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July 2019
Greater Training and Education Needed To Meet Future Demand for U.S. Hydropower Workers
Expanded training and education programs are needed to meet future hydropower industry workforce needs, according to a new report produced jointly by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Center for the New Energy Economy.
June 2019
NREL Accelerates the Development of Wave Energy Water Desalination Technologies in New Prize Competition
The Waves to Water Prize invites competitors to help accelerate early-stage technologies through a series of contests. Participants will demonstrate small, modular, cost-competitive desalination systems that use the power of ocean waves to supplement existing technologies that can provide drinking water to remote and coastal communities.
April 2019
NREL Supports New Strategies to Accelerate PSH Development
NREL is supporting a new water prize to fund innovators who are working to address the non-regulatory challenges pumped-storage hydropower developers face when deploying new projects. The team aims to shorten commissioning times and reduce both risk and required up-front investments.
February 2019
News Release: NREL Emerging Markets Day Announces 2019 Presenting Start-up Companies
On May 8, investors, start-up companies, and industry leaders from around the world will convene in Denver, Colo., for the third Emerging Markets Day, a forum to discuss the most promising cleantech solutions to the pressing energy challenges faced by emerging economies.
News Release: NREL Industry Growth Forum Announces 2019 Presenting Start-Ups
The 30 companies were selected after a competitive application and review process from more than 150 applicants.
January 2019
New Substation Will Double Generating Capacity at National Wind Technology Center
This upgrade will enable megawatt-scale research that generates nearly twice that amount of power to occur at the same time--increasing opportunities for more grid-connected technologies, including solar panels, batteries, and additional wind turbines.
February 2018
New Wave Energy Converter Design Inspired by Wind Energy
NREL researchers took inspiration from the pitch control of wind turbine blades for a new wave energy converter design.
January 2018
Student-Designed Flume Arrives at NWTC
An NREL collaboration with the Colorado School of Mines stimulated an innovative water flume design.
September 2017
Wind and Wave Energy Pioneer Finds Freedom in Research
Research Fellow Bob Thresher likes to venture into the unknown, a quality that spurred his pioneering career at NREL.
June 2017
NREL Deploys Wave and Tidal Measurement Buoys
Researchers at the National Wind Technology Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently deployed two sets of buoys off the shores of Oregon and Maine, each equipped with a variety of high-accuracy sensors that can detect wave and tidal movement.
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