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November 2022
Q&A With Stephanie Bostwick: Capacity Building and Energy Sovereignty for Tribal Nations
For Stephanie Bostwick's American Indian partners, the primary concern is energy sovereignty. Bostwick is an NREL project manager in the Energy Security and Resilience Center's Resilient Systems Design and Engineering group who supports technical assistance for tribal nations as well as resilience assessments for federal partners.
NREL Develops Cybersecurity Tool To Flag Threats for Grid
Cybersecurity is gaining significant importance on the power grid as more distributed energy resources (DERs) are connecting to operational technology (OT) networks.
Q&A With Maurice Martin: Advancing Cybersecurity on the Front Lines of the Modern Grid
Securing the grid from cyberattacks is increasingly important as systems become more distributed, digital, and interdependent. Thanks to serendipitous events in his career, Maurice Martin was able to board the cybersecurity train right as it was taking off.
September 2022
What's the Damage? New Customer Damage Function Calculator Estimates Costs of an Electric Grid Outage
Free online calculator helps quantify impacts to support resilience investments.
July 2022
Calling on Cybersecurity Innovators: Help Utilities Improve Authentication for Distributed Energy Systems
Utilities need cybersecurity solutions that are easy to implement and can make a real-world difference immediately. That is why the theme for the first cohort of the new Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator (CECA) is strong authentication for distributed energy resources.
Federal Aviation Administration Partners With NREL for a Holistic Look at Energy Needs of Electrified Aircraft
With integrated analysis from NREL, the FAA can create safety standards and recommend efficient and resilient airport infrastructure able to support electrified aircraft designs.
NREL Addresses Energy Challenges for Sustainable Aviation
From sustainable fuels to airport infrastructure analysis to next-gen aircraft, NREL offers solutions for lowering emissions in a sector that is among the most difficult to decarbonize.
June 2022
Q&A With Jordan Burns: A Community-Driven Approach to Energy Resilience
Jordan Burns is a risk and resilience researcher helping communities reach their energy goals through the DOE's Energy Transitions Initiative. She uses a community-driven approach to understand placed-based resilience solutions that can be incorporated into local strategic clean energy plans.
May 2022
Autonomous Energy Systems Expand Into Real-World Applications
NREL's Autonomous Energy Systems work has been used commercially, applied in cross-cutting demonstrations, and is continually pushing the scientific edge of controls and optimization.
The Building Blocks of Power Sector Security for Utilities Across the Globe
To help electric utilities better understand what a full cybersecurity program looks like, NREL partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in support of the Resilient Energy Platform, providing assistance to a variety of stakeholders to improve security for the electrical grid.
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Last Updated May 5, 2025