New energy storage research from NREL, a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, has demonstrated a way to store and ...

Closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems rank as having the lowest potential to add to the problem of global warming for energy storage when accounting for the full impacts of materials and ...

Four-plus-hour energy storage accounts for less than 10% of the cumulative 9 GW of energy storage deployed in the United States in the 2010-22 period. However, this type of technology is likely to ...

The average closed-loop pump storage hydropower facility was assumed to have storage capacity of 835 MW and an average estimated 2,060 GWh of stored energy delivered annually.

PSH is the biggest source of grid-scale energy storage capacity in the United States, accounting for around 96% in 2022, according to the US Department of Energy. But NREL said few new pumped ...

"This in-house, high-resolution imaging allows us to inspect specific degradation types that exist in end-of-life battery materials," said NREL's Donal Finegan, a senior energy storage scientist.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is commissioning the first CellCube vanadium flow energy storage system in North America. The Colorado lab plans ...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $150 million investment in the National Renewal Energy Labs in Golden on Monday during the dedication of a new research laboratory intended to help the cou… ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaks with the media during his visit to the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) campus in Golden, Colorado, on April 3, 2025.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) has announced a new competition designed to support the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the nation’s power grid. Energy Secretary Jennifer ...

The hydrogen fuel storage solution, as part of the collaboration between HON and NREL, can cater to the longer-duration, high-payload challenges where battery-powered electric UAVs currently lag.