Impacts

NREL water power research is advancing the hydropower and marine energy industries by developing new tools, data, and analysis to enable a resilient power grid.

NREL's Fiscal Year 2024 Water Power Achievements

Browse through notable highlights and successes in this annual NREL water power accomplishments report.

2024 Accomplishments

80+

Projects with industry, academia, other national labs, communities, and more

R&D organization partnerships

Peer-reviewed publications

$2.3M

Cash awards distributed across 5 prizes and competitions to 85 entrepreneurs and solvers

Meet NREL's Staff Advancing the Future of Water Power

Groundbreaking progress in hydropower and marine energy doesn’t happen on the surface—it’s powered by the people behind it. Meet them in our Beneath the Surface Q&A series.

Water Power Awards and Honors

Elise DeGeorge
2024 NREL Staff Award (for Outstanding Performance)

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Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024

Salman Husain
2023 Best Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Paper Award at the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering 2024 conference

Elise DeGeorge
2023 NREL Staff Award (for Community Service)

Paul Murdy
2023 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo Outstanding Technical Paper (for his paper titled Investigating Marine Environmental Degradation of Additive Manufacturing Materials for Renewable Energy Applications)

Nicole Mendoza, Rebecca Fao, Sahand Sabet, and Calum Kenny
Water Power Technologies Office Seedling and Sapling Program Awards (for seven hydropower and marine energy projects)

Educational Resource

Rendering of the Glades in the REDi Island App

Renewable Energy Discovery Island has more features. Explore the newly expanded NREL-developed app.

NREL Podcast

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Tune in to this episode of NREL's Transforming Energy podcast to learn how researchers are advancing marine energy technologies—right from land-locked Colorado—at NREL's cutting-edge Flatirons Campus.

Watch How NREL Is Transforming the Water Power Industry

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