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July 2023

July 12, 2023

New Prize To Propel Wind Turbine Materials Recycling

The newly launched Wind Turbine Materials Recycling Prize, a $5.1 million competition administered by NREL, aims to help the country develop a cost-effective and sustainable domestic recycling industry for two high-impact categories of wind turbine materials to create a circular U.S. wind energy economy.

July 11, 2023

Q&A With Samantha Reese: The Fix-It Engineer Who Digs Up Data To Fix the Planet

In this Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A, Sam Reese shares how she ended up traveling around the world and how she is sharing her fix-it mindset with her kids.

June 2023

June 5, 2023

NREL Power Electronics Researcher Wins ASME Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal

Sreekant Narumanchi, who leads NREL's advanced power electronics and electric machines research, has been awarded the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal.

May 2023

May 24, 2023

Q&A With Andriy Zakutayev: Materials Architect Builds New Energy-Efficient Devices One Atom at a Time

As a materials scientist at NREL, Andriy Zakutayev manufactures materials to find new ways to control electrons, helping them carry electricity inside computers, solar panels, and smartphones.

May 15, 2023

New Water Treatment Technology Could Help Recycle Even Super Salty Waters

An emerging form of water treatment could be the most cost-effective way to produce clean drinking water from super salty wastewaters from agricultural runoff, groundwater, and more, according to a new study.

May 2, 2023

Stage 2 Winners of a Manufacturing Prize Are Supercharging U.S. Industries

Seven winning teams have designed conductive materials that could dramatically lower manufacturing and energy costs and make it easier for the country to reach the levels of electrification needed to meet its goal of a carbon-pollution-free economy by 2050.

May 1, 2023

Technical Assistance Available for Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

A new technical assistance program in support of the Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program is available to support small- and medium-sized manufacturers in communities that have experienced coal mine or coal-fired power plant closures. Applications are due May 26, 2023.

April 2023

April 11, 2023

Q&A With Danish Saleem: A 'Bottomless Cyber Enthusiast' Works To Secure U.S. Power Grid Against Hackers

Like a blizzard, a hacker could cut off power to millions of Americans—but not if Danish Saleem can help it. In our latest Q&A profile, Saleem explains how he is working to build security into distributed clean energy technologies to protect the country's power grid from the rising threat of cyberattacks.

March 2023

March 28, 2023

Advanced Computing Powers 300-Plus Clean Energy Projects

In Fiscal Year 2022, NREL played a critical role in computing advancements for 300-plus clean energy research projects through high-performance computing (HPC), efficient data center operation, and state-of-the-art data visualization.

March 8, 2023

New Prize Aims To Accelerate Microbattery Advances and Adoption

The new Microbattery Design Prize offers a total prize pool of $1.1 million in federal funding and performance and safety testing services with DOE national laboratories.


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