Thermophotovoltaic Cell Is 40% Efficient
Higher efficiency than a steam turbine, no moving parts. A new frontier in renewable energy is created.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Leader in Buildings Research Receives Prestigious Black Engineer of the Year STEM Award
Roderick Jackson Follows His Passion for Science, Students, and Social Justice At the age of 3, Roderick Jackson, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) laboratory program manager for buildings research, landed his first job. He was tasked with picking up straight nails as a member of the framing crew for his … [continued]
Building a Solar-Powered Future
Solar Futures Study Draws Insights From Across NREL’s Expertise and Tools To Deliver Detailed Analysis of Solar Energy’s Future in United States The next 30 years of solar energy is likely to look very different than the past 30. Photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power are likely to continue to … [continued]
Resilient Systems, Q&A With Jordan Cox: Expect the Unexpected With Resilient Systems
A resilient system can withstand disruptions, mitigate potential losses, and recover rapidly. Planning for an unexpected event is a significant challenge, but one that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) researchers in the Resilient Systems Design and Engineering Group within the Energy Security and Resilience Center are working to address. … [continued]
Buy An EV & Fulfill Your New Year’s Resolutions
Will you pledge to reduce your carbon footprint and to be a good global citizen when you make your New Year’s resolutions? Buying an EV can help you achieve those goals.
New Innovations Bolster American Workforce & Advance Building Envelope Retrofits
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced 10 winners for the first phase of the Envelope Retrofit Opportunities for Building Optimization Technologies (E-ROBOT) Prize, a $5 million competition focused on fast-tracking advanced robotics solutions for building envelope retrofits. Each finalist will win a $200,000 prize and move on to Phase 2, where they will build a prototype of their solution and compete … [continued]
Banding Together: How Aggregation Helps Cities Buy Renewables at Scale
By Yuning Liu & Mia Reback In March 2021, 24 local governments in Maryland joined together on a plan to purchase enough renewable energy to power more than 246,000 homes a year. They did this by issuing a joint request for proposal (RFP) through the Baltimore Regional Cooperative Purchasing Committee (BRCPC) … [continued]
Argonne Study On Costs & Benefits Of New Transportation Technologies The Most Comprehensive To Date
A new Argonne study offers the most complete understanding yet of the costs of owning and operating a vehicle and how those costs vary by powertrain, from the conventional to the cutting-edge. Advanced vehicle technologies are sometimes more expensive to purchase than conventional technologies but often pay for themselves in reduced … [continued]
Planning A Wind Energy Project? New WINDExchange Resources Can Help
Local jobs. Increased tax revenues. Income for landowners. Clean, homegrown energy.
Lower Battery Costs, High Value of Backup Power Drive Distributed Storage Deployment
Fourth Report in NREL’s Storage Futures Study Uses Distributed Generation Market Demand Model To Estimate Behind-the-Meter Storage Capacity, Identify Drivers of Customer Adoption
