History was made this year at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Industry Growth Forum (IGF), and not only because it celebrated the 30th anniversary of the event. The IGF also reached a record high number for attendance: more than 1,000 people
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The Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN), a multimillion-dollar, multiyear program developed in collaboration between Shell GameChanger and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), selected Cleantech Open and BRITE Energy Innovators as recipients of its inaugural Channel Partner Strategic Awards.
NREL – November 14, 2024 – Gathering in Avon, Colorado, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) held the NREL Innovation Showcase on Oct. 15, 2024, to bring together cleantech and climate-tech entrepreneurs, industry experts, investors, and NREL researchers around the theme “Demand Matters.”
NREL – October 1, 2024 – While reading papers describing the use of enzymes to transform materials into biofuels as an alternative to using microbes, NREL research group leader Yannick Bomble first came across the eventual founders of Invizyne.
NREL – August 21, 2024 – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Research Group Manager Dan Schell says he gets to do the fun part.
“I get to use a big piece of equipment and turn wood into very small particles with continuous explosions,” Schell said.
NREL – Jul 2, 2024 – Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to the Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN) after admiring the program from afar for several years.
NREL – February 12, 2024 –To put it simply: Antora Energy, a Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL™ (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).
NREL – December 5, 2023 – The themes from Cohort 6 move GCxN into technical areas it has not explored in prior cohorts, piecing together different expertise from across the laboratory in ways that are industry relevant.
Denver and Houston – October 17, 2023 – Shell GameChanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL (GCxN) Announces Participants for Sixth Cohort: GCxN will support technology advancement for selected companies working on carbon-negative materials and biological energy and chemical products.
