NREL's Science & Technology Development

Research Areas

• Advanced Vehicles & Fuels
  • Advanced Heavy Hybrid Propulsion Systems
  • Advanced Petroleum Based Fuels
  • Energy Storage
  • Fleet Test & Evaluation
  • Fuel Cells & Hydrogen
  • Hybrid Electric & Fuel Cell Vehicles
  • Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Forum
  • New Fuels Technology Impacts
  • Nonpetroleum-Based Fuels
  • Power Electronics
  • ReFUEL Laboratory
  • Regulatory Support
  • Vehicle Ancillary Loads Reduction
  • Vehicle Systems Analysis
• Basic Sciences
• Biomass
• Buildings
  • SUNREL Energy Simulation Software
• Computational Sciences
• Concentrating Solar Power
  • TroughNet
• Electric Infrastructure Systems
  • Distributed Thermal Energy Technologies
• Energy Analysis
• Geothermal
• Hydrogen & Fuel Cells
• Life-Cycle Inventory Database
• Renewable Resource Maps and Data
  • Geographical Information System (GIS)
  • Measurement and Instrumentation Data Center (MIDC)
  • Renewable Resource Data Center (RReDC)
  • Solar Radiation Research Laboratory (SRRL)
• Photovoltaics
  • Building-Integrated PV Project
  • Electronic Materials and Devices
  • High-Performance Photovoltaics Project
  • Measurements and Characterization
  • Performance and Reliability
  • PV Manufacturing R&D Project
  • Silicon Materials and Devices
  • Systems Engineering
  • Thin-Film Partnership
• Wind
  • Wind Systems Integration

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• Research and Business Opportunities
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