energy research laboratory News
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U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to Visit NREL on Aug. 24
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Wednesday, August 24 at 2:30 p.m. The Secretary General will learn about NREL’s International efforts including meeting key staff and researchers who contributed to the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on ...
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NREL Details Great Potential for Floating PV Systems
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers estimate that installing floating solar photovoltaics on the more than 24,000 man-made U.S. reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of the nation’s annual electricity production. Their findings, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, reveal for the first time the potential for floating PV to produce ...
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NREL Launches Electrification Futures Study Series
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is spearheading the Electrification Futures Study, a research collaboration to explore the impacts of widespread electrification in all U.S. economic sectors commercial and residential buildings, transportation, and industry.Over the next two years, NREL and its research partners Electric Power Research Institute, Evolved ...
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Johnson Controls Teams Up With University of Wisconsin System in Energy Storage Research
Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI), the world's leading automotive battery supplier, is helping to position Wisconsin as a worldwide leader in energy storage. The company today announced it is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "Between our scientists and the talented ...
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Partnership between Johnson Controls and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee earns 2013 Gold Edison Award for innovation
Johnson Controls, a global diversified company in the building and automotive industries, is a 2013 Gold Award Winner by the internationally renowned Edison Awards for its recent groundbreaking collaboration with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM). This distinguished award symbolizes the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, inspiring creative minds to ...
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Changing of the guard
Back in Washington city itself, the seats were filled at the Caribou Coffee shop a block west of the White House – that informal political center of the American system where meetings on the future of the country can be conveniently held without being recorded on the White House logs. But it was not the grand poobahs of policy that are holding court now, but the headhunters. The quiet ...
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DOE Announces $18 Million to Streamline Commercialization of Clean Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (July 14) announced $18.4 million through the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) for seven national laboratory projects with the goal of getting more clean energy technologies to the marketplace. The selected national laboratories will address barriers, gaps, and root causes of commercialization challenges for emerging clean energy technologies. ...
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Lab receives an additional $40.3 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment act funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations. This new funding is in addition to ...
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ITRI Wins R&D 100 Awards for Fifth Year in a Row
ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, will accept six 2012 R&D 100 Awards in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 1, 2012. ITRI was selected as a winner for the fifth consecutive year, collecting six awards for the following advanced technologies in their respective categories: Lignoxy?, ...
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DOE Laboratories Sign Memorandum of Understanding For Innovative Coal Research
Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories with energy research expertise are joining forces to pursue research on new ways to use coal to create innovative high-value products. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed today (3/6) by representatives of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) at NETL's Pittsburgh site. DOE ...
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NREL selected to join Europe’s DERlab
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been selected as a new member of the nonprofit Association of European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab). DERlab is an international association of leading laboratories and research institutions in the field of distributed energy resources equipment and systems. NREL was selected by DERlab in ...
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Berkeley Lab awarded $15.9 million in recovery act funding for new Net-Zero Energy Buildings national user facility
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will build and operate a new National User Facility for Net-Zero Energy Buildings using a competitively selected award of $15.9 million in stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. This facility will contain a set of test beds for building systems integration designed to address key technical challenges for net-zero energy buildings. The Department ...
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5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum to Focus on EMEA/Latin America/Asia Pacific
The 5th edition of the Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, September 4-6, 2017 in Barcelona, will focus on microgrid advances, case studies and applications in EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The emphasis is on optimizing the business model for a range of microgrid deployments, maximizing the use of renewable and distributed energy resources, and sharing real-world case studies in both ...
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NREL Unveils Open-Source Distributed Generation Market Demand Model
After years of development, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the open-source dGen model, marking a new era since the model launched in 2016. Public users can access model methodology and instructions, run the code, and receive technical support from the dGen team. dGen simulates customer decisions about adopting and using solar, wind, and storage technologies for ...
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NREL Collaboration Boosts Potential for CdTe Solar Cells
A critical milestone has been reached in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell technology, helping pave the way for solar energy to directly compete with electricity generated by conventional energy sources. Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collaborated with researchers at Washington State University and the University of Tennessee to improve the ...
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Powering the Future: NREL Research Finds Opportunities for Breakthrough Battery Designs
In the 200 years after its invention, the extraordinary battery has undergone significant evolutions to meet modern applications. These self-contained energy sources are key to our increasingly connected society, powering our communication and transportation networks. With the shift to renewable energy, a new era of electrification is on the horizon, supported in large part by the breakthrough ...
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NREL Reveals Potential for Capturing Waste Heat via Nanotubes
A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The research could help guide the manufacture of thermoelectric devices based on either single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films or composites containing these ...
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Vanadium Flow Battery Technology Available for Licensing from PNNL
Technology designed to bolster resilience of the electric grid and provide a way to store large amounts of energy from renewable sources is available, thanks to researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The research involves vanadium redox flow batteries—large batteries designed to store massive amounts of energy for long periods. These batteries hold the ...
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Biden- Harris Administration Invests $60 Million to Expand Clean, Renewable Geothermal Energy
In support of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (Feb 13) announced the selection of three projects that will receive up to $60 million to demonstrate the efficacy and scalability of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Funded by the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the pilot projects will use innovative technology and a variety of ...
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Alliance formed to commercialize new technologies for converting biomass to clean, diesel fuel
The Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), a non-profit organization, announced the formation of an alliance of industry, academic and government organizations to build a pilot demonstration plant in Toledo, Ohio for the efficient and economical conversion of waste biomass to clean, diesel fuel. This new alliance includes organizations from around the United States including Red Lion ...
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