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September 2022
Matthew Beard Wins Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
National Renewable Energy (NREL) Senior Research Fellow Matthew Beard accepted the prestigious Ernest Orlando (EO) Lawrence Award on Thursday at a hybrid awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C.
NREL and Cemvita Factory Team Up To Put Carbon Dioxide to Good Use
For some entrepreneurs, carbon dioxide is more than a greenhouse gas. It is an opportunity and a business case for decarbonizing fuel and chemical production.
Considerations To Achieve a Sustainable U.S. Commercial Building Stock
New study led by the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis identifies drivers, barriers, and costs of adopting building sensors and controls systems.
Electric Vehicle Battery Models Inform Crash Simulation Evaluations To Improve Real-World Safety, Reliability
As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increasingly gains momentum, NREL is collaborating with Hyundai Motor Company to ensure EV batteries can safely and reliably go the distance.
Patented Wave Energy Technology Gets Its Sea Legs
Distributed embedded energy converter technologies (or DEEC-Tecs) could eventually transform sources of everyday energy into electricity or other forms of usable energy.
NREL To Manage New Wind Energy Competition
The new FLoating Offshore Wind ReadINess (FLOWIN) Prize, administered by NREL, invites competitors to help drive down the costs of floating offshore wind energy by 70% by 2035.
NREL Authors Publish Quantum Computing First in Nature Communications
An NREL-led team demonstrated cellular automata on a quantum computer, teasing out the underlying nature of complexity.
Q&A With Avantika Singh: The Cautious Optimist Who Hates Waste (Like, Really Hates Waste)
As part of the Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A profile series, Avantika Singh shares why she hates waste and what she's doing to help combat it.
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.
On the Road to 100% Clean Electricity: Six Potential Strategies To Break Through Last Few Percent
A growing body of research has demonstrated that cost-effective high-renewable power systems are possible, but costs increase as systems approach 100% carbon-free electricity—what has become known as the "last 10% problem."
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Last Updated May 5, 2025