ARPA-E Wind Wins: NREL to Produce Public Datasets that Advance Floating Wind Turbine Design

Next-gen floating wind systems will use controls to make them more efficient, lighter weight, and lower cost, but first industry needs a foundation built on validated design tools to explore novel controls-integrated design approaches. NREL is generating the first public data set to include advanced turbine and platform control using a 1:60-scale testing setup, which will provide data to validate the modeling tools incorporating control co-design characteristics.

Bryan Pivovar: Champion for H2@Scale

Bryan Pivovar began researching hydrogen when the field was wide open, but now the new NREL senior research fellow sees the next decade belonging to hydrogen energy.

R&D 100 Awards Honor Two NREL Innovations

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today won two R&D 100 Awards from R&D World magazine.

A New Way to Measure Mobility Potential of Cities

The Mobility Energy Productivity (MEP) metric comprehensively quantifies the efficiency of transportation systems while taking time, affordability, and energy use into consideration.

Potential of a Fast-Growing Algae Strain Revealed Through NREL Research

Researchers said the strain thrives at high temperature and in saltwater, while rapidly converting carbon dioxide into renewable biomass.

Modeling Modernity: NREL Proposes Key Revisions to the IEEE Reliability Test System

Outlined in their article in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, NREL researchers and colleagues proposed an update to the IEEE Reliability Test System (RTS) to bring it into the 21st century.

Matt Beard: New Senior Research Fellow Helps Make Quantum Leap in Solar Energy

Newly appointed NREL Senior Research Fellow Matt Beard is pursuing new concepts that can impact many types of different energy technologies.

News Release: NREL Publishes Science Journal Article Posing Three Challenges to Wind Energy Potential

NREL Celebrates National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day October 8

This week the National Renewable Energy Laboratory joins others across the United States to celebrate the fifth National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day on October 8--10.08--a date chosen to represent the atomic weight of hydrogen (1.008).

News Release: NREL Names FAST Competition Grand Prize Winners

The FAST Prize competition sought ideas to reduce the time to commission pumped-storage hydropower.