Decision Support

NREL provides decision support to help states, local jurisdictions, Tribal governments, territories, islands, rural communities, remote areas, and other communities and partners identify and implement energy solutions.

NREL works with government entities and other organizations to establish long-term energy visions and successfully implement secure, affordable, and resilient energy solutions. NREL can help with market analysis, disaster resilience and recovery, cost-saving strategies, cybersecurity, strategic planning and energy management, requests for proposals and performance contracting, and training and workshops.

Capabilities

Using advanced decision science methods, including multi-objective and multi-criteria decision support, NREL helps partners understand current and future interactions and roles of energy policies, markets, resources, technology systems and components, environmental impacts, and infrastructure:

• Techno-economic analyses of energy systems, energy integration, and project development
• Technology assessments and validation for building energy systems, energy storage, and renewable energy applications in the built environment.
• High-performance building projects, new technology demonstrations, commercial building retrofits, on-site data acquisition system installations, solar energy systems, building energy modeling, and energy savings performance contract.

Our experts use a variety of NREL-developed decision support data and tools for:

• Advanced energy system design for interactive virtual exploration of energy scenarios
• Energy modeling and optimization to guide decisions for buildings, districts, and microgrids
• Energy informatics to identify operational savings opportunities and unlock new revenue streams such as predictive maintenance or supervisory control
• Advanced decision science methods, including multi-objective and multi-criteria decision support.

Learn about our decision support data and tools.