Saudi Arabia Turns To U.S. For Help With Solar Power

Mike Dooraghi works with engineers from K.A.CARE to install a rotating shadowband radiometer at the Al-Uyaynah Research Station near Riyadh. (image credit: Steve Wilcox/NREL)

Saudi Arabia is working with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory for training and expertise in measuring its solar resource. Read more →

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Giving The U.S. Navy Help With Cutting Energy Usage

Navy solar panels

A national laboratory is doing its part to help provide energy security and reduce energy costs for the military as an energy advisor to DoD and, in this case, the U.S. Navy. Read more →

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National Wind Technology Center Tests Supersized Turbines

NREL Wind Center

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with their industry partners, are advancing a more sustainable energy future at the NWTC. Read more →

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One Of The Most Green Data Centers In The World

Steve Hammond, director of NREL's Computational Science Center, stands in front of air-cooled racks in the high performance computing (HPC) data center in the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). The rest of the system will be built out this summer using warm-water liquid cooling to reach an annualized average power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.06 or better. (image via NREL)

Meet the first HPC data center dedicated solely to advancing energy systems integration, renewable energy research, and energy efficiency technologies. Read more →

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Why The AP’s ‘Dirty Solar’ Story Is Wildly Misleading

solar manufacturing

Forget what the AP said; including hazardous waste disposal in an analysis of solar power's greenhouse-gas emissions hardly changes anything. Read more →

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EVs And Grid Integration Occur At Colorado Testing Facility

NREL Vehicle Systems Engineer Mike Simpson connects a direct current (DC) battery from an electric vehicle to a grid charging system that supplements the grid with stored electricity from the vehicle. (image credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory talks about its Vehicle Testing and Integration Facility that works at connecting electric cars and the grid. Read more →

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NREL Green Building Influences Others By Example

Energy-efficient features found in NREL’s Research Support Facility, including daylighting, are being replicated in other buildings across the country. (image credit: Dennis Schroeder)

National Renewable Energy Laboratory reports on how one of its greenest buildings is having a ripple effect in the building industry. Read more →

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Solar Energy Rejects: Silicon Wafers That Don’t Pass Muster

A PV wafer emerges from the Silicon Photovoltaic Wafer Screening System. This tool tests a pre-selection of wafers for high fracture strength, improving the yield of silicon solar cells by preventing breakage during cell fabrication. Image Credit: Dennis Schroeder

National Renewable Energy Laboratory reports on a machine that helps identify and spit out unusable silicon wafers destined to become photovoltaic cells. Read more →

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Bama Wins At Football, But What About Wind Tech?

National Collegiate Wind Competition

The National Renewable Energy Lab is looking for teams of undergraduates ready to mix it up in the National Collegiate Wind Competition. Read more →

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Solar Efficiency Record: OMG, Government Helped!

Manufacture high-efficiency Solar Junction concentrator solar cells. (image via Daniel Derkacs/Solar Junction)

That 44 percent solar efficiency record? It took government and private enterprise working together to make it happen. Read more →

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