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LUBBOCK, TX (May 9, 2017) – The Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM) has deployed a solar array at the Reese Technology Center to help students understand the relationship between solar energy and battery storage.
“Understanding this relationship will prepare students for the workforce as the electric grid becomes increasingly modernized,” Group NIRE CEO Mark Harral said. Read more
LUBBOCK, TX (January 31, 2017) – Energy Storage Systems is scheduled to test their breakthrough 400kWH Iron Flow Battery (IFB) this fall at Group NIRE’s facility.
Energy Storage Systems (ESS, Inc.) was launched in 2011 by a team with deep experience in fuel cells, electrochemistry, advanced material science, and renewable energy. Read more
LUBBOCK, TX (September 22, 2016) – Herold, a startup company founded by Texas Tech University and Group NIRE has won $100,000 in funding at the 2016 GLEAMM Challenge in Lubbock, TX.
The Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM) Challenge is an energy technology competition where innovative Texas Tech University students, faculty and staff showcase their world-changing ideas to compete for funding. Read more
LUBBOCK, TX (September 1, 2016) – Texas Tech University and Group NIRE have partnered to create an energy weather forecasting application called Herold.
Herold uses state-of-the-art, high resolution spacing to provide customers in both the energy and agriculture industry with extremely detailed forecasts. What sets Herold apart is the spacing in which its forecasts are made. Read more
Contact: Michael Kleinberg, Senior Consultant, DNV GL
As part of the recently announced DOE ARPA-E NODES program, DNV-GL, along with their partners, Group NIRE and Geli (Growing Energy Labs, Inc.), will develop and operate an Internet of Energy (IoEn) platform for the coordinated operation of distributed energy resources (DER).
LUBBOCK, TX (January 12, 2016) – Texas Tech University and Group NIRE have been funded by the Department of Homeland Security over the next two years to train homeland security professionals through a workforce development program. The program will be directed at rural and small urban communities, as well as the underserved Hispanic population. Read more