February 12, 2024 – To put it simply: Antora Energy, a Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NRELTM (GCxN) graduate, focused on decarbonizing industry by converting low-cost, intermittent renewable electricity into reliable industrial energy, would not be where it is today without the help of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
“We got our first thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells from NREL in 2018,” said Tarun Narayan, principal engineer at Antora. “Cells from NREL are among the most efficient TPV cells ever made. If we didn’t have NREL and we had to figure it out ourselves, we’d probably still be figuring it out.”