R&D 100 Awards Honor NREL Innovations

R&D World magazine presented the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with two of its annual R&D 100 Awards for research innovations. Including this year’s winners, NREL has received 74 R&D 100 awards since 1982.

Given annually, the R&D 100 Awards honor the 100 most innovative technologies of the past year and are chosen by an independent panel of judges. WTWH Media LLC, the Cincinnati-based publisher that oversees the awards, announced the winning NREL technologies:

• The reV Model: Unmatched Wind and Solar Generation Detail at Scale
NREL’s open-source Renewable Energy Potential (reV) model provides unprecedented wind and solar generation detail at scale to inform future clean energy systems.

• Simulation and Emulation for Advanced Systems (SEAS): Bridging the Gap Between En-ergy Transition Planning and Implementation
NREL’s Simulation and Emulation for Advanced Systems (SEAS) is the only software that simulates and validates energy transmission and distribution solutions across the build-ings, transportation, and renewables sectors and the grid. SEAS lets you test “what if” scenarios to de-risk your options, helping you confidently move from planning to implementation.