Grid Modernization News

Jun 6, 2022, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

Energy storage is expected to play a big role in tomorrow's clean energy grid. To help guide future development of pumped storage hydropower facilities in the United States, NREL researchers developed a new interactive map and geospatial dataset to identify potential installation sites and estimate the quantity, quality, and cost of resources available at each.

Jun 6, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

In our world where windowless buildings rarely exist, the subtle significance of windows can easily be lost. Today, windows are responsible for about 10% of energy use in buildings and influence end uses that comprise 40% of building energy use.

Jun 5, 2022, 18:00 by Susannah Shoemaker

NREL Senior Scientist Steve Johnston has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award.

Jun 5, 2022, 18:00 by Kelly MacGregor

At the DOE Solar Decathlon 2022 Competition Event, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced the launch of two Solar Decathlon workforce development programs to bring the collegiate competition's sustainable buildings expertise, experience, and mentorship into high school classrooms and architectural studios across the country.

Jun 1, 2022, 18:00 by Devonie Oleson

A new video and report explain why fault protection should be on grid planners' radar as the power system continues to evolve.

Jun 1, 2022, 18:00 by Moriah Petty

Jerry Davis has been selected as the new Laboratory Program Manager for two of NREL's leading research capabilities: the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) research platform and the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF).

Jun 1, 2022, 18:00 by Moriah Petty

Jordan Burns is a risk and resilience researcher helping communities reach their energy goals through the DOE's Energy Transitions Initiative. She uses a community-driven approach to understand placed-based resilience solutions that can be incorporated into local strategic clean energy plans.

May 31, 2022, 18:00 by Anya Breitenbach and Julia Thomas

A surprisingly high number of auto accidents—21% of all car crashes—occur at intersections with traffic lights. While these incidents are usually caused by driver error, new technology linked to roadway infrastructure can help prevent crashes resulting from human lapses of judgment.

May 31, 2022, 18:00 by Connor O'Neil

A demonstration of outage recovery using inverter-based resources is showing how renewable energy can lead the way to power system resilience.

May 31, 2022, 18:00 by Ryan Horns

With fuel prices soaring, a new government-industry partnership based at NREL plans to shift the aviation market further away from oil fields and closer to the farmlands.

May 31, 2022, 18:00 by Kelly MacGregor

Students from the University of Oklahoma took home first place and $10,000 in prize funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy 2022 Geothermal Collegiate Competition, an annual event that prepares students to lead the next generation of geothermal energy development.

May 30, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

Deblasio was instrumental in getting the solar photovoltaics and distributed energy industries going. Sadly, he died on April 27 at the age of 80.

May 30, 2022, 18:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

With SHARKS, ARPA-E and NREL could make it possible for marine energy devices to power up in rivers across the country and play a valuable role in combating the climate change crisis.

May 30, 2022, 18:00 by User Not Found

NREL provides technical support to the residential construction industry through its Subject Matter Experts (SME) program.

May 26, 2022, 18:00 by Laura Carter

Using novel analyses for floating wind turbines, researchers at NREL have assessed the best way to divide up the first West Coast offshore wind energy areas into leasing areas that could power 1.5 million homes, bringing California and the United States closer to their clean energy goals.

May 26, 2022, 18:00 by Carol Laurie

NREL has released version 2.3 of its Open Operational Assessment (OpenOA) software, which helps demystify wind plant operations for wind plant operators.

May 25, 2022, 18:00 by Josh Rasmussen

U.S. Department of Defense's ESTCP is working to identify and demonstrate the most promising, innovative, and cost-effective technologies and methods that address DOD's highest-priority environmental requirements.

May 25, 2022, 18:00 by Lindsey McGuirk

Deploying 60 gigawatts of geothermal electricity would be enough to provide clean, reliable power for 129 million American homes and businesses. A key factor to unlocking that amount of always-available geothermal energy could be through innovation in subsurface seismic sensors, or geophones.

May 25, 2022, 18:00 by Connor O’Neil

Trick question: What is your nearest airport? You might think of the urban hub you always catch flights from, even if that airport is hours away.

May 25, 2022, 18:00 by Madeline Geocaris

The third catalyzer in the JISEA Catalyzers initiative will explore algorithmic energy efficiency, in addition to ways to limit energy usage of computing and potential pathways to reuse, repair, or recycle hardware products and materials.