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High throughput system can analyze enzymes, poplars, switch grass, thousands at a time to help determine which plants are best suited for biofuels.

The use of daylighting drives the size of the NREL's new super energy efficient Research Support Facility as well as the features of its windows.

Good-paying jobs in renewable energy are important to the nation's future and don't all require a college degree, high school students learn.

NREL biologists test revegetation and wildlife protection strategies at new solar power array at the National Wind Technology Center.

Recovery Act funding will be used to enhance battery testing equipment and facilities, helping NREL continue to support industry.

Buildings consume 40 percent of our nation's energy. NREL is testing and researching electrochromic windows that could knock that back significantly.

Thanks to a partnership with DOE and NREL, companies are getting the cash and expertise needed to jumpstart biofuels production scale-up.

NREL launches a new Internet site to allow organizations around the world to both post their own energy data and download data, for free.

DOE funds facilities to advance concentrating solar power technologies; global capacity could reach 20 gigawatts by 2020.

Excessive idling of trucks has been identified as a source of wasted fuel; NREL is working with the trucking industry to find big savings.

When NREL decided to build a new office building, the national lab turned to its experts to establish a new energy use benchmark. The lab's researchers knew what they wanted - the request for proposals included 780 pages of specifications. The resulting Research Support Facility sets the bar for energy efficiency standards and can be replicated nationwide.

NREL researchers are racing to come up with better and less expensive ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass. But they are hitting a wall - cell walls in plants that make the production of cellulosic fuels a challenge. So, laboratory scientists are creating their own computer program to help model and break down the tiny cellulose fibers found in plant cells.

That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states from Maine to Louisiana to Utah are closing the clean energy gap, confirming that every state has renewable energy potential.