NETL has announced that the application window is open for the summer 2026 Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program, a paid 10-week summer internship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Applications are due by 5 p.m. EST Jan. 7, 2026. Access to the online application system is available here.

NETL, in its commitment to cultivating America’s next generation of scientists, is seeking students from around the country to apply to participate in the 2026 Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) summer program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

WASHINGTON—President Trump issued an Executive Order to launch the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort led by the Department of Energy. The Genesis Mission will transform American science and innovation through the power of artificial intelligence (AI), strengthening the nation’s technological leadership and global competitiveness. 

An NETL-led team secured first place in the engineering track of the Geothermal Energy from Oil and Gas Demonstrated Engineering (GEODE) Datathon for their development of the FlowDash Geothermal Energy Enhancer, a new machine learning (ML) tool that can reduce risks and costs for geothermal energy operations and enhance safety for neighboring communities.

NETL has released the latest version of its award-winning Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges (MFiX) — a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software suite designed to shorten the time and reduce the cost associated with developing new power generation technologies.

NETL is hosting 52 summer participants in four internship and fellowship programs at its research sites in Albany, Oregon; Morgantown, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Construction is underway on NETL’s Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Center in Morgantown, West Virginia — a state-of-the-art facility for advanced data and computing solutions related to applied energy challenges.

Access to data is essential for research and development. Higher quality data result in higher quality research, but when those data contain sensitive or proprietary information, they might be omitted from public products to protect sensitive locations, innovative plans and proprietary elements of important databases and analyses.

NETL researchers reached a high-performance computing (HPC) milestone, running advanced energy modeling code on the world’s first exascale supercomputer — a powerful new class of computing systems capable of ushering in a new era of precision, fidelity and reliability for simulation-based engineering.

A first-of-its-kind NETL research project involving the Bakken Shale has shown that a one-size-fits-all approach to understanding the subsurface and overcoming well site operational and water management challenges doesn’t necessarily apply. This is due to the often variable chemical and biological dynamics present at fossil fuel well sites.