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October 2022
NREL's Sheila Hayter Selected as New Buildings Institute Senior Fellow
Pioneer. Visionary. Mentor. Buildings Champion. These are a few words that describe Sheila Hayter's impact during her 30-year career.
The Right Data in the Right Way
Researchers at NREL are developing data-gathering tools to help accelerate the development of promising marine energy technologies.
September 2022
NREL Power Electronics Capabilities Primed for Innovation
With the modern transition to renewable energy and electrified transportation, power electronics have the potential to enable seamless integration of renewable energy resources with the electric grid. Take a virtual 360-degree tour of NREL's power electronics capabilities.
The New Grids on the Block
NREL's validation capabilities range from lab to field, watt to megawatt, component to system, and nanogrid to microgrid.
Microgrids For Anyone
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has now published a description of the improvised controls that saved NREL during its own outage, which could make microgrids easy and low cost where they are needed most.
Science Needs the Right Attitude
"Science" was a class you probably took in school, but the subject matter you studied was not the only thing you learned.
First Cohort of Innovators Enter West Gate
West Gate is a program that embeds innovators at NREL and pairs them with national laboratory scientists and capabilities over a period of two years, during which they have prime access to world-class national laboratory capabilities and expertise to significantly advance the development of their clean-energy technologies.
News Release: International Heliostat Consortium Releases Roadmap and Solicitation To Improve Commercial Viability of Heliostats
NREL, joined by partners at Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, released its multiyear heliostat roadmap, which identifies research and deployment gaps in heliostat technologies as well as the strategies to overcome them during the next five years.
Your Rechargeable Batteries Need Lithium. Geothermal Energy Could Soon Help
As product managers at NREL, Nicholas Gilroy and Haiku Sky help turn complex information into a compelling journey on the web. Their work allows users to interact with data, and even download information as the story of research unfolds.
Department of Energy Renews NREL's Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy
Cutting-edge semiconductor research at NREL will continue at the Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) as part of funding announced last week.
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Last Updated May 5, 2025