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August 2025
Applications Open for Collegiate Competitions Aimed at Inspiring Future Water Power Workforce
Application period opens for annual marine energy and hydropower competitions, which challenge college students to find real-world solutions and explore career pathways.
March 2025
46 Patents, One Fiscal Year
In Fiscal Year 2024, researchers at NREL submitted a record-breaking 294 innovations, representing potentially patentable inventions or copyrightable software.
January 2025
Cybersecurity Accelerator Expands To Speed Commercialization of Department of Energy Technologies
The Critical Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator has launched a new track to help technologies across the U.S. Department of Energy's 17 national laboratories bridge the gap from concept to adoption.
News Release: Floating Solar Panels Could Support US Energy Goals
Scientists and analysts at NREL quantified for the first time exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs.
NREL's 2024 Standard Scenarios Now Available
Marking its 10th annual release, the 2024 Standard Scenarios provides valuable information on future trends in energy technology deployment and generation, energy costs, and emissions.
December 2024
NREL's International Work Bridges Innovation and Development―With Benefits at Home and Abroad
NREL's partnerships with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of State, and countries and organizations across the globe are accelerating social, technical, and economic development worldwide.
Beneath the Surface: Salman Husain Ponders the Future of Work, Wave Energy, and World Stewardship
Explore the fascinating world of wave energy with Salman Husain, a lifelong engineer tackling marine energy's toughest challenges. Discover how his passions for problem solving and global stewardship shape his quest for a sustainable future.
November 2024
Summer 2024 Was One for the Power Grid History Books
Grid operators in several regions kept the lights on this summer with more solar, storage, and wind.
October 2024
How a Clean Energy Simulator Is Helping Build a Better Grid
NREL's energy simulator can mimic the grids of the future—and now, this massive, virtual and real-world research platform can simulate water power, too.
New NREL Tool Estimates Lifetime Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Most Well-Established Grid-Scale Energy Storage Technology
NREL has developed a first-of-its-kind tool that enables hydropower operators and developers to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with building and operating closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facilities.
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Last Updated Aug. 20, 2025