Welcome to NREL
Meet the National Renewable Energy Laboratory – an organization tasked with transforming energy since 1977. NREL is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 17 national research laboratories, and the only one solely dedicated to securing America’s energy future through renewable energy and energy efficiency. At NREL, we continue to anticipate emerging energy challenges and offer solutions through research, innovation, analysis, partners, and people.
NREL's Sustainable Campus Overview
The high-performance buildings across the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) South Table Mountain campus incorporate a number of state-of-the art energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, making them models for sustainability. Each building, designed to meet the Gold or Platinum standards of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) program, brings NREL closer to developing the campus of the future.
Dr. Thomas Foust - National Bioenergy Center
(Conrad) Good morning and welcome to Farm Factor on AGam in Kansas. I'm your host Conrad Kabus. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL is located in Golden, Colorado. It is the United States primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is a government owned, contractor operated facility and it's funded through the United States Department of Energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has a number of PV research capabilities, including research and development testing and deployment. The laboratory's campus houses several facilities dedicated to PV research. A representative from the laboratory came to speak at the annual energy symposium at the Kansas State Student Union where he discussed future ideas and initiatives that could help with the industry.
NREL: The Nerve Center for Renewable Research
George Douglas of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory tells Susan McGinnis about the different research projects that NREL scientists are working on and discusses Gov. Bill Ritter's performance on energy issues.
Douglas shows Susan NREL's science and technology facility. He says it's deigned to help solar cell makers improve the efficiency of their cells so that they convert more sunlight into electricity, thereby decreasing the cost.
NREL is the Department of Energy's primary research center for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Its biggest program is in the national center for photovoltaics. The next largest is the biomass energy program, research into turning nonedible plant matter into liquid fuel, The third largest area of research is in home energy efficiency.
NREL has been in Colorado for more than 30 years, Douglas says one of the best things about being in Colorado is that it's conducive to studying solar, wind and plant material that can be converted into fuel. The state has an abundance of those materials. The wide variety of traditional fossil fuels in Colorado also makes it possible to study how different forms of energy can be integrated.
Douglas says Ritter has been instrumental in promoting both renewable energy and traditional fossil fuels during his term. He calls Ritter a champion of a consortium among NREL and the three state research universities -- the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado -- examining renewable energy and the new energy economy. It has resulted in the research divisions of several solar and wind companies locating along Colorado's front range.
He says renewable energy has been a priority of the state during Ritter's term and he has made championing green energy and the new energy economy a priority. He says green energy has moved into the forefront of clean energy development.
Dr. Thomas Foust - National Bioenergy Center 2
(Conrad) Good morning and welcome to Farm Factor on AGam in Kansas. I'm your host Conrad Kabus. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL is located in Golden, Colorado. It is the United States primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is a government owned, contractor operated facility and it's funded through the United States Department of Energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has a number of PV research capabilities, including research and development testing and deployment. The laboratory's campus houses several facilities dedicated to PV research. A representative from the laboratory came to speak at the annual energy symposium at the Kansas State Student Union where he discussed future ideas and initiatives that could help with the industry.
NREL Overview
NREl were present at the Earth Day celebration at the CDPHE. Anyone can go visit the NREL Visitor's Center to learn more about what this agency is doing in terms or renewable energy. They're supported in part by the DOE. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed into law on February 17, 2009, includes $4.5 billion for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability with the Department Of Energy. Your taxes pay for this in part, so you have an investment in NREL and what they're doing. Visit and ask questions!
Public Support for Renewable Energy: Ian Baring-Gould, US National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This video was filmed on 9 October during the IRENA's Workshop on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, held at IRENA headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Ian Baring-Gould graduated with an MSME from the University of Massachusetts in 1995 and started working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Mr. Baring-Gould's work focuses on applications engineering for renewable energy technologies, assistance in renewable energy deployment, and educational outreach, primarily for wind.
Mr. Baring-Gould sits on the IEA taskforce for wind turbine operation in cold climates and is an editor for Wind Engineering. He is the Wind and Water Technology Deployment Manager at NREL and the National Technical Director of the Wind Powering America initiative. Through these efforts Mr. Baring-Gould assists organisations with deploying and addressing challenges to the implementation or renewable energy technology.
Discover Yourself at NREL: Mai-Anh Ha
At NREL, Mai-Anh Ha discovered herself as a mentor for the next generation of clean energy leaders. Discover yourself at NREL by visiting
Energy Systems Integration Facility Overview
The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) is located at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is the right tool, at the right time... a first-of-its-kind facility that addresses the challenges of large-scale integration of clean energy technologies into the energy systems that power the nation.
Peregrine at NREL
In this video from SC13, Matt Bidwell from NREL presents: Peregrine at NREL.
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NREL Research Participant Program
The mission of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is to lead the nation toward a clean energy future. To achieve this mission, NREL must gather and engage the finest talents for our energy programs. That's one reason NREL provides resources and opportunities for innovative research and thought leadership through our Research Participant Programs. Whether you choose to participate in energy efficiency and renewable energy research, our Energy Analysis or NREL's commercialization and deployment disciplines, you will find unique and impactful opportunities across the lab.
RSF Data Center Tour
The Data Center in the Research Support Facility on the campus of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) marks a significant accomplishment in its ultra-efficiency. Data centers by nature are very energy intensive. The RSF Data Center was designed to use 80% less energy than NREL's old data center, which had been in use for the last 30 years. This tour takes you through the data center highlighting its energy saving techniques.
2015 ACEC Colorado Awards: Martin/Martin - NREL Integration Facility
A Merit Award is being presented to Martin/Martin, Inc. for the “NREL Energy Systems Integration Facility” project.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL)'s Energy Systems Integration Facility project was born with a mission to become the nation’s first building to overcome the challenges of integrating renewable energy into the electrical grid at the speed and scale required to meet national goals. Engineers Martin/Martin engineered the design-build project with creative and unconventional, yet sustainable methods. Integrated functionality of complex systems as well as an integrated site design weaves seamlessly into the NREL campus, which was complex with challenges from site conditions to minimizing disruption to the existing environment.
NREL and Partners Support Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative
Jennifer DeCesaro, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Technology-to-Market Program, discusses how DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with the state of Hawaii, its largest utility, the inverter industry, and others to identify challenges and potential solutions to help the state reach it’s ambitious renewable energy goals.
Intro to NREL's Thermochemical Pilot Plant
NREL's Thermochemical Pilot Plant converts biomass into higher hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.NREL is researching biomass pyrolysis. The lab is examining how to upgrade bio-oils via stabilization. Along with this, NREL is developing the engineering system requirements for producing these fuels and chemicals at larger scales.
Secretary Moniz Speaks on New Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) at NREL
Secretary Moniz speaks in Colorado at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) on September 11, 2013 on the new Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). ESIF is the nation's first facility to help both public and private sector researchers scale-up clean energy technologies.
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2019 Open-Access ReEDS Model
ReEDS is NREL’s flagship capacity planning model for the North American electricity system. It simulates the evolution of the bulk power system (generation and transmission), from present day through 2050. ReEDS has been used extensively over the past 20 years to inform a wide range of power sector questions resulting in over 100 publications. With this release, the model is now available for use by those outside of NREL. In this video we will provide an overview of the ReEDS model, highlight how the model can be used, and answer questions.
NREL FUEL CELL PRESENTATION AND COLORADO HYDROGEN INTRODUCTION
August 2014 NREL Fuel Cell Presentation
Greening the Grid: Implementing Renewable Energy Zones
This webinar introduces the Renewable Energy Zones REZ approach, including the value of REZ to a power system; crucial components of the REZ process; technical approaches to defining REZs using geospatial analysis and case studies to highlight examples and key lessons for implementing REZ around the world.