Unique New Prototype Brings NREL Collaborators Together

NREL.GOV — Often one innovation begets another. Take photovoltaics: the panels’ elegant tilt toward the sun leaves a sizable space behind them, especially if they are installed on a flat roof. That’s a lot of space, especially for design engineers whose job it is to...

NREL Supports Agtech Innovation Through IN²

NREL.GOV—Between research projects on agrivoltaics, sheep-friendly solar, and optimizing the energy-water nexus, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is increasingly connecting the dots between food and energy. Now as co-administrator for the Wells Fargo...

Beneath Solar Panels, the Seeds of Opportunity Sprout

NREL.GOV — On a humid, overcast day in central Minnesota, a dozen researchers crouch in the grass between rows of photovoltaic solar panels. Only their bright yellow hard hats are clearly visible above the tall, nearly overgrown prairie grasses—which are growing...