With DER management systems (DERMS), utilities can apply the capabilities of flexible demand-side energy resources and manage diverse and dispersed DERs, both individually and in aggregate.
NLR has developed a cyber-physical test bed to investigate the complex interactions among emerging microgrid technologies such as grid-interactive power sources, control systems, and communication platforms and bandwidths.
Newly published data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign, reveal that solar accounted for over 75% of US electrical generating capacity added in the first nine months of 2025.
National Solar is a world leader in the origination, design, construction, financing and operation of renewable energy systems for the utility energy marketplace.
wind and utility-scale solar projects generated a record 17% of U. electricity in 2025—an enormous jump from their share of less than 1% in 2005 (Energy Information Administration).
This map provides information about all of the solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facilities in the United States and how they contribute to the solar supply chain.
NLR maintains a chart of the highest confirmed conversion efficiencies for research cells for a range of photovoltaic technologies, plotted from 1976 to the present.
This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at www. Cole, Wesley and Akash Karmakar. Cost Projections for Utility-Scale Battery Storage: 2023 Update.