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The following news stories take an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at how NREL is advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
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August 2024
Aug. 8, 2024
Final Winners of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Clean Energy Education Prize's Inspire Track Announced
DOE launched the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Clean Energy Education Prize through the American-Made program to address the growing need for a robust and diverse clean energy workforce. Today, the final winners of the HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize in the Inspire Track were announced.
Aug. 6, 2024
NREL Buildings Research Is Helping US Navy Make Energy Efficiency Improvements
With more than 500,000 buildings and structures at more than 500 domestic and international naval sites, the U.S. Navy has an opportunity to achieve significant energy and cost savings by increasing efficiency.
Aug. 6, 2024
Stronger Together: Coupling Excitons to Polaritons for Better Solar Cells and Higher Intensity LEDs
In solar cells and light-emitting diodes, maintaining the excited state kinetics of molecules against annihilation is a race against time.
Aug. 5, 2024
Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A With Jibo Sanyal: The Nature Lover Who Sees Our Planet From a Bird's-Eye View
In the latest Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A, Jibo shares why a prosthesis changed how he sees himself and how clean energy could help manufacturing facilities do far more than just reduce their emissions.
Aug. 5, 2024
Two NREL Researchers Receive Sustainable Technology Awards
Parveen Dhillon and Paul Torcellini have been recognized by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for their outstanding contributions and accomplishments to sustainable technology.
Aug. 5, 2024
Soft Cost Analysis of EV Charging Infrastructure Informs Transition to an Electric Fleet
Soft costs for the private and public electric vehicle supply equipment needed to support electric vehicle fleets are essential to the transportation sector's electrification but are not well understood.
Aug. 1, 2024
Student-Led Teams Win Big at Community Energy Innovation Summit
Over the past seven months, a select group of college students in Texas and Georgia have been collaborating with local organizations to drive clean energy education and solutions.
July 2024
July 30, 2024
NREL Researchers Pave the Way for Carbon-Negative Concrete
BUILD'EM represents a promising step toward a greener construction industry.
July 30, 2024
The Path To Supply Clean Energy to Every Home
In the latest installment of NREL's Tell Me Something Grid Series, grid researcher Sherin Ann Abraham dives into the exciting challenges of modernizing the distribution grid.
July 30, 2024
Decades of NREL Research Power Electric Vehicle Revolution Progress
Electric vehicles have moved beyond novelty to ubiquity, with approximately 1.6 million light-duty electric vehicles were sold in the United States last year. NREL researchers are doing what they can to make sure the experience of driving an EV is a positive one.
July 29, 2024
Flipping the Script on Traditional Wind Turbine Technologies
An extensive study on one of NREL's research wind turbines offers keys insights into the benefits and challenges of downwind operations.
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.
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