Live power experiments using NREL’s ARIES platform solve future energy challenges in the present.
Researcher Melissa Gish Bridges Chemistry and Physics To Improve Solar Energy Technologies
The journal Trends in Chemistry recently honored NREL researcher Melissa Gish in a special issue designed to highlight emerging leaders in chemistry innovating in their respective fields.
NREL's Commercial Electric Vehicle Cost-of-Ownership Tool Is Best in Class—And Free
Researchers from NREL have released a new version of the Transportation Technology Total Cost of Ownership tool, known as T3CO—the most sophisticated open-source commercial vehicle TCO tool available today.
NREL-Backed Research Effort Twists Halide Perovskites From a Distance
Research led by scientists at NREL and the Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy, an Energy Frontier Research Center, discovered a new process to induce chirality in halide perovskite semiconductors.
Last Updated May 1, 2025