A possible breakout moment for emerging technologies like storage and hydrogen

Both energy storage and hydrogen – critical emerging technologies for unlocking emissions reductions across energy systems – could become key beneficiaries of stimulus plans, much as solar PV and wind benefitted from boosts during recovery packages after the 2008 financial crisis. Read more

Lubbock, TX (March 2020)

HackWesTX, a hackathon event run by Texas Tech University’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, took place over the weekend of March 7^th. The event, which was held at the TTU Innovation Hub in Lubbock, TX, was sponsored by several companies local to Lubbock, including Group NIRE. Read more

Lubbock, TX (November 2019)

Group NIRE in partnership with Michigan Technological University and Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded the DOE – SETO Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS).

Michigan Technological University’s proposal titled “The Energizer Bunny: Dual-Use Photovoltaic and Pasture-Raised Rabbit Farms” has been granted funds by the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). Read more

LUBBOCK, TX (June 2019) 

Group NIRE’s team has developed an Energy Management system to monitor and control distributed energy resources (DERS) at their field site.

This system was created to assist in managing the Network Optimized Distributed Energy Resources (NODES) program that Group NIRE was awarded through ARPA-E in partnership with DNV GL. Read more

LUBBOCK, TX (May 2019)  Together with Texas Tech University and PowerAmerica, Group  NIRE has begun the research and development of a Wide Band Gap (WBG) dV/dt testbed. This testbed will increase the availability of dV/dt testing and will improve future testbeds for commercial use at the Group NIRE testing facility. This effort has been focused on pushing the limits of dV/dt testing in order to test these WBG devices at the extremes that they are capable of. Read more