Energy Storage News
Nov. 14, 2024
Multiple industry sectors are beginning to harness hydrogen as a nearly emission-free pathway to generate power and fuel and to address a key challenge facing future energy systems: energy storage.
Nov. 13, 2024
Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers with NREL.
Oct. 30, 2024
Live power experiments using NREL’s ARIES platform solve future energy challenges in the present.
Oct. 22, 2024
During the July 2024 Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County, California, NREL and the U.S. Forest Service successfully piloted several renewable energy solutions that put their sustainable firefighting operations ideas into practice.
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.
Sept. 30, 2024
From current on-road vehicles to future electrified aircraft, the safety and reliability of energy storage systems is critical across battery applications.
Sept. 26, 2024
What is the best way to store energy until it is needed?
Finding the answer to this question and others surrounding energy storage is at the heart of Nate Blair's work as the group manager for NREL's Distributed Energy Systems and Storage Analysis team.
July 11, 2024
Using electricity generated by offshore wind turbines as one pathway to split water to produce clean hydrogen may make economic sense, particularly along the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico, according to researchers at NREL.
June 28, 2024
Bitter cold temperatures. Unrelenting heat. Power outages that last for weeks. NREL researchers are planning for extreme weather by calculating what it will take to make the situation survivable.
June 20, 2024
From research to life in the Antarctica research stations, diesel fuel provides almost all of the necessary power. The fuel is shipped to Antarctica and either flown or trucked to the South Pole, an expensive proposition that could be greatly reduced using wind and solar.
June 17, 2024
Tina Ortega's connection to and reverence for the natural world inspired her to seek out a career that would help protect the environment.
June 14, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Program honored five NREL researchers for their outstanding achievements at the 2024 Annual Merit Review and Peer Evaluation Meeting.
April 22, 2024
NASA and NREL created a device that causes an internal short circuit inside the layers of a battery cell, providing information that allows NASA to meet its stringent battery safety requirements.
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 28, 2024
Superheated sand provides one answer to the problem of long-term energy storage. Researchers at NREL built a prototype that proved the technology works. A larger-scale version is the next step.
March 8, 2024
Alec Schnabel is working to advance one especially powerful part of marine energy technologies: their electronic guts.
Feb. 29, 2024
The REopt team at NREL has significantly enhanced the publicly available REopt web tool and its underlying open-source code, providing more powerful capabilities.
Feb. 27, 2024
Tools help energy leaders learn essential skills in modeling power systems and provide a "how-to" guide on operating and maintaining battery energy storage systems.
Feb. 21, 2024
Participants in a workshop organized by NREL agree on the importance of mitigating degradation rates for the continuing rollout of clean technologies.
Feb. 1, 2024
In a new study, NREL researchers analyzed the benefits and drawbacks of promising marine carbon management techniques.
