A Faster, Cheaper Way To Give Solar Panels A Clean Bill Of Health
NREL is prototyping a new device that could cut time and cost for inspections of solar installation after potentially damaging weather.
Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO)
How Do We Inventory the Materials Needed To Build Wind & Solar Farms?
New Database Quantifies What the Country Needs To Meet Its Big Clean Energy Goals
New Method Addresses Problem With Perovskite Solar Cells
NREL Researchers Provide Growth Approach That Boosts Efficiency, Stability A new approach to manufacturing perovskite solar cells has addressed previous problems and yielded devices with high efficiency and excellent stability, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report in the new issue of the journal Science. Developing highly stable and … [continued]
Researchers Bring More Reliable Electricity to Puerto Rican Microgrids
Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering with local organizations, nonprofits and universities to build resilience into independent microgrids
Cybersecurity in the Energy Industry
Leadership from the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office met with cybersecurity researchers at NREL in July 2022. Saleem (center), along with Jordan Peterson, Ryan Cryar, and William Hupp, helped bring together diverse energy sector stakeholders to evaluate research priorities for improving cybersecurity of distributed generation on the grid. In July … [continued]
Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium Aims To Reduce Costs, Speed Deployment of Low-Carbon Thin-Film Solar Technologies
$20 Million Going To Support CdTe Research and Development
Biden–Harris Administration: $56 Million to Advance Solar, Lower Costs
New Investments Will Build on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Bolster Clean Energy Supply Chains, Increase Energy Security, and Lower Electricity Bills
Funding Notice: Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale (FARMS)
Office: Solar Energy Technologies Office FOA number: DE-FOA-002697 Link to apply: Apply on EERE Exchange FOA Amount: $8 million On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale (FARMS) funding opportunity, which will award $8 million in funding for projects … [continued]
How NREL Is Extending the Lifetime of Solar Modules
NREL-Led Consortium Studies Why Solar Modules Fail in the Field and How To Extend Their Life What makes for a good solar module? A few things are obvious: high energy yield, low cost, and reliable in the field. Reliability plays a huge role in the lifetime costs and performance of … [continued]
Understanding the Impact of Wind Conditions on Concentrating Solar Power Structures
NREL Embarks on Two-Year, SETO-Funded Computational Modeling Project High wind loads increase structural design costs of concentrating solar power (CSP) collector structures, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs. In a new two-year project, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work with the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency … [continued]
