About NETL-IAES

Welcome to the National Energy Technology Laboratory – Institute for Advanced Energy Solutions (NETL-IAES). On behalf of our many colleagues and students who form the Institute, we would like to express our appreciation for your interest in the NETL-IAES and its programs. The NETL-IAES has been formed as a partnership between the US-DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), the West Virginia University (WVU), Penn State University (PSU) and Virginia Tech (VT). The following pages provide a detailed overview of the Institute’s objectives, its research programs, personnel, achievements, facilities and various energy related activities.

The objective of the NETL-IAES is to foster a research and development program that leads the evolution of the US and global energy infrastructure into a sustainable and secure enterprise that will underpin human civilization on Earth into the unforeseeable future. Energy underpins the continued improvement of the standard and quality of human life. The development and management of our energy resources will be critical to human civilization in whatever form it exists, for as long as it exists. In that light, the fossil energy basis on which we now rely is a stepping stone; a resource to enable the development of an energy infrastructure that is sustainable over hundreds of millennia. The initial research portfolio of the NETL-IAES is one that advocates the safe, efficient and rational use of our fossil energy resources as the stepping stone to the development of an indefinitely sustainable energy infrastructure.

The NETL-IAES initialy formed as a partnership between NETL, CMU, Pitt and WVU. Over the period 2005-2006 the NETL provided ~$10M in funding for energy related research activities at all three institutions through its support contract with Research & Development Solutions, Inc. (RDS). In 2007, the three universities formed the CWP Corp., LLC as an entity to foster collaboration between their faculties and to serve as the focal point for their collective initiatives in all aspects of energy research. In 2009, PSU and VT joined our Institute. These activities have evolved into the formation of the NETL-IAES, an NETL-based research institute with a core staff of ~40 faculty members and ~160 PhD students and postdocs and funding of ~$12M /yr. Approximately 50 additional faculty members and their students collaborate with NETL-IAES faculty or directly with NETL research scientists based at the NETL sites in Pittsburgh, PA; Morgantown, WV; Albany, OR; and Fairbanks, AK. All university personnel are affiliated with the NETL through the IAES.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the members and the programs of the NETL-IAES described on the following pages. We wish to explore all opportunities for growth of the NETL-IAES research programs and their expansion into new fields. This research portfolio is the platform for the broader research agenda that will lead an the indefinitely sustainable energy infrastructure that can support immediate US energy needs and meet the future needs of human civilization on Earth.