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September 2024

Sept. 18, 2024

Tim Silverman Likes Breaking Things—and That Is Good for Photovoltaic Reliability

The Materials Science senior scientist was named one of NREL's 2024 Distinguished Members of Research Staff.

Sept. 16, 2024

West Gate's Third Cohort Most Diverse Set of Technologies Yet

The third cohort of West Gate, NREL's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, includes innovations ranging from pumping carbon dioxide into pit lakes to helping solar arrays adapt to a passing cloud.

Sept. 16, 2024

30-Year Friendship Finds a Research Home Through Department of Energy's Visiting Faculty Program

A novel DOE Office of Science program builds bridges between minority-serving institutions and national laboratories.

Sept. 16, 2024

College Students—Design for a Better Built World

Join the Solar Decathlon 2025 Design Challenge to compete with teams from around the globe in zero-energy design.

Sept. 16, 2024

News Release: NREL Breaks Ground on New Facility To Accelerate Lab-Scale Innovations for Scale-Up and Industry Adoption

NREL broke ground today on its new Energy Materials and Processing at Scale (EMAPS) facility on the east side of its South Table Mountain Campus in Golden, Colorado.

Sept. 12, 2024

Advanced Hydropower Cybersecurity: Introducing the Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework 2.0

NREL has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Value-at-Risk Framework, a free, publicly available tool that helps power plant owners and operators assess their cybersecurity risks and make sound cybersecurity investment decisions.

Sept. 12, 2024

Researchers Discover New Way To Make 'Atomic Lasagna'

A research team discovered a method to transform materials with three-dimensional atomic structures into nearly two-dimensional structures.

Sept. 11, 2024

NREL Partner Forum Tackles the Built Environment

Nearly 150 innovators, energy planners, analysts, entrepreneurs, and researchers converged on NREL's Golden, Colorado, campus to focus on a highly complex, seemingly intractable problem: decarbonizing the built environment.

Sept. 10, 2024

News Release: NREL's Economic Impact Hits $1.9 Billion

The economic impact of NREL topped $1.9 billion nationwide in fiscal year 2023, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

Sept. 9, 2024

Partnership With USDA Highlights NREL's Value in Addressing Rural Renewable Energy Questions

Farmers and rural small businesses in the United States are interested in transitioning to renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency for their businesses.


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Last Updated May 5, 2025