A joint venture between NREL and Xcel Energy is combining wind power and hydrogen power in the same way in Colorado.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ), located in Golden, Colorado, is the United States ' primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ) is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility ; it is funded through the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ).

Currently, NREL is managed for the DOE by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.

A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement ( CRADA ) is a partnership between NREL and an outside company.

A Shared-Resource CRADA is used to " develop, advance, or commercialize an NREL project, without money changing hands.

A specific example of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement ( CRADA ) is between NREL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) and the Ampulse Corporation to develop a less expensive silicon solar cell.

The goals of the photovoltaics ( PV ) research done at NREL are to decrease the “ nation's reliance on fossil-fuel generated electricity by lowering the cost of delivered electricity and improving the efficiency of PV modules and systems .” Photovoltaic research at NREL is performed under the National Center for Photovoltaics ( NCPV ).

NREL's PV Manufacturing Research and Development Project is an ongoing partnership between NREL and private sector solar manufacturing companies.

NREL is capable of providing an array of testing and evaluation capabilities to the PV industry with indoor, outdoor, and field testing facilities.

NREL is able to provide testing on long-term performance, reliability, and component failure for PV systems.

NREL is accredited by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) for primary reference cell and secondary module calibration.

The Device Performance group at NREL is able to measure the performance of PV cells and modules with regard to a standard or customized reference set.

One of the main buildings for PV research at NREL is the Solar Energy Research Facility ( SERF ).

The competition is presented by the U. S. Department of Energy and organized by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ).

NREL also performs research on photovoltaics ( PV ) under the National Center for Photovoltaics.

Prior successes include the NREL and SkyFuel partnership in the next generation of solar parabolic troughs, and also the partnership between NREL scientists, Ampulse Corporation, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL ) to create a less expensive alternative to wafer crystalline silicon solar cells.

NREL also has accelerated testing capabilities from both PV cells and system components to identify areas of potential long-term degradation and failure.

NREL also seeks to raise public awareness of PV technologies through its deployment services.

The NREL was designated a national laboratory of the U. S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) in September 1991 and its name changed to NREL.

" The development and progress of a Shared-Resource CRADA must fit within the scope of an existing NREL project already funded by the DOE.

In addition to market summaries, NREL and the DOE hold 457 patents under the heading of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

NREL ’ s Golden, Colorado campus houses several facilities dedicated to PV and biomass research.

The main research wind turbine s at NREL

* NREL Concentrating Solar Power Program Site

* Solar Position Calculators by National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL )

Established in 1974, NREL began operating in 1977 as the Solar Energy Research Institute.

At the Solar Radiation Research Laboratory, NREL has been measuring solar radiation and meteorological data since 1984.

NREL estimated that a kilogram of hydrogen ( roughly equivalent to a gallon of gasoline ) could be produced by wind powered electrolysis for between $ 5. 55 in the near term and $ 2. 27 in the long term.

* Trombe Walls -- NREL page extolling Trombe walls, with no reference to heat loss issues.

Other infiltration models have been developed elsewhere, including one by Deru and Burns at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ), for use in whole building energy simulation.

In 2009, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL ) and SkyFuel teamed to develop large curved sheets of metal that have the potential to be 30 % less expensive than today's best collectors of concentrated solar power by replacing glass-based models with a silver polymer sheet that has the same performance as the heavy glass mirrors, but at a much lower cost and much lower weight.

MIT and NREL researchers say dampers could be used to reduce motion in the event of a natural disaster.

MIT and NREL researchers plan to install a half-scale prototype south of Cape Cod.

NREL receives funding from Congress to be applied toward research and development projects.

NREL has a number of PV research capabilities including research and development, testing, and deployment.

In 2006 funding had dropped to the point that NREL was forced to lay off 32 workers, and in 2011 anticipated congressional budget shortfalls led to a voluntary buyout program for 100 to 150 staff reductions.

NREL works closely with a number of private partners to transfer technological developments in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies to the marketplace and social arena.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.