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The paths to clean energy are many. While some National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers were building wind turbines back in fifth grade, others followed a more circuitous route to the laboratory—coming from backgrounds in…

Just dropping by for a bit: Hoary bats like the one above sometimes migrate hundreds of miles each year and can be found in almost every U.S. state. Critical pollinators and pest control creatures, bats sometimes get struck by wind…

Digital rendering of wind turbines, solar panels, and large battery energy storage systems.Facing significant challenges accommodating increased distributed energy resources (DERs), the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) turned to…

NREL has released SAM 2020.11.29, the latest version of the System Advisor Model (SAM), free, publicly available modeling software for technical performance simulation and financial analysis of renewable energy projects. The latest…