Accelerating Our Clean Energy Future
Through Research, Innovation, and Education

The NREL Foundation is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity that supports the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s clean energy mission and enables a broad set of activities and approaches by leveraging non-federal funding resources.

Established in 2021, the NREL Foundation serves as a bridge between NREL and donors. The foundation allows new partners and sources of capital to find ways to accelerate NREL’s clean energy mission and provides a more flexible operating platform for the laboratory.

By aggregating funding in the form of grants from disparate sources to support programs that are significant to NREL and the Department of Energy (DOE), the NREL Foundation fills a gap in the current advanced energy, cleantech ecosystem by serving as a force multiplier for NREL’s mission: to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, and renewable power technologies and provides the knowledge to integrate and optimize energy systems.

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