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December 2020
Wells Fargo Invests $20M To Extend Highly Successful IN2 Incubator Program Through 2024
Now in its seventh year, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) is now a $50 million program, designed from the start to consider a diverse cross section of start-ups, collect them into cohorts, connect them with technological expertise, and accelerate their clean technologies to the marketplace.
November 2020
Synthetic Data Sets Set New Standard in Energy Systems Research
An NREL team and external collaborators have invented near-replicas of energy systems—realistic down to individual devices and up to interstate power transmission. The team's creation, Smart-DS, is set to become the new standard in modeling and simulating energy system scenarios.
Q&A With Tarek Elgindy on SMART-DS: Texas-Sized Grid Modeling for Renewable Resource Integration
Since joining NREL as a summer intern in 2015, Tarek Elgindy has since become a key engineer, developing SMART-DS: Synthetic Models for Advanced, Realistic Testing: Distribution Systems and Scenarios through the Power Systems Engineering Center.
Eight NREL Scientists Included on List of Highly Cited Researchers
Eight researchers affiliated with NREL are on this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers compiled by Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science Group, with four identified for their influence beyond their own scientific specialty.
News Release: Scientific Organization AAAS Names NREL's Green a Fellow
Johney Green, an associate laboratory director at NREL, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
How Might Electric Vehicles Affect Electric Loads? Expanded Online Tool Provides Quick Answers
New feature of NREL's electric vehicle infrastructure projection tool helps utilities, agencies, and researchers predict hour-by-hour impact of charging on the grid.
From the Garage to the Open Sea: NREL's Scott Jenne To Patent Inflatable Wave Pump Design
NREL researcher Scott Jenne and his team are paving the way to the development of the wave energy generation devices of tomorrow.
HyBlend Project To Accelerate Potential for Blending Hydrogen in Natural Gas Pipelines
NREL will lead a new collaborative research and development project known as HyBlend to address the technical barriers to blending hydrogen in natural gas pipelines.
An Unexpected Debut: ARIES Microgrid Infrastructure Powers NREL Campus Through Outage
A power outage involving a transformer at NREL's Flatirons Campus provided an opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of the new Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) research platform. ARIES was used to repower the Campus exactly as envisioned for renewable microgrid systems of the future.
News Release: NREL Advanced Manufacturing Research Moves Wind Turbine Blades Toward Recyclability
A new material for wind blades that can be recycled could transform the wind industry, rendering renewable energy more sustainable than ever before while lowering costs in the process. The use of a thermoplastic resin has been validated at NREL.
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