Commercial and Industrial Partnerships
NREL works with partners in the manufacturing, chemical, and power industries to decarbonize products and processes, including building and transportation electrification.
Manufacturing
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NREL partnership projects find the most energy-efficient and sustainable solutions for manufacturing products and processes. Partner with NREL to:
- Support low-carbon energy research, invest in renewables, and apply standardized energy-efficiency protocols
- Advance research associated with bio-based materials in textiles and consumer goods as well as upcycling strategies for today's plastics
- Improve power electronic devices and reliability for stable grid connection of variable loads
- Optimize manufacturing supply/value chains through detailed cost and sensitivity analyses around all phases of a product's life cycle.
Chemicals
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NREL and its partners reduce organizations' carbon footprints through ongoing carbon conversion and utilization research and plastics upcycling. Work with NREL to:
- Advance research in plastics upcycling, bio-based products, and waste valorization
- Address plastic pollution by joining Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment (BOTTLE™) plastics upcycling consortium
- Develop a biorefining process to produce sustainable aviation fuel compatible with jet engines and capable of supporting net-zero-carbon flight
- Develop energy-transition strategies for traditional energy companies to incorporate alternative energy sources that meet emission goals.
Power
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Partners work with NREL on renewable power generation, innovations in electricity transmission and distribution, energy load management, and enablers such as storage technologies, including hydrogen. Work alongside NREL on:
- Building and transportation electrification, including emerging technology assessments for utilities
- Integrated utility system modeling capabilities to support utilities with low-carbon electricity strategies
- Strategy development and planning for land-based and offshore wind, including wind-to-hydrogen production.
Learn more about how to work with us through NREL's research program areas.
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