Bioenergy News
Explore our archive of Bioenergy news stories.
Dec. 19, 2024
DOE Office of Science-funded programs connect NREL researchers with students and faculty from historically underrepresented institutions, expanding the pool of American universities training the next generation of scientists and building research capacity at these institutions.
Dec. 17, 2024
In this latest Manufacturing Masterminds Q&A, Kat Knauer shares how a backyard fire ant invasion led her to science, what a chief technology officer does, and how the BOTTLE consortium is working with Amazon, Patagonia, and other companies to design more planet-friendly plastics.
Oct. 23, 2024
With National Bioenergy Day 2024 upon us, NREL reflects on some of the team's scientific discoveries over the past year that have helped strengthen the bioeconomy.
Oct. 14, 2024
This summer, NREL postdocs and early-career staff participated in multiple events around the globe, including in Italy, Indonesia, Singapore, and stateside in Golden, Colorado.
Oct. 10, 2024
How do researchers examine the relationships between various factors within a given system, how they could change, and how those changes ultimately lead to different behaviors in the system over longer periods of time? The answers to those questions may lie within a sophisticated modeling method known as system dynamics.
Sept. 30, 2024
Invizyne is at the stage where it is preparing an IPO, the first company part of the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL(TM) (GCxN) program to do so.
Sept. 20, 2024
Barriers that are currently preventing the use of greater percentages of biomass-based diesel fuel blended into petroleum diesel have been identified, along with strategies to overcome them.
Sept. 16, 2024
The third cohort of West Gate, NREL's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program, includes innovations ranging from pumping carbon dioxide into pit lakes to helping solar arrays adapt to a passing cloud.
Sept. 16, 2024
A novel DOE Office of Science program builds bridges between minority-serving institutions and national laboratories.
Aug. 22, 2024
Researchers at NREL see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in landfills at the end of their useful life.
Aug. 20, 2024
The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced approximately $11.5 million in funding through its new Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) program. Three researchers from NREL are among the inaugural class of selectees.
July 11, 2024
Since 2019, NREL senior scientist Cara Lubner and her team have made considerable progress toward mapping the energy landscape of an enzymatic reaction.
July 2, 2024
Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass Founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN).
June 10, 2024
Realizing the need and opportunity to probe deeper into the mysteries of the chemical reactions that sustain photosynthesis and enable light-driven ammonia production and hydrogen catalysis, NREL formed the Advanced Spin Resonance Facility.
May 22, 2024
One method organisms control and manipulate energy for cellular metabolism and survival is the focus of an award-winning NREL research team: flavin-based electron bifurcation.
May 14, 2024
A research team led by NREL developed a conversion pathway to produce formic acid from CO₂ with high energy efficiency and durability while using renewable electricity.
May 9, 2024
On its path to opening a facility designed to turn agriculture residue into a scalable biofuel business, SAFFiRE Renewables, LLC plans to break ground on its pilot plant near Liberal, Kansas, in late 2024.
April 30, 2024
NREL was recently selected as one of 16 teams to research enhanced production of geologic hydrogen by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program.
April 25, 2024
Three NREL labs were awarded green certifications by My Green Lab late last year.
April 18, 2024
Together, BOTTLE's upstream approach and WaterPACT's downstream approach to addressing the plastic pollution problem will enable a better future for humanity and our environment.
March 7, 2024
As a polymer scientist and the chief technology officer of the NREL-led BOTTLE consortium, Knauer is responsible for helping solve one of the world's greatest challenges--plastic pollution.
Feb. 29, 2024
Over the next 12 months, BOTTLE will scale the process to produce several pounds of PHA fiber, which The North Face will test and evaluate for use in its product lines.
Feb. 29, 2024
A next-generation biorefinery model holds the potential to produce biofuels and chemicals through a process that researchers say has proven to be more efficient in converting plant biomass.
Feb. 28, 2024
Pathways to sustainable biofuels are within view as computational models solve key challenges.
Feb. 27, 2024
Senior polymer science researcher and group manager
Nicholas Rorrer currently leads a team of NREL researchers working to replace the heavy, resource-intensive steel parts in vehicles with recyclable carbon fiber composites.
Feb. 13, 2024
DOE tapped NREL to support a new $15 million research effort to improve the measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon dioxide removal technologies, an industry with the potential to help mitigate climate change by addressing existing carbon emissions and removing them from the atmosphere.
Feb. 8, 2024
A research team led by NREL recently received funding for their project that will study and model the behavior of microbes in bioreactors and reasons for potential failures at industrial scale.
Feb. 1, 2024
This year's AlgaePrize finalist teams include students from high schools, community colleges, and universities from 11 states across the United States and Puerto Rico.
Jan. 29, 2024
A cross-disciplinary research team is gathering meticulous fuel chemistry data to equip the aviation industry with an ultra-detailed sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) combustion simulation. Powered by supercomputers, the "virtual jet engine" can predict how SAF performs during flight and provide insights on how to tune it to maximize its safety and performance.
Jan. 5, 2024
A multidisciplinary approach has enabled researchers with NREL to quantitatively define the relative positioning and arrangement of the polymers in Populus wood and to create a computer model that details the findings.
