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ContactThe National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Centers of Excellence advance applied research and technology solutions crucial for affordable, reliable, and secure energy. These centers are aligned with the Department of Energy's strategic goals and are designed to foster greater engagement with industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
Centers of Excellence
Coal
Morgantown, WV
Deliver integrated research & technology solutions that advance and expand the efficient use of coal resources in alignment with DOE priorities and industrial needs.
Oil & Gas
Pittsburgh, PA
Enable secure, efficient, and low-impact oil and gas systems through integrated research aligned with DOE priorities and industrial needs.
Strategic Goals and Objectives
Stabilize, optimize, and grow the American coal industry, restoring it as a cornerstone of our energy mix.
- Modernize and extend the life of our existing coal mines and coal-based power fleet.
- Optimize efficiencies across the extraction, capture, processing, and power generation value chain.
- Support the growth of coal-based power generation, and product manufacturing.
- Identify and support development opportunities for additional U.S. coal export capacity.
Ensure resilience of U.S. oil and natural gas production and infrastructure reliability.
- Increase the recovery factor in unconventional reservoirs.
- Lower the break-even cost of primary recovery operations.
- Increase efficiencies and reliability of midstream infrastructure.
- Develop advanced energy systems that provide low-cost baseload power and products.
Accelerate the discovery and development of gigawatt-scale geothermal energy and position geothermal as a competitive domestic source for reliable baseload electricity generation.
- Expand and improve resource characterization and advance the most economic opportunities for development.
- Drive innovations that accelerate new geothermal development and optimization.
- Modernize and extend the life of existing geothermal production.
- Pursue methods to use and maximize the value of geothermal for storage and enhancing grid reliability.
Uphold gold standard science and advance industry-aligned technologies to commercial-scale.
- Advance mission aligned applied research and technology solutions while serving as a resource to DOE as the only GOGO National Laboratory.
- Establish Centers of Excellence at each NETL campus aligned with key industry interests.
- Revolutionize mission delivery and business excellence leveraging advances in AI & data science.
- Attract, develop, and retain a world-class HGEO/NETL workforce.
- Enhance operational best practices to protect the health and safety of all laboratory personnel and the environment.