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July 2024
July 26, 2024
Panels, Presentations, and Posters: NREL Plays Key Role at Premier Wind Energy Conference
At the TORQUE Conference in Florence, Italy, this May, NREL wind researchers took to the stage to share their impactful research and learn from others.
July 26, 2024
The Grid Can Handle More Renewable Energy, But It Needs Some Help
A new kind of grid technology, called medium-voltage silicon carbide converters, could help the U.S. grid smoothly transition to renewable energy.
July 25, 2024
NREL Project Sets Stage for Quantifying Future Energy System Cyber Risks
Researchers at NREL recently explored a model of risk evaluation to energy system upgrades in a project called Cyber100 Compass.
July 24, 2024
Second Cohort of Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator Evaluates System Visibility
Evolving cybersecurity risks to the U.S. energy sector can challenge rapidly transforming system architectures and technologies. To understand and adapt to cybersecurity threats utilities need first to understand their own environment.
July 23, 2024
News Release: NREL Researchers Highlight Opportunities for Manufacturing Perovskite Solar Panels With a Long-Term Vision
Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable.
July 23, 2024
NREL's Camp Cleantech To Empower Startups for Success
A new event from NREL, Camp Cleantech aims to give startups the tools and lessons to overcome the surprises that await them on the journey to the market.
July 22, 2024
NREL Model Fast-Tracks Hydrogen Supply Chain Infrastructure Deployment
Reducing capital and viability risks for infrastructure investment decisions will accelerate the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles. NREL is helping stakeholders forecast demand and minimize infrastructure buildout costs.
July 19, 2024
Behind the Blades: Cory Frontin Finds His Rhythm in Renewable Energy
When Cory Frontin is not developing simulation methods for wind and renewable energy, he likes to do "typical outdoorsy Colorado things," like rock climbing.
July 18, 2024
IN² at 10 Years: Cohort 1 Participant Uses Liquid To Cool Computers
When NREL Senior Mechanical Engineer Eric Kozubal first learned about the LiquidCool's technology, he was eager to get to work on it through the first IN² cohort.
July 18, 2024
Farmers, Rural Businesses To Harvest Benefits of New Project Selections
A new crop of Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) award selections will benefit farmers and small rural businesses by focusing on how to remove market barriers to distributed wind turbine deployment in agricultural settings.
July 17, 2024
Into Another Dimension: Nanoscale Trilayer Exhibits Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Semiconductor Materials
Deriving inspiration from the natural process of photosynthesis, NREL researchers developed a mixed-dimensionality (2D/1D/2D) trilayer of semiconductors to enable exciton dissociation.
July 17, 2024
Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2 Names Phase 1 Data Track Winners
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity announced nine Phase 1 Utility/Data Challenge track winning teams of the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 2.
July 17, 2024
NREL Researchers Collaborate To Optimize Transmission Modeling Efficiency
Advanced computing plays a pivotal role in accelerating clean energy research at NREL, whether researchers need simulations of traffic systems, models of biomass conversion, or optimization of renewable energy implementation.
July 16, 2024
Sreekant Narumanchi Travels the Intersection of Heat Transfer, Power Electronics, and Electric Motors to Electrification of Vehicles
Sreekant Narumanchi, who leads NREL's Advanced Power Electronics and Electric Machines group, was chosen as one of NREL's Distinguished Researchers in 2024.
July 15, 2024
NREL Transportation Researchers Recognized for Teamwork, Leadership, and Expertise at DOE Annual Merit Review
Each year, awards are presented to individuals from Department of Energy national laboratories and other partner organizations for their contributions to overall program efforts and in recognition of their research, development, demonstration, and deployment achievements in specific areas.
July 15, 2024
Stellar Year for the Solar Market, at Home and Abroad
The year 2023, according to NREL analyst David Feldman, was a year of historic proportions in the solar power industry.
July 11, 2024
Offshore Wind Turbines Offer Path for Clean Hydrogen Production
Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at NREL.
July 11, 2024
NREL Research Dives Deeper Into the Mysteries of Energy Control in Electron-Bifurcating Enzymes
Since 2019, NREL senior scientist Cara Lubner and her team have made considerable progress toward mapping the energy landscape of an enzymatic reaction.
July 2, 2024
Rocketing to the Top: Kate Anderson Launched Her Career by Aiming High
As a young girl growing up in Connecticut, NREL's Strategy Lead Kate Anderson dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
July 2, 2024
GCxN Company's Feedstock Poised To Be More Economical and Versatile
Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass Founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN).
July 2, 2024
Facilities Invited To Join New Hydropower Testing Network
The new Hydropower Testing Network connects hydropower technology developers with testing capability providers that can help developers advance their technologies toward commercialization.
July 1, 2024
Escaping the Lab Into the Sunlight: Research Examines Durability of Outdoor Perovskite Solar Cells
New research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy examines degradation mechanisms of PSCs under the unfiltered sunlight of the outdoors in comparison with widely used light-emitting diodes.
July 1, 2024
News Release: Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control From Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors
A research effort led by scientists at NREL has made advances that could enable a broader range of currently unimagined optoelectronic devices.
June 2024
June 28, 2024
NREL Explores Path To Increase Occupant Safety During Extreme Weather
Bitter cold temperatures. Unrelenting heat. Power outages that last for weeks. NREL researchers are planning for extreme weather by calculating what it will take to make the situation survivable.
June 28, 2024
A Five-Step Plan To Support Smooth Transitions in the Hydropower Workforce
With a new resource developed by NREL, hydropower organizations can better prepare for worker turnover and limit knowledge loss along the way.
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