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Broken solar panel

How do solar panels break? And how do we fix them?

At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, teams of scientists and researchers spend large parts of their day jumping on, twisting, smashing, and generally coming up with various ways of breaking solar panels.  It’s not malice, it’s not incompetence. It's not Read More...

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Real-time experiment shows efficacy of renewable grids during blackouts

Last summer, we wrote about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. The facility is a collection of green energy experiments, including wind power, solar panels, and hydrogen energy storage. The goal of NREL is to demonstrate how the US could create truly scaled and Read More...

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This lab is preparing the US for the transition to a renewable grid

The ever-growing collection of renewable energy technologies will transform our energy systems to be greener and more reliable, but updating our electricity grid to support renewable energy is no easy feat. It means overhauling and improving infrastructure throughout the entire country. This Read More...