Grid Modernization News

Sep 10, 2025, 10:43 by Anna Squires

How will the world meet rising energy demands? NREL researchers have an answer in the form of the Ultra-Low Inductance Smart power module, nicknamed ULIS.

Sep 4, 2025, 13:37 by Julia Thomas

The Energy Storing Efficient Air Conditioner is a game-changing technology developed by NREL in collaboration with Blue Frontier Inc. that can lower a building’s electricity bills and help reduce demand on the grid.

Sep 3, 2025, 11:37 by Rebecca Martineau

NREL-synthesized BaCd₂P₂ quantum dots demonstrate promising performance with Earth-abundant materials.

Sep 3, 2025, 11:33 by Aadil Latif

Aadil Latif discusses the different eras of distribution modeling tools and exciting developments ahead.

Sep 2, 2025, 13:54 by Dana Strongin

Plug and process load reduction strategies are key to intelligent whole building systems operation.

Aug 27, 2025, 14:51 by Alyssa Bersine

NREL's computing capabilities could help prevent wildfires caused by fallen power lines.

Aug 26, 2025, 13:55 by Wayne Hicks

The Combustion Institute, which dates to 1954, designates fellows based on peer recognition for outstanding contributions to the field of combustion, whether in research or in applications.

Aug 26, 2025, 12:10 by Alyssa Bersine

NREL brings together specialists from across the country to discuss cement and concrete for its third annual critical technologies meeting.

Aug 25, 2025, 11:00 by User Not Found

Application period opens for annual marine energy and hydropower competitions, which challenge college students to find real-world solutions and explore career pathways.

Aug 20, 2025, 12:04 by Natasha Headland

Researchers discovered that charge waves called plasmons can survive—and even thrive—in a “bad” metal, challenging long-held beliefs about conductivity and coherence in quantum materials.

Aug 19, 2025, 11:48 by Harrison Dreves

More than 50 experts gathered at NREL to consider how incorporating AI into materials synthesis, characterization, and modeling could unlock new insights and speed new technologies to market.

Aug 14, 2025, 08:00 by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy

New tool lets researchers and partners cut prototyping costs, wait times, and design barriers for ocean energy technologies and more.

Aug 13, 2025, 11:34 by Justin Daugherty

Promising new pathways for manipulating excitons and light can benefit optoelectronics.

Aug 12, 2025, 13:46 by Natasha Headland

A new study demonstrates how magnons, a type of wave found in magnetic systems, can manipulate interactions between excitons—uncharged “quasiparticles” that carry energy.

Jul 31, 2025, 12:13 by Julia Thomas

This month's Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science Early-Career Spotlight features Hilary Egan, who has been a data scientist at NREL since 2020.

Jul 30, 2025, 11:48 by Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy

Transportation researchers from NREL received awards at the 2025 Annual Merit Review meeting for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office.

Jul 30, 2025, 09:32 by Julia Medeiros Coad

From Sugar Land, Texas, to Chenega, Alaska, NREL is advancing affordable, community-driven energy solutions across the nation through the DOE Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program.

Jul 29, 2025, 14:44 by Justin Daugherty

Innovators bring exciting ideas to the fourth cohort of West Gate—NREL’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program.

Jul 22, 2025, 11:09 by User Not Found

The Alliance for Sustainable Energy announced the appointment of Jud Virden, Ph.D., as director of NREL and president of the Alliance, which manages the laboratory for the Department of Energy. Virden will officially join NREL in this role on Oct. 1, 2025.

Jul 22, 2025, 09:34 by Kerrin Jeromin

NREL and Google teamed up to host a hackathon, bringing together researchers from nine DOE national laboratories to explore and leverage Google's generative artificial intelligence and large language model tools to address an array of critical challenges related to energy limitations for U.S. data centers.