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Making Solar Work for Everybody — How NREL Helps Envision A More Just Energy System

Analysts Share Tools for Communities, Tribes, and Jurisdictions Looking for Ways To Make Solar Energy Meet Their Needs Solar energy can provide more than light and heat. It can provide opportunities for renters to develop equity through community solar projects, for example, or create avenues for workforce development, lower utility … [continued]

$4 Million Opportunity to Advance Floating Offshore Wind Power

At a bilateral meeting today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and Innovation Fund Denmark announced an intent to release a $4.2 million opportunity to advance floating offshore wind energy systems toward cost-effective commercialization and wide-scale deployment. This announcement builds on a Memorandum of Understanding between DOE, … [continued]

To date, the Solar Prize has awarded $29.8 million in cash prizes and technical support vouchers through seven rounds of the prize.

Solar Prize Round 7 Semifinalists Bring Bold, Bright Ideas to Competition

20 Teams Win $50,000 and Move on to Set! Contest A new crop of semifinalists has been selected to move on to the Set! Contest in the American-Made Solar Prize Round 7. Twenty teams from across the country were awarded cash prizes for their innovative solutions for making the solar industry … [continued]

American-Made Prize Accelerates Community Solar Initiatives Across the US

Round 2 of the Community Power Accelerator Prize Names 25 Phase 1 Winning Teams The American-Made Community Power Accelerator Prize, now in its second round, is a $10 million prize competition designed to fast-track the efforts of new, emerging, and expanding solar developers and co-developers. Throughout the competition, teams are … [continued]

NREL’s Expert Contributions to Renowned Climate Change Assessment Strengthen Leaders’ Ability To Make Informed Decisions

“The world says, once we were separate and now we must move in unison,” the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) begins. The landmark publication, released approximately every four years, evaluates the state of the science and current impacts of climate change in the United States. It serves as a mechanism for experts … [continued]