All Posts Tagged With: "NREL"
NREL Battery Testing Capabilities Get a Boost
The Department of Energy is looking to help the U.S. battery industry with a simple goal — to mass produce better batteries domestically while addressing safety, affordability, life, and performance. As a result, more work and funding for battery research is coming to the NREL in Golden.
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NREL Sets the Bar for Office Building Energy Use
The Research Support Facility will be a showcase for engineering net zero energy office design. “We want to take energy efficiency to Main Street,” said NREL engineer Shanti Pless. “The key is to make it a requirement and integrate energy efficiency early in the design process.”
29Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Incentives Crucial to Renewables Growth
States with strong renewable energy portfolio standards or goals tend to outperform others when it comes to adding solar, wind, biomass and other emerging renewable energy forms, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
25Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE, NREL “Go Big” with 1.5-MW R&D Turbine
The large-scale wind turbine, the first unit fully owned by DOE, will serve as a platform for research projects aimed at improving the performance of wind technology and lowering the costs of wind energy. Previously, only smaller wind turbines were installed at the NWTC. View the time-lapse video of the installation to the right!
12Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
PV Mapping Project Launched by DOE and NREL
The project will provide a Web-based resource for users to easily understand the current status and past progress of the PV industry from the data that show current and recent trends of the PV market. Additionally, users may add their own PV installation data, browse PV data entered by others, and view statistics.
2Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
New CU-Boulder - NREL Institute For
Renewables Announces Plans
A national search will be conducted for RASEI’s director. In addition to creating the resources to attract a top candidate to lead the new institute, CU-Boulder plans to designate as many as 10 new faculty hires to RASEI over the next several years, with exact levels of support contingent upon the Colorado economy and the university’s budget.
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Largest Wind R&D Study Underway at NREL
NREL and Siemens Power Generation “flipped the switch” starting the blades on a Siemens 2.3 megawatt wind turbine installed as part of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) for testing turbine aerodynamics, structure and reliability.
25Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
TechWatch –
NREL’s Research Tool Aims to Reduce PV Cost
Thin film technologies are spurring innovative new solar applications, such as modules that double as roof shingles, and semi-transparent modules that can be integrated into building walls or roofs. It has the potential to dramatically increase the generation of clean electricity.
29Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NREL, Industry Work to Halve Building Energy Use
“This program is unique because it involves the energy end-users,” explained NREL Senior Engineer Paul Torcellini. “Using a flipped model, we are engaging energy consumers from a business point of view.”
23Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Two Years Later, Greensburg is Officially Green — with NREL’s Help
With technical assistance from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, the city of Greensburg, John Deere Renewable Energy and other partners will open a wind farm generating 12.5 MW of electricity, enough to power 4,000 homes.
12May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Chu Says DOE Will Speed Up Funding Process
“This is a very sick economy. If it takes four years to get a new set of loans out, either the patient will have recovered by himself — or he will have died.” He also pledged the DOE would drastically reduce the amount of paperwork required for the loan process.
4May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NREL to Receive $110 Million in Fed
Stimulus Money
Upated at 2 pm: The facility finally gets the word on just how much funding will be heading its way thanks to the economic stimulus package — $10 million toward its wind-power testing facility and $100 million for construction and upgrades, plus the opportunity to apply for grants from another $83 million earmarked for wind-research projects.
29Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Abound Solar Goes Commercial Scale in Longmont — (don’t try this at home)
The company formerly known as AVA Solar touts an equipment-driven process in which its proprietary sheets of glass are turned into solar panels in under two hours and at a cost of less than $1/watt. Abound says 500 employees will be in place by the end of the year.
17Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NREL Experts to Help States on Renewables Regulation
“To accomplish something on the ground, you have to have experts on the ground,” said Mary Werner, the Lab’s executive manager of integrated deployment. “Being there in real time is a critical piece in getting a community — or an entire state — to move in the same direction towards energy goals.”
1Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Thank you Govenor Ritter for helping place Colorado among the Nations leaders in Renewable energy! 
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