How the Laboratory Contributed to a Clean Energy Future It may be hard to believe 2023 has already come and gone, but researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have not let the past year slip by. NREL’s scientists and staff have busily propelled … [continued]
The 2023–2024 JUMP into STEM Challenge Winners include nine teams of college students with diverse backgrounds and academic majors exploring solutions toward an equitable clean energy future through building science. Now in its sixth year, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have utilized this competition to provide hands-on … [continued]
NREL Releases Open-Source OCHRE To Study Emerging Controllable Technologies Within the Home and the Impacts on the Grid Homes across the country are incorporating new technologies, such as energy-efficient heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, electric vehicles, rooftop solar, and energy storage systems. The new devices are often equipped with … [continued]
More than 160 communities in the United States are now using Solar Automated Permit Processing Plus (SolarAPP+™), a free, online software platform for local governments that standardizes, streamlines, and automates the solar permitting process. The platform has helped local governments approve more than 32,800 projects, saving more than 33,000 hours of … [continued]
DOE Concludes 2023 by Celebrating Billions in Historic Clean Energy Investments, Successful Energy Cost Saving Programs, and Workforce Training Initiatives that will Boost our Clean Energy Economy WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) made monumental strides in advancing the clean energy goals of the Biden-Harris Administration. … [continued]
Funding from the President’s Inflation Reduction Act Will Broaden the Energy Efficiency Workforce, by Training and Certifying Workers to Conduct Energy Audits and Surveys WASHINGTON, D.C. — In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is now accepting applications for competitive funding to upskill … [continued]
Rainfall can wash away many things, but even a steady downpour may not be enough to clean pollen from solar panels. That is the conclusion of researchers who examined the effects of pollen on the performance of five utility-scale solar plants in North Carolina. The scientists, headed by a team … [continued]
Latest in Series of Journal Articles on Landfilled Materials Quantifies Problem, Details Opportunities Piles of cardboard and paper littering America’s landfills represent $4 billion in lost economic value, according to a new analysis by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). “That value is lost … [continued]
Five Teams Win CONCEPT Phase of Community Energy Innovation Prize College students have big ideas. And a few of those big ideas—focused on extending the benefits of clean energy to underserved communities—were just rewarded. On Dec. 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the five winners of the … [continued]
President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Funding Available to Help States, Territories, and Localities Adopt and Implement Latest Innovative Building Energy Codes WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces up to $530 … [continued]
