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Shave and a rate cut: How solar + storage solutions...

Shaving the peaks off commercial and industrial (C&I) electric bills is the top revenue stream for energy storage systems, and given the...

July 23, 2018
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Assess solar + storage’s value in terms of facility resilience

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) updated its publicly available online solar+storage optimization tool, REopt Lite, whic...

June 27, 2018
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Install Inequality: Nearly half of U.S. residential rooftop solar potential...

One of the largest barriers to solar adoption on a wide scale is the wealth gap, and it will require more problem-solving than a mandate to ...

June 18, 2018
News solar low income incentives
Solar wealth gap: New reports show size of low-income solar...

Something that’s not talked about enough: one of the largest barriers to solar adoption and a game-changing move into a distributed ge...

April 23, 2018
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NREL update: The puzzle of scaling perovskite solar cells (and...

As perovskite solar cells set efficiency records and the nascent technology becomes more stable, another major challenge remains: the issue ...

April 16, 2018
News RdTools
NREL promotes new solar tool to accurately calculate PV module...

How long a product can be expected to perform at a high level is a fundamental indication of quality and durability. In the solar industry, ...

April 11, 2018
News perovskite solar cells
NREL researchers prove perovskite solar cells more stable than previously...

Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunl...

February 5, 2018
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Perovskite breakthrough: NREL gains new insight into how the cells...

Perovskite solar cells are the most tantalizing research category in the solar industry because of their efficiency and versatility, bu...

January 25, 2018
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Eaton, NREL team up on new power management research

To expedite research and commercialization of new energy-related technologies, power management company Eaton and the U.S. Department of Ene...

January 23, 2018
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The ‘Carportunity’: How our electric vehicle future means big things...

Electric vehicles taking over the road is no longer a question. Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and all-electric vehicles have sur...

December 19, 2017
News NREL solar window
NREL labs demo a high-efficiency solar window that tints

Thermochromic windows capable of converting sunlight into electricity at a high efficiency have been developed by scientists at the U.S. Dep...

November 28, 2017
News NREL microlink
Details on new multijunction solar cell developed by NREL that’s...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into a license agreement with MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, IL) to commerciali...

October 30, 2017
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Module Evolution: What big-time PV improvements will boost panel efficiency?

The solar industry is forever in need of constant innovation and scientific breakthrough. Even now, with PV capacity reaching record highs, ...

October 2, 2017
News solar system costs
Solar system costs continued to fall across all sectors in...

The installed cost of solar power fell to record lows in the first quarter of 2017 because of the continuing decline in photovoltaic (PV) mo...

September 18, 2017
News solar power stats
Three ways solar energy is being underrated (and why this...

The solar industry always seems to be on the defensive politically, needing to constantly prove its worth on the grid compared to other elec...

September 6, 2017
News Pena station panasonic solar project
Renewable energy project in Colorado draws interest from Department of...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with Panasonic Corporation and Xcel En...

July 24, 2017
News perovskite solar cell
NREL improves Perovskite thin-film solar cell production scalability

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed a new perovskite ink with a ...

May 16, 2017
News solar system pricing
Large solar installers offer higher PV system quotes than average,...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) looked at the PV installer landscape of the country to glean information on how installer si...

April 26, 2017
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SMA system selected for pilot storage program at NREL facility

Renewable Energy Systems (RES) will utilize SMA technology for a 1 MW battery pilot project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nationa...

April 19, 2017
News NREL thin film module
PV breakthrough: Thin-film solar cells can now be mapped in...

Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they’re relatively inexpensive an...

November 17, 2016
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