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November 2024

Nov. 7, 2024

Call for Input: Capacity Accelerator for Tribal Offshore Wind Energy Engagement

Do you have ideas about how to build Tribal capacity to engage in offshore wind energy decision-making? We want to hear from you!

Nov. 6, 2024

NREL To Support $50 Million Investment in Distributed Energy Systems by Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

The DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations selected NREL to provide technical assistance with integrating distributed energy resources (DERs) in Colorado, Massachusetts, and Virginia to make the electric grids safer and more responsive, resilient, and affordable.

October 2024

Oct. 30, 2024

Heliostat Consortium Delivers New Tools To Ensure Quality of Precision Mirrors and Support the Concentrating Solar Industry

In its 2024 annual report, HelioCon details its advancement of a third-party technique to improve heliostat accuracy for manufacturers, the launch of an open-source CSP platform, and the growth of the HelioCon community in the past year.

Oct. 30, 2024

NREL Celebrates Industry Advancements on Weatherization Day

The perfect winter coat should be comfortable to wear—not too warm and not too cold. It's affordable, sturdy, and protects you well from the wind, rain, and snow.

Oct. 30, 2024

Researcher Melissa Gish Bridges Chemistry and Physics To Improve Solar Energy Technologies

The journal Trends in Chemistry recently honored NREL researcher Melissa Gish in a special issue designed to highlight emerging leaders in chemistry innovating in their respective fields.

Oct. 30, 2024

Are Carbon-Free Energy Systems Possible? NREL Has a Way To Find Out

Live power experiments using NREL’s ARIES platform solve future energy challenges in the present.

Oct. 29, 2024

NREL's Commercial Electric Vehicle Cost-of-Ownership Tool Is Best in Class—And Free

Researchers from NREL have released a new version of the Transportation Technology Total Cost of Ownership tool, known as T3CO—the most sophisticated open-source commercial vehicle TCO tool available today.

Oct. 25, 2024

NREL-Backed Research Effort Twists Halide Perovskites From a Distance

Research led by scientists at NREL and the Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy, an Energy Frontier Research Center, discovered a new process to induce chirality in halide perovskite semiconductors.

Oct. 23, 2024

Celebrating Bioenergy Day 2024 With a Research Retrospective

With National Bioenergy Day 2024 upon us, NREL reflects on some of the team's scientific discoveries over the past year that have helped strengthen the bioeconomy.

Oct. 23, 2024

Dive Into a Lake of Data: Open Energy Data Initiative Increases Big Data Access for Everyone

When data is widely accessible and available to anyone, anywhere, it can transform communities—especially when that data concerns something as vital as energy.


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Last Updated April 28, 2025