Publicly Accessible, User-Friendly Data Set Answers Buildings Energy Analysts' Questions

NREL released a new data set consisting of 10 residential impact measure profiles for heat pumps, envelope improvements, heat pump water heaters, and other electrical appliances. Read about the end-use load profiles for the U.S. building stock.

Data Sets Provide Sophisticated Hourly Views of Future Power System Scenarios

NREL used HPC resources to model the expansion of the U.S. bulk power system, resulting in hourly emission, cost, and operational data sets useful for long-term decision-making.

Optimized Band Offset Enables Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

NREL collaborated with the University of Toledo to confirm a design strategy for perovskite solar cells using density-functional theory calculations generated by NREL's Eagle supercomputer.

Inverse Polymer Design Identifies Bio-Based Polyethylene Terephthalate Replacements

In search of a sustainable replacement for polyethylene terephthalate, NREL combined machine learning and molecular simulation to narrow candidates with the desired performance.

Discovery of Novel Contact Materials for Cadmium Telluride Thin-Film Solar Cells

A computational search discovered a new p-type back contact for thin-film cadmium telluride solar cells, which will improve carrier lifetime and conversion efficiency.

First-Ever Simulations of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Tank Fueling Processes

NREL's Eagle supercomputer enabled rapid computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of thermal and flow fields inside medium- and heavy-duty vehicle tanks during fueling processes.

Simulations Tune Offshore Wind System Models and Predict Hydrodynamic Performance

To improve offshore wind system design, NREL performed three validation studies using high-fidelity CFD simulations of the DeepCwind floating wind platform.

Revealing Ideal Temporal and Regional U.S. Coastal Conditions for Wave Energy Planning

NREL and other U.S. Department of Energy labs simulated wave climates using the Eagle supercomputer with an unstructured, nested grid modeling approach, validating the results against buoy measurements. Read about the Wave Hindcast Data Set.

Augmenting Exascale Reacting Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes

NREL researchers used the Eagle supercomputer to augment the Exascale Computing Program's flow codes with highly robust solution algorithms for incorporating moving simulation domains.

Data Sets Inform Scenarios for Puerto Rico's Path to 100% Renewable Energy

For the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Study, researchers developed solar, wind, and hydropower data sets for determining resource potential, capacity factor, technical potential, and more. Read how these powerful insights propelled the PR100 study forward.

Modeling High-Pressure Membranes for Water Desalination via Reverse Osmosis

For high-accuracy molecular dynamics simulations, researchers with the National Alliance for Water Innovation used the Eagle supercomputer to compare polyamide reverse osmosis membranes fabricated via industry-leading techniques. Read how the model could help break through water treatment system inefficiencies.