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July 2025

July 22, 2025

News Release: Jud Virden, Ph.D., Appointed Laboratory Director at NREL

The Alliance for Sustainable Energy announced the appointment of Jud Virden, Ph.D., as director of NREL and president of the Alliance, which manages the laboratory for the Department of Energy. Virden will officially join NREL in this role on Oct. 1, 2025.

July 22, 2025

NREL and Google Host Artificial Intelligence Hackathon To Tackle Data Center Energy Challenges

NREL and Google teamed up to host a hackathon, bringing together researchers from nine DOE national laboratories to explore and leverage Google's generative artificial intelligence and large language model tools to address an array of critical challenges related to energy limitations for U.S. data centers.

July 15, 2025

Researcher Spotlight: Violeta Sanchez i Nogue’s Journey to Bioprocess Development at NREL

In the summer of 2015, Violeta Sanchez i Nogue joined NREL as a postdoctoral researcher working on a project to produce carbon fibers.

July 11, 2025

A Career Built on Helping Others: Cory Chovanec's Journey in Weatherization

NREL researcher Cory Chovanec uses his field experience to help increase energy affordability for Americans through the Weatherization Assistance Program.

July 10, 2025

NREL Modeling Shows Geothermal and Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Can Reliably Heat Buildings in Extreme Cold

New energy storage research from NREL has demonstrated a way to store and reuse heat underground to meet the heating demands of cold regions like Alaska.

July 9, 2025

Collaboration Between NREL and CubicPV Pushes Perovskite Minimodule Performance to New Heights

A collaborative effort between NREL and CubicPV has yielded a perovskite minimodule that belongs in the record books.

July 8, 2025

Beyond Flights: Airports Could Bolster Grid Security and Adaptability

Researchers at NREL are using the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform and other capabilities to analyze energy options for airports, utilities, and public regulators. In many cases, they find a win-win for on-site energy generation and storage.

July 8, 2025

Collaboration Reveals How Light Unlocks Chemistry of Nickel Catalyst

A team of scientists across several national laboratories has unraveled how light and a previously unknown form of certain nickel-based catalysts together unlock and preserve reactivity.

July 1, 2025

High-Performance Computing Advanced More Than 425 Energy Research Projects in 2024

NREL's Advanced Computing Annual Report for FY 2024 showcases the significant contributions of advanced computing.

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Plastics Recycling With Enzymes Takes a Leap Forward

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.


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Last Updated July 8, 2025