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]
Louisiana pursues a total of three offshore wind opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico to break up the red state – blue state breakdown.
One of the largest studies to date finds the current generation of EV owners drive far fewer miles than owners of gas vehicles, translating to lower emissions savings from EVs. A new study from researchers at the George Washington University suggests that emissions savings from electric vehicles (EV) might be … [continued]
NREL Analyst Luke Lavin Discusses Pitfalls and Opportunities of Managed Charging Approaches This installment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Tell Me Something Grid series features Luke Lavin, a member of NREL’s Grid Planning and Analysis Center. Lavin discusses analysis of different approaches to electric vehicle (EV) managed charging to support the … [continued]
In partnership with General Electric (GE), and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) successfully installed and deployed a device called a spinner lidar on the hub — the structure that connects blades to … [continued]
NREL Work Offers Insight Into Measurement, Degradation Trends for Use in Models
A new material could help make clean energy technologies, like the tidal energy turbines pictured here, even more sustainable.
New Collaboration Balances Sustainability and Profitability of Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling In our pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, the environmental and supply chain impacts of the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles should not be overlooked. While researchers around the world are determined to increase the lifetime value of batteries with … [continued]
NREL’s Interactive Dashboard Is Changing the Game When It Comes to Disseminating Efficiency and Electrification Modeling Package Results
Can Cooling Methods of the 1800s Advance Energy Storage Needs for a Clean Energy Future?
