Author: US Department of Energy

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. NREL’s Computing Capabilities Could Help Prevent Wildfires Caused by Fallen Power Lines Annually, tens of thousands of wildfires ravage the United States, posing significant threats to people, wildlife, and infrastructure. A percentage of those wildfires are caused by degraded or ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. NREL Brings Together Specialists From Across the Country To Discuss Cement and Concrete for Its Third Annual Critical Technologies Meeting Cement and concrete are essential to United States infrastructure, from our roadways to the buildings we occupy. Accounting for 50% of all ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Application Period Opens for Annual Marine Energy and Hydropower Competitions, Which Challenge College Students To Find Real-World Solutions and Explore Career Pathways Calling all student innovators looking to make waves in the water power sector! The application windows for the Hydropower ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Study Reveals Hybrid Plasmon-Polariton Resilience in Strongly Correlated Systems Electronics often use a subclass of materials called correlated materials because they exhibit unique electronic and magnetic properties. In these types of materials, the electrons interact with each other so intensely ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. More Than 50 Experts Gathered at NREL To Consider How Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Into Materials Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling Could Unlock New Insights and Speed New Technologies to Market Artificial intelligence (AI) could accelerate scientific discovery by helping researchers to ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Study Reveals the Potential of Magnon ‘Currents’ for Cutting-Edge Technologies A new study demonstrates how magnons, a type of wave found in magnetic systems, can manipulate interactions between excitons—uncharged “quasiparticles” that carry energy. This discovery provides insights for tuning exciton ... [continued]

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Argonne science supports resilient supply chains, American manufacturing. Argonne advances battery breakthroughs at every stage in the energy storage lifecycle, from discovering substitutes for critical materials to pioneering new real-world applications to making end-of-life recycling more cost effective. Best known ... [continued]

A University of Michigan-led team is using Argonne supercomputers to build massive foundation models that aim to revolutionize battery materials research.

Welcome to the Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science (MCCS) Early-Career Spotlight, a monthly feature showcasing NREL’s early-career researchers’ interests, motivations, and achievements. This month features Hilary Egan, who has been a data scientist at NREL since 2020. For Hilary Egan, a data scientist at NREL, a career in science was ... [continued]

Interconnection costs for distributed energy resources (DERs) like community solar are rising in many jurisdictions across the United States. Utility planning and implementation of electricity system upgrades in a piecemeal or serial fashion can cause inefficiencies that contribute to increased costs for interconnection customers and utility ratepayers. Lawrence Berkeley National ... [continued]