A longstanding federal analysis laboratory supporting nationwide renewable vitality deployment has laid off greater than 100 individuals for the second time in lower than a yr. The Nationwide Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) reportedly laid off 134 individuals this week.
An aerial view of NREL’s South Desk Mountain Campus outdoors Golden, Colorado. Photograph by Joshua Bauer, NREL.
This newest spherical of layoffs comes 9 months after another 114 employees had been reduce from the lab in Golden, Colorado, affecting NRL’s analysis and operations departments, as reported by CBS Information.
The analysis heart was based in 1974 because the Photo voltaic Vitality Analysis Institute, then later renamed because the Nationwide Renewable Vitality Laboratory. The Trump administration’s Dept. of Vitality once more renamed it to NLR in December, which occurred one month after the DOE removed or replaced a number of workplaces with missions of decarbonization, together with the Workplace of Vitality Effectivity and Renewable Vitality.
NLR has been liable for many initiatives and analysis tasks supporting renewable vitality deployment in the US. The lab additionally hosts the Nationwide Middle for Photovoltaics. Colorado Public Radio reported that an NRL spokesperson attributed the layoffs to “projected funding ranges” and matching new priorities underneath the present DOE.
Photo voltaic Energy World has left a voicemail with NRL and is awaiting additional remark.
